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 […]
On November 18th at 6:30 p.m. at Union Baptist Church (1219 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore), Dr. Minkah Makalani (Associate Professor and Director of the JHU Center for Africana Studies) will […]
The JHU Billie Holiday Center’s signature community education series returns this Fall with three scholarly lectures at historic African American churches in West Baltimore. The Helena Hicks Emancipation School (previously […]
The 2021 Billie Holiday Jazz at Lafayette Square was a great success. Hundreds of community members, faculty, and staff attended to hear live music, spoken word, and other performances. Speakers […]
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter covered the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts’ third annual “Jazz in the Square” event on Sept. 11. The concert, held at Lafayette Square Park, featured […]
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 […]
Author, editor, East Baltimore native, and Johns Hopkins School of Education alum D. Watkins talks about his evolution as a writer, learning to interview celebrities, and why he’s probably not […]
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 […]
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and […]
BHPLA supported the 2020 Kwanzaa holiday with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, and the Eubie Blake Cultural Center. One day of events included […]
