{"id":293,"date":"2019-04-11T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday-project\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2024-10-10T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T19:53:10","slug":"helena-hicks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday\/events\/helena-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Hicks Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Professor Lawrence Jackson (left) and Ms. Helena Hicks (right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Helena Hicks Emancipation School at Baltimore\u2019s Historic African American Churches is a public program partnership of the Billie Holiday Center and several faith communities in West Baltimore. The monthly speaker series endeavors to bridge the intellectual life of Johns Hopkins University with historic Baltimore neighborhoods and cultural institutions. It highlights African American scholars at Johns Hopkins whose recently published books explore questions of race, culture, history, inequality, and social change in the U.S., from the era of enslavement to the present. The series was named in honor of civil rights activist Helena Hicks, a veteran of Baltimore’s earliest anti-segregation sit-ins of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n