During this moment of national reckoning around issues of race, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Industry invite you to this joint panel discussion where we’ll examine workplace race, equity and inclusion initiatives in Baltimore. Registration is required; $5 for non-member/free for Reginald F. Lewis Museum or Baltimore Museum of Industry […]

Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change exhibition highlights and features those artists and citizen protestors who took to the street to raise awareness about social injustices in the wake of George Floyd's death.

Join us for this virtual celebration of HBCU homecomings and the memories, lessons, and adventures found at these "family" reunions. Nine storytellers will share with you -- LIVE -- unforgettable, curated, true-to-life narratives.  If you're homesick for your HBCU homecoming, this show is the perfect antidote! To attend this virtual program, you only need to […]

Examine the Civil War and Reconstruction through the lens of the  African American experience with content lectures, a virtual  tour and interactive instruction from An African American Journey Resource Guide. This course includes home assignments and implementing a curriculum lesson to obtain 1 MSDE credit hour. In partnership with the Maryland Center for History and Culture.  […]

Join Dr. Richard Bell to discuss his new book, Stolen, a gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years a Slave and Never Caught. Their ordeal—an odyssey […]

Express your activism through art by creating a fabric quilt block on a social justice issue important to our community. Hosted by the Social Justice Sewing Academy, youth participant’s quilt blocks will be sewn together into a social justice quilt. Quilt block templates will be provided by the Academy. Participants will need fabrics, craft glue […]

Award winning photographer John Clark Mayden has been documenting life in Baltimore ’s African American neighborhoods since the 1970s. His photographs capture the ordinary joys and sorrows, quiet moments, and daily realities of life: kids on their bikes and roller skates, old timers catching a breeze on their front stoops and busy people striding through […]

Join clinical psychologist Dr. Harriette Wimms and Chizuk Amuno Congregation Senior Rabbi Joshua Gruenberg as they explore the often fraught experiences of Jews of Color and what it means to be seen as “other” even in one’s own community. Click Here to Register. This is the second of three programs presented in partnership with the Jewish Museum […]

Join the ACLU of Maryland and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum for a virtual  premiere screening of Free the Vote, a new documentary by the ACLU of Maryland. The film shows how denying the right to vote of people who are incarcerated is rooted in a deeply racist system by focusing on the stories of […]

Explore the road to freedom during the antebellum period for African American runaways as portrayed in children’s literature with a panel discussion with children’s authors and illustrators Elizabeth Zunon, Jerdine Nolen and Carole Boston Weatherford. A lesson resource will be provided. In conjunction with Freedom Bound: Runaways of the Chesapeake. RSVP HERE Cost: Free