MAY 9, 2022

Actress, playwright, teacher, and author Anna Deavere Smith headlined our 2022 Donald Bentley Distinguished Memorial Lecture at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Special thanks to our event partners and community co-sponsors: BMA, Beloved Community Services, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, JHU Center for Africana Studies, and the Departments of English and History. Following the keynote, BHCLA Founding Director Lawrence Jackson engaged Ms. Smith in a lively dialogue about growing up Black in Baltimore.