BHCLA Newsletter Issue 005: Spring Equinox & New Beginnings

As Spring continues to emerge and the earth blossoms around us, the time for celebration and remembrance has come once again! The 6th Annual Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture will happen […]


BHCLA Newsletter Issue 004: Winter Refuge

As the weather vacillates between the vestiges of winter and the beginnings of spring, we have begun 2026 on a high note! Last month’s Helena Hicks Speaker Series featured our […]


BHCLA Newsletter Issue 003: Welcome Back!

Happy New Year and Happy Black History Month! We are so excited to kickoff our Spring semester of programming with February being jam-packed of exciting events here in Baltimore and […]


BHCLA Newsletter Issue 002: Season’s Greetings!

We hope this second edition of our newsletter finds you well and in high spirits as we enter into the 2025 holiday season. On the evening of Wednesday, October 8th […]


Welcome to the BHCLA Newsletter!

It is with great enthusiasm that I share this first edition of the BHCLA Newsletter! Founded in 2017 by Dr. Lawrence Jackson, The Billie Holiday Center for the Liberation Arts […]


February 12th Helena Hicks Speaker Series & Black Culture Builders of Baltimore Coworking – RESCHEDULED

Due to inclement weather, we will be rescheduling our February Helena Hicks Speaker Series & Black Culture Builders Coworking Session to Wednesday, February 26th. More details will follow in the coming weeks. Please […]


David Mills: Boneyarn – Photo Collage (11/20/2024)

Bird in Hand is honored to host this public event with David Mills and Aja Lans, which is a collaboration between the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger […]


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 […]