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...
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Lawrence Jackson’s The Washington Post story: “A Black professor in Baltimore, bridging two worlds”
MAY 17, 2022 By Michael A. Fletcher Baltimore’s hardscrabble Park Heights neighborhood is maybe five miles from stately Homeland, but when it comes to lived reality it is a world away. The same could be said of Brooklyn’s Brownsville and Park Slope, Washington’s Congress Heights and Capitol Hill, and countless other neighborhoods in countless American...
“Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore”, Book Launch Party celebrating Professor Lawrence P. Jackson
APRIL 24, 2022 April 24 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm A book reading, signing, and meet & greet celebrating Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence P. Jackson’s latest manuscript, Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore (Greywolf, 344 p.). Shelter is a probing portrait of the misunderstood city of Baltimore by a returning native son. In resonant prose, Jackson ably conveys the feuding aspirations...
LAWRENCE JACKSON ON TOUR FOR SHELTER: A BLACK TALE OF HOMELAND, BALTIMORE
On sale April 19, 2022 4/21 @ 6:30 PM ET: Brooklyn Public Library w/ Nelson George (virtual) 4/22 @ 6:30 PM ET: Baltimore Museum of Art w/ Anna Deavere Smith (in person) (LARRY asked not to include this event as part of the book tour) 4/24 @ 3:00 PM ET: Eubie Blake National Jazz and Cultural...
Billie Holiday Project featured in Wesleyan University Magazine
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 The fall issue of Wesleyan University Magazine featured the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and Professor Lawrence Jackson in “Transforming the ‘Black Butterfly’.” In the article, Dr. Jackson discusses the roots of the project and its progress, the history of racism and segregation in Baltimore, and the specific challenges of growing up in...