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 […]
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 […]
Save the date! The first annual Billie Holiday Jazz Concert will be held Saturday, Sept. 7 from 2 – 6 p.m. in Lafayette Square.
On May 13 at noon, the Billie Holiday Project will host a luncheon at the George Peabody Library, honoring some of Baltimore City’s most promising young scholars.
The Billie Holiday Project is pleased to kick-off the first in a series of community-engaged lectures at historic African American churches in West Baltimore. The first Helena Hicks lecture will be held at 1 p.m. on April 28 at St. James Episcopal Church.
April 10, 2019 – BHPLA Director Lawrence Jackson has been named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of General Nonfiction. The Guggenheim Fellowship will support Jackson’s development of a […]
April 6, 2019 – 7:00pm, Motor House Lawrence Jackson presented a public lecture at Motor House in conjunction with several events celebrating the life and music of jazz singer Billie Holiday. […]
January 10, 2019 – 6:00pm, The George Peabody Library Join Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson as he chronicles the time Frederick Douglass spent in Maryland, before making his escape north. […]
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 […]
Reginald F. Lewis Museum September 22, 2018 1pm Lawrence Jackson, Martha S. Jones, Rob Lieberman, Verna Myers, moderator Lester Spence
