{"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":"2026-05-06T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:27:06","slug":"helena-hicks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/billie-holiday\/events\/helena-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Hicks Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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RSVP \u2192<\/a><\/strong>Helena Hicks Speaker Series<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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The Helena Hicks Speaker Series brings the topics, questions, and methods of Black Studies out of the \u201cIvory Tower\u201d and into the places of its origin \u2013 the community schools, organizations, cultural centers and houses of worship that nurtured 20th-century black social movements. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The series was named in honor of civil rights activist Helena Hicks<\/a>, a veteran of Baltimore’s earliest anti-segregation sit-ins of the 1950s. While a student of Morgan State University, Ms. Hicks entered the then-segregated Read\u2019s Drug store in Baltimore with a group of classmates – actions that would lead to the desegregation of the drug store chain a few months later.\u00a0Please click here <\/a>to listen to Helena Hicks on Maryland Morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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