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 […]
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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
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 to speak at inaugural Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Professor Larry Jackson joins JHU committee on naming buildings and programs
Professor and BHPLA founder Larry Jackson has been named a co-chair to the Johns Hopkins Committee to Establish Principles on Naming. The committee is working to develop institutional-level procedures for evaluating […]
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. […]
2nd Annual Billie Holiday Tribute Jazz Concert: A Livestream Event | Saturday, September 19, 2020 | 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.
Join us for a live concert honoring the life and musical legacy of jazz legend Billie Holiday. The 60-minute performance will feature renowned vocalist Maimouna Youssef a.k.a “Mumu Fresh”, accompanied by a […]