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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 city […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
This year’s tribute concert to Billie Holiday moves online
By JAE CHOI | September 29, 2020 The Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts (BHPLA) and Hopkins at Home hosted “Baltimore’s Billie Holiday: A Musical Tribute to Lady Day” on Saturday, Sept. […]
Writer, historian Lawrence Jackson named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins
Hub staff report / Published Feb 6, 2017 For writer and historian Lawrence Jackson, joining Johns Hopkins University was an appealing homecoming for several reasons. Beyond the emotional resonance of Baltimore—Jackson grew up here, […]