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.
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BHPLA Director Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
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 […]
Billie Holiday Celebration at Motor House
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. […]
Mapping Frederick Douglass and Maryland, From the Hackerman Map Collection
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. […]
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
2018-2019 News & Events
Join the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts at many events scheduled in 2018.
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
Mapping Frederick Douglass
The Special Collections Research Center & Digital Diversity Series Present, "Mapping Frederick Douglass," with Lawrence Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of History and English and Jim Gillispie, GIS Librarian and Curator of Maps. Join us 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 19 in Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043.
Author Talks @ the Lewis
On Saturday, Oct. 14 at 1 p.m., author Lawrence P. Jackson will discuss his latest book, Chester B. Hines: A Biography, which explores Himes' writings including his Harlem detective series featuring black NYPD detectives: Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.