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Jazz musicians celebrate the life and music of Billie Holiday

Written By MICHELLE LIMPE and REBECCA MURATORE | September 18, 2021 | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter With the legendary impact left behind by jazz singer Billie Holiday, it is only fitting that her native […]

UBalt, Hopkins Community Archives Program Now Underway

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 […]

JUNETEENTH – The art of liberation | HUB

Bret McCabe | June 16, 2021 Veteran journalist, poet, and musician John Milton Wesley didn’t know about Juneteenth when he first moved to Baltimore in the late 1970s. During a 2017 […]

Johns Hopkins Day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum features virtual tours, activities

Hub staff report |  Published Apr 30, 2021 The annual Johns Hopkins Day at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum will take place in a new virtual format this year, featuring digital […]

Symposium II: Africana Collections and Cultural Programs in Baltimore

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June 3 – 4, 2021, Online: The Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University will host a two-day symposium to define the collections, collecting […]

D. Watkins Writes Baltimore

Bret McCabe / Published Apr 20, 2021 Author D. Watkins explores the difference between writing about Baltimore and writing as somebody from Baltimore in the inaugural Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture for the Johns Hopkins Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts on […]

D. Watkins to speak at inaugural Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture

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This year’s inaugural speaker, Baltimore native D. Watkins, is a celebrated author, social critic and editor-at-large at Salon. His speech will center on “Writing Baltimore: A Personal Journey of Lived […]

BHPLA and other programs win $4.4 Million Mellon Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and […]

Mellon Foundation awards $4 million grant to Inheritance Baltimore project

Doug Donovan / Published Jan 14, 2021 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic […]

‘Just Futures’

Mellon Foundation gives $72 million in grants of up to $5 million each for humanities-focused projects addressing issues of racial justice. Read more on Inside Higher Ed.