Washington, DC, Join us at the Historic Lincoln Theater on Friday, February 28, 2025, from 5pm to midnight for the 9th Annual DC Black History Film Festival presented by Fulton Films and the DC Commission on the Arts.
Come see a special dance performance by the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at 6:45pm and sit back at 7pm for our 5-hour Black History filmathon as we screen 12 films, representing a wide array of African American stories.
From the short on James Fields one of the first students of Hampton University, to the doc on the the DC Maya Angelou Schools, to the film on those who drove the Green Book across America, to the story of Paul Laurence Dunbar, to the short on How to Sue the Klan or the story on the history of the Black American vote, the 2025 line up offers a wide range remarkable stories of important people and places who have helped shape modern America.