Media Coverage of Walk of Remembrance | The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism

Building on the January 2022 Ritual of Remembrance, the first Walk of Remembrance, co-organized by RIC Postdoctoral Fellow Jasmine Blanks Jones and Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts Community Arts Fellow Jeneanne Collins, received excellent media coverage, linked below.

This community gathering featured a monologue performance by JHU sophomore Yasmine Bolden, a tap dance performance by Brinae Ali, Inheritance Baltimore artist in residence, and an address by Charlie Dugger, Inheritance Baltimore elder in residence. There were also two interactive art installations led by Jeneanne Collins, Inheritance Baltimore community arts fellow.

Please check out the coverage:

Helen Lacey, “Walk of Remembrance Honors People Enslaved on Homewood Campus” JHU News-Letter, October 18, 2022
Martha S. Jones, “Seeing Old Baltimore Anew: Whose Memories Are We Keeping, and For Whom?” Hard Histories, October 19, 2022

Black woman in red shirt and blue jeans speaks into microphone in front of Black man holding drum

Jasmine Blanks Jones introduces Walk of Remembrance

Woman in gray jacket places white sheet of paper with name of enslaved person on red, green, and black flag draped over plinth — Installation of names of enslaved people who lived on the present-day Homewood campus at Harriet Tubman Grove

Elder Black man with gray beard in gold and maroon shirt speaks into microphone — Elder Dugger addresses crowd at Walk of Remembrance

Black woman with sparkly jacket and dress over jeans tap dances in front of decorated plinth — Brinae Ali tap dances at conclusion of Walk of Remembrance

All photos above by Will Kirk