The JHU Billie Holiday Center’s signature community education series returns this Fall with three scholarly lectures at historic African American churches in West Baltimore. The Helena Hicks Emancipation School (previously the Helena Hicks Speaker Series), honors Baltimore’s living legend Helena Hicks, who as a Morgan State University student led the 1955 sit-in movement at Read’s Drugstore. The fall lecture series features 40-minute presentations from the Johns Hopkins faculty. These lectures are digests of standing courses, manicured for our event. Read more…