Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Member & Volunteer Day: Hot Fun in the Summer Time - In Person
2021-08-07 11:00 - 16:00 UTC
Join us for our summertime Member & Volunteer Open House to learn how you can become a Lewis Museum member and volunteer!
Kids and their families can spend the afternoon beating the summertime heat at the Lewis Museum with fun family activities throughout the day. Activities include storytelling puppetry performances by Canady Foundation for the Arts Repertory Theatre time traveling to the famous African American Carr’s Beach, museum highlight tours and cartoon portraits sketched by caricature artist Jerry Breen.
This event is open to the public.
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Activity Schedule:

11 am and Noon – Canady Foundation for the Arts Repertory Theatre (30 minute presentations
12 pm to 3:30 pm – Caricature Portrait Drawings by Jerry Breen
12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm – Museum Tours with Guides (20 minute tours)
Cancellation Notice: Due to unforeseen emergencies Mr. Soft Ice Cream Truck and Sankofa Dance Theater will not be making an appearance at this event.

Young, Gifted & Woke - Virtual Event
2021-08-04 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-07-21
Hosted by 13 year old artist activist, Khloe Thompson, Young, Gifted & Woke Talk Series, is a conversation series with artists and activists working to better the world through creativity and activism in the community. Premieres July 21st! This program is in partnership with the Canady Foundation for the Arts. This event series exposes the public and international youth to the power art and artists have to change the world.
The Young, Gifted & Woke Talk Series, will be free and streamed to the public through Facebook on Wednesdays from 6-7pm EST on July 21st, August 4th and August 18th. Viewers can go to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum Facebook site to view this program.

Make Good Trouble Protest Panel Artists Retrospective - In Person
2021-07-24 15:00 - 16:30
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in commemorating the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd from an artists perspective. Join photojournalist Kyle Pompey and mural artists, Reggie Lewis, Jacob Patton Ado and Philip West, whose works are featured in “Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change” exhibition. They will reflect on the creation of their works, their involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement and the importance of art as a tool for activism and a vehicle for amplifying the voices of the oppressed. This artist conversation will be moderated by Museum curator, Carol Rhodes Dyson.
Included with Museum Admission. Click HERE to RSVP.

Tell Our Stories Youth Photography Workshop - In Person
2021-07-24 11:00 - 13:30
Sharpen your photography skills with photojournalist Kyle Pompey while exploring the exhibition, Tell Our Story: A Tribute to Robert Houston. Youth will learn how to shoot with a 35mm camera, discover some of the tricks of the trade for captivating photos and be introduced to the works of several African American photographers. Then participants will capture photos with Kyle Pompey touring the Museum’s neighborhood of Little Italy and the Inner Harbor.
Suitable for Ages: 9 – 14
Included with Museum Admission. Space is limited and includes the use of 35 mm cameras. Click HERE to register and reserve your spot.

Tell Our Story: A Tribute to Robert Houston Artist Talk - In Person
2021-07-10
Join us for an artist talk of the latest exhibition, Tell Our Story: A Tribute to Robert Houston. This conversation moderated by museum Curator Carol Dyson will examine the works of photographer Robert Houston who documented the Civil Rights movement including the Poor People’s Campaign and Resurrection City in Washington, DC along with the photographs of Devin Allen, J.M. Giordano and Dee Dwyer. This in-person conversation includes photographers Devin Allen, J.M. Giordano and Dee Dwyer.
Free to Museum Members. Free with Museum Admission to Non- Members.
This program begins at 3 pm.
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Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America -Virtual
2021-07-07 19:00 - 20:00
Brown Lecture Series: Candacy Taylor. Presented in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Candacy Taylor will be in conversation with Jessica Bell Brown about her book, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America.
Candacy Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian. Her work has been featured in over 50 media outlets including the New Yorker and The Atlantic. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants including The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
Jessica Bell Brown is the Associate Curator for Contemporary Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Her forthcoming exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration is co-curated with Ryan N. Dennis of the Mississippi Museum of Art and will open in April 2022 in Jackson and October 2022 at the BMA. Brown has helmed roles at Gracie Mansion Conservancy, Creative Time, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and MoMA. A Ph.D. candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art at Princeton, her writing has appeared in publications for The Studio Museum in Harlem, MoMA, New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Renaissance Society, Flash Art, Artforum, Art Papers, Aperture, Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail.
ASL interpretation will be available to attendees.
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Exhibition Opening: Tell Our Story: A Tribute to Robert Houston
2021-07-03
Tell Our Story, A Tribute to Robert Houston is an assemblage of photographs and photographers whose narratives are grounded in compassion and empathy yet focused on contemporary social commentary. As a grouping, the works share similar stories and methods chronicling a collective history. The exhibition is grounded in Houston’s sense of humanity as seen through various portraitures and expands into the photo documentation of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and Resurrection City where he lived for six weeks documenting the daily lives and activities he saw on the National Mall. Devin Allen and J.M. Giordano, both Baltimore based photographers, spent time with Houston, discussing the importance of community, building relationships with the subject matter, timing and patience in crafting an image as a social statement. Their contributed images document the beauty and struggle of everyday life, the 2018 Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, the Freddie Gray uprising and Black Lives Matter protests in Baltimore. While not directly influenced by Robert Houston, Dee Dwyer, a DC photo biographer, captures the essence and appreciation of community while weaving multi-level narratives. Her images celebrate urban life and record stories of protest and change with grace and humanity, forwarding the legacy of the stylistic perspective of Robert Houston.

