About fifty commemorators convened in a prayerful mood in the courtyard of the Carroll Mansion on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University in the early afternoon of January 22, […]
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Race, Inequality & Wealth mini course with Vesla Weaver
On December 16th at 6:30 p.m. at Union Baptist Church (1219 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore), Professor Vesla Weaver (Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology) will present the […]
Billie Holiday Project Mural Celebrates Legacy of Elijah Cummings
“Never let anyone define you.” It was a favorite phrase of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, who died a year ago, and it is now immortalized in a mural celebrating the […]
Helena Hicks Speakers Series | Sunday, Sep 22, 2019 | 3-4:30 p.m.
Featured Speaker for the month of September: Robbie Shilliam, Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University. About the Lecture: “Thinking Through Fascism Today by Looking to the Past: From Mussolini’s […]
“BILLIE HOLIDAY JAZZ CONCERT” September 7, 2019
Saturday, September 7, 2019 | 2PM-6PM | Lafayette Square Park, Corner of W Lafayette and N Arlington, Baltimore, MD FREE Concert in the Park! Performances by:Nasar Abadey(Artistic Director/ Percussion)Sheila Ford […]
Chicago Humanities Festival: Baltimore’s Billie Holiday–A Life in Maps
November 2, 2018 6pm 500 N. Dearborn Suite 825 Lawrence Jackson—a writer, historian, and Johns Hopkins professor who specializes in recasting the study of modern African-American literature and culture—has a […]
“Unpacking Hateful Things and Contemporary Practices”
Reginald F. Lewis Museum September 22, 2018 1pm Lawrence Jackson, Martha S. Jones, Rob Lieberman, Verna Myers, moderator Lester Spence
Morgan State University Ford-Turpin Award Lecture
Bloomberg Distinguished Research Professor Lawrence Jackson delivers the annual Ford-Turpin Lecture at Morgan State University October 26, 2017
Black Arts Archives Panel
On Friday afternoon, September 29, we hosted the panel “Archiving the Black Arts Movement and Beyond” in Gilman Hall 50, beginning at 4:30pm. The panel featured Sonia Sanchez, Keith Gilyard, […]