This semester begins the new JHU-UBalt Community Archives Program, a partnership between The University of Baltimore’s Special Collections and Archives of the Robert L. Bogomolny Library and the Johns Hopkins University’s Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts (BHPLA), which is supported by Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation.

Funded by a $4.4 million Just Futures grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Inheritance Baltimore (IB) is a reparations program for humanities education and arts-based public engagement in Black Baltimore. It is composed of three Johns Hopkins University units: the Billie Holiday Project for Liberations Arts, the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, and the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections.

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