Kaiser Permanente and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum are pleased to present the 2nd Annual “African Americans in Health Care Awards”. This year's virtual event will recognize leaders in the healthcare field that are making a significant impact in our communities. Our guest of honor is Dr. Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Shanta Corbett, an African American viral immunologist at […]

Join author Joseph Fitzgerald in a discussion  on Gloria Richardson, one of the most influential and unsung leaders  that impacted the Civil Rights Movement. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics […]

Recent data shows  less than a third of the black and brown community  has received the COVID- 19 vaccines versus  2/3 of white populations having received the vaccine.  Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in a panel discussion  examining the racial disparities for black and brown communities accessing the COVID-19 vaccines. Healthcare  community stakeholders will […]

March 13th marks the one year anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death by Louisville police officers.  In observance of this month’s anniversary, join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in a conversation on the silent recognition concerning police brutality enacted on  Breonna Taylor and other black women in recent history.  Program Starts: 7 PM EST   Participating […]

Billie Holiday lived her life unapologetic. On April 7th the Reginald F. Lewis Museum will celebrate the jazz legend on her birthday with a conversation hosted by White House Correspondent April Ryan. In dialogue with Dr. Leana Wen, Saxophonist, Kirk Whalum and Professor Lawrence Jackson of Johns Hopkins University who founded the Billie Holiday Project […]

Hear personal stories from Black workers at Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point steel mill and shipyard featured in the new podcast “Sparrows Point: an American Steel Story” in this one-hour Zoom discussion co-hosted by the BMI and Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Moderated by Aaron Henkin of WYPR.  Click Here to Register.

K-12 educators face particular challenges when addressing the painful history of lynching and racially motivated violence with young learners. Together, MCHC Education Department staff and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum will highlight instructional resources and primary source material to support these discussions in the classroom. Participants will gain access to oral history interviews, photographs, newspapers, and manuscripts, and investigative […]

Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? Join the Lewis Museum with Dr. Marcia Chatelain  with her […]

Maryland today has a unique and historic opportunity. It alone, among all states, has made a deliberate decision to confront its dark history of racial terror lynching. Even before the wave of protests touched off by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, Maryland was positioning itself for this reckoning. In 2019 the […]

Join our virtual post film discussion of Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten which debuts on MPT, Monday, May 31, 2021 at 9pm EST. This revealing film examines the Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later and explores the history of “Black Wall Street,” anti-Black violence, and Black resilience in America. Featured panelists for this film […]