Action Revolutionaries: Celebrating the Legacy of Black Trans Organizing - In Person
2021-06-28
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in a discussion with local Black trans leaders on the histories of grassroots organizing and activism for the entire TLGBQ community, as well as within the larger movement for Black liberation. Trans leaders will discuss the foundations of Black trans leadership as well as the distance between the Black Trans Live Movement with Black Lives Matter calling for solidarity among Black communities to fight for trans lives. This program is in memory of the Stonewall Riots Anniversary (June 28, 1969), a historic moment that catapulted the Gay Rights movement. Included with Museum Admission.
In partnership with Baltimore Safe Haven.
This program begins 6:30 pm to 8 pm.
In conjunction with Making Good Trouble, Marching for Change exhibition.
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Virtual Book Talk: Annette Gordon Reed, On Juneteenth
2021-06-23 19:00 - 20:00
Celebrate Juneteenth throughout June with virtual and onsite programming with the Lewis Museum and its community partners. More details to come.
Annette Gordon-Reed will be in virtual conversation with Lawrence Jackson about her new book, On Juneteenth. In partnership with the Enoch Pratt Library.
In ON JUNETEENTH, Gordon-Reed combines her own scholarship with a personal and intimate reflection of an overlooked holiday that has suddenly taken on new significance in a post-George Floyd world. As Gordon-Reed writes, “It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” Yet, Texas—the last state to free its slaves—has long acknowledged the moment on June 19, 1865, when US Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed from his headquarters in Galveston that slavery was no longer the law of the land.
ON JUNETEENTH takes us beyond the stories of Gordon-Reed’s childhood, providing a Texan’s view of the long, non-traditional road to a national recognition of the holiday. Gordon-Reed presents the saga of a frontier defined as much by the slave plantation owner as the mythic cowboy, rancher, or oilman. Reworking the “Alamo” narrative, she shows that enslaved Blacks—in addition to Native Americans, Anglos, and Tejanos—formed the state’s makeup from the 1500s, well before Africans arrived in Jamestown. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing.
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lawrence Jackson is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He has written a memoir on race and family history called My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War.
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BLM Protest Anniversary Programming - Make Good Trouble Protest Panels Artist Retrospective - Rescheduled
2021-06-22 18:30 - 20:30
This program will be rescheduled in July 2021. Please check back for new date.
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in commemorating the first anniversary of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the death of George Floyd by joining the artists, Reggie Lewis, Jacob Patton Ado, Sara Austin and Philip West, who created the four panels featured in the “Make Good Trouble” exhibit as they reflect on the creation of their work, their involvement in the Black Lives Matter movement and the importance of art as a tool for activism and a vehicle for amplifying the voices of the oppressed.

Black Wall Street and Beyond Series: Understanding Economic Development for Youth/The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 - Virtual Event
2021-06-22 10:00 - 11:30
In partnership with Kaiser Permanente, the first of three events will feature Hillary Beard, author of the adaptation The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. Ms. Beard will discuss her new book adaption for youth.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the historical events that led to the destruction of the Greenwood community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood was home to a thriving commercial and residential district respectfully known as Black Wall Street. The community was home to businesses, including grocery stores, banks, libraries, and much more; one of the most affluent African-American communities in the country. The newly released book The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, tells the other story- how a generation of Black Americans just recently removed from enslavement, built prosperous, wealthy community of 10,000 with its own financial institutions, educational system, 600 entrepreneurs, churches, hotels, movie theatres, and more. These events tell a story of how generational wealth in the Black community could’ve been built and fostered.
The Black Wall Street and Beyond Series will highlight the lessons learned from this once thriving and self-sufficient community and apply it to conditions of today. It will also emphasize why we must work to increase opportunities to build back wealth into Black communities and families through investing in the stock market and entrepreneurship. This series will serve as a springboard for teachers to develop follow up lesson plans to educate students about the history Black Walls Street and economic development.
Hilary Beard is an award-winning writer and an expert in book collaborations. She has partnered with many celebrities, experts, and public figures, including Katherine Johnson on her book Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson.

Suitable for youth (12+), educators and general public.

