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Kwanzaa Virtual Panel Discussion: Black Businesses and COVID 19

  Celebrate the Kwanzaa holiday (December 26 - January 1) with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Eubie Blake Center along with their community partners with the following virtual activities. Register for each separate event to access the program. Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in  a conversation with black entrepreneurs and  the organizations  […]

Virtual Kwanzaa Programs @ the Eubie Blake Center

Celebrate the Kwanzaa holiday (December 26 - January 1) with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Eubie Blake Center along with their community partners with the following virtual activities. Register for each separate event to access the program. Join the Eubie Blake Center in an afternoon of specially curated presentations of poetry, author readings, […]

MLK Virtual Program: HS Juried Art Show and Artist Talk with Will Watson

Join the Lewis Museum to recognize Maryland high school students who participated in the annual art show. This year’s artistic theme is inspired by the exhibition Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change currently on view at the Lewis Museum. This virtual program includes an artist talk with Will Watson, a spoken word presentation by Sahzez […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture: featuring Eddie S. Glaude

Author Eddie S. Glaude  Jr. will talk about race today in America following the Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography–drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews–with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race. Eddie […]

MLK Commemorative Film Screening

Hear from Baltimore artists and activists whose work honors the legacy of Dr. King. The commemorative video also highlights past footage of Baltimore’s historic and beloved MLK parade.  Air date: January 17 on Charm TV (Comcast/Ch 25) and Livestreaming on charmtv.com. Check local listing for time. This program is part of The Art of Activism: […]

The Art of Activism: Youth Activists Panel Discussion

2020 ignited a cultural revolution of youth activism. In commemoration of Martin Luther King’s birthday, join us for a powerhouse conversation as panelists discuss issues and themes related to MLK’s legacy, inequality, and social injustices. Writer Lisa Snowden McCray will serve as moderator. Panelists include; Destini Philpot & Micaela Lattimer, Good Kids, Made City, Destinae […]

Virtual Saturday Fun Program with Illustrator Bryan Collier

Join children’s illustrator Bryan Collier in a virtual presentation and reading on his latest children’s books.  All Because You Matter is a heart-lifting love letter to Black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter while Thurgood is an inspiring picture-book biography on  the first black justice on the Supreme Court and a […]

Beyond Books: Raising an Anti-Racist Child – Virtual Program

Join consultant and leadership coach Imani Chapman as she dives into the challenges and opportunities of raising an anti-racist child, from refining our own analysis of race to understanding the intersections between race and child-development. Click Here to Register. This is the third of three programs presented in partnership with the Jewish Museum of Maryland and Chizuk Amuno […]

American Dream Deferred: Black Federal Workers in Washington, DC, 1941-1981 with Dr. Frederick Gooding, Jr.

While World War II was a boon to black workers, little is known about the nuanced, ongoing struggles for dignity and respect that black workers endured while working these “good, government jobs.” In this timely and critically important study, Frederick Gooding, Jr.’s meticulous research illuminates the understudied history of African American federal workers from World […]

Brown Lecture Series: Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, James Dale, and Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

Join us for a conversation about the life and legacy of Elijah Cummings between Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, book collaborator James Dale, and moderator Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Presented in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Part memoir, part call to action, We’re Better Than This is the story of our modern-day democracy and the […]