This month, join us for a conversation with Maximize Good about race and racism within the non-profit and foundation sectors. The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is produced and hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly (more…)

Driven initially by Cold War angst and meteorological forecasting in the early 1960s, satellite imagery has since become a staple of modernity. In the past decade or so, imagery from a variety of overhead and other high-tech sensors has become available to non-government end users. And some, including John Amos and Paul Woods, partners in (more…)

Join Dr. Allistair Abraham as he discusses sickle cell disease experience performing bone marrow transplants – the only known cure for sickle cell disease – at Children?s National Medical Center. Sickle cell disease is a hereditary blood disorder that is painful and prevalent in DC. Learn what you can do to help advance care, research, and support for people (more…)

Private lunch in Robeson Room. To plan an event at Busboys and Poets, please click here .  (more…)

A Special Edition of ACTOR: Conversation with Tony Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang about his new play, Yellow Face.  Other esteemed panelists will include:Deepa Iyer SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together)Ethelbert MillerPoet, Educator, Literary Activist More information about the play here. The lines between truth and fiction blur with hilarious and moving results in David Henry Hwang’s unreliable (more…)