Join us for a discussion on the Birth of Baltimore Jazz with Lawrence Jackson, the director of the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts. The event begins at 5:45 with a wine reception featuring the Peabody Graduate Jazz Ensemble in the Eubie Blake Center Garden, and the talk begins at 6:30 p.m.

The Helena Hicks Speaker Series honors Helena Hicks, the foremother of the student-led movement for the Civil Rights in Baltimore City.