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Juneteenth Short Kuts Show: Black Liberation, Protest, Freedom - In Person Event
2021-06-19 16:00 - 17:30
This Juneteenth Freedom Day Event is sponsored by imre.
Ever just wanted to break free? Join us onsite at the Lewis Museum to experience stories of liberation for the premier Short Kuts Live Storytelling Show. In honor of Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, we celebrate the date when Major General Granger and Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, with news that the civil war had ended; it represents the end of slavery for all in the United States of America.
Our Liberation: “Stories of Freedom and Emancipation” – The show explores the themes of liberation, ranging from the joys of freedom to the perils people faced in the aftermath, whether they were refugees, survivors of domestic violence, discrimination, assault, or in a strange land or felt like strangers in their own country.
Liberation Theme Song: Redemption Songs by Bob Marley
Featured Storytellers

Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead
Tsaonsda Edwards
Dionne Joyner-Weems
Dr. LaShay Harvey
Winifred Winston

Produced by Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields and directed by Marc LaVeau.
Click HERE to Register/Purchase Online Tickets. ** Special Note: Free admission offered to the first 250 people who visit the museum on June 19th.

Hybrid Event: Juneteenth Jamboree with Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford
2021-06-19 13:00 - 14:00
Join award-winning mother and son duo Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford for a Juneteenth Jamboree! Following a reading of Carole’s book Juneteenth Jamboree and a talk about their ancestors, listen to interactive spoken word by Jeffery and learn how to make a corn husk doll. Instructions on how to make a corn husk doll will be provided so participants can make one at home.
Onsite Virtual Program @ the Lewis Museum – Come join us onsite to view this virtual program and ask your questions in person while also visiting the Lewis Museum on Juneteenth. ** Special Note: Free admission offered to the first 250 people who visit the museum on June 19th.
Presented in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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Hybrid Juneteenth Event: Reconstruction and African American Memory
2021-06-19 10:00 - 12:00
Explore the historical legacy of the Reconstruction Era and Freedmen’s Bureau with a scholarly lecture by Dr. Chris Bonner, University of Maryland, College Park. This presentation will be followed by a demo of the Smithsonian Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project with Quinton Gregory, University of Maryland, College Park.
Christopher Bonner specializes in African American history, particularly black protest in the early United States. He is at work on a manuscript titled “The Price of Citizenship,” which examines black activists’ efforts to construct American citizenship before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Partners: PGAAMCC, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, Community Co- Creation Lab
Click Here to Register for the Online Program. ** Special Note: The museum will screen this virtual program onsite in the theater. Free admission offered to the first 250 people who visit the museum on June 19th.

Free Museum Admission: Juneteenth Freedom Day
2021-06-19
Celebrate Juneteenth exploring African American history and culture while visiting the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on June 19th from 10 am to 5 pm. The first 250 visitors who visits the museum on this day receives Free Admission. Check out the calendar events for Juneteenth programs taking place today. Programs included with your free admission.

Juneteenth Virtual Museum Tour: Journey to Freedom
2021-06-17 19:00 - 20:00
Begin the Juneteenth holiday on a freedom journey with Harriet Tubman, the greatest freedom seeker of all times. Online visitors will travel virtually to scenic historical sites on the Eastern Shore traveled by Tubman and others with a virtual tour and talk with Alex Green, Owner and Tour Guide of Harriet Tubman Tours.
In partnership with the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center.
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The Fire This Time: Black TLGBQ, Artists Share the Vision of a New World-Onsite
2021-06-16 18:30 - 20:30
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in observing “LGBTQ Pride Month” with a celebration of Black, queer art and artists, from today and of the past. Artists will specifically analyze how media of all types (music, dance, visual art, poetry, etc.) have been tools for advocacy, self-love and community building. Included with Museum Admission.
In partnership with Baltimore Safe Haven.
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Live @ the Lewis Featuring Upendo- Onsite Program (12:30 and 3:30 PM)
2021-06-12 12:30 - 16:30
In observance of Black Music Month, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum presents Live at the Lewis with UPENDO featuring Brandon Woody. The band will perform two concert sets on Saturday, June 12. (12:30 pm and 3:30 pm).
Brandon Woody, a jazz trumpeter, model, and the lead for the band UPENDO, is a Baltimore native and a Baltimore School for the Arts alumnus. He studied at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and Brubeck Institute in California. In 2015 he started his band UPENDO and was named one of the rising young performing artists in the Metro region. Brandon has shared the stage with Quincy Phillips, Ray Angry, Benny Maupin, Stefon Harris, Danilo Perez, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Steve Wilson. And he has performed on world-class stages such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Monterey Jazz Festival, Sydney Opera House, the Lyric Opera House, Bohemian Caverns, Aaron Davis Hall, and The Kimmel Center, to name a few.
Brandon has curated jazz compositions for several vocal and hip-hop albums, along with film scores. During the COVID shutdown in 2020, Brandon kicked off a series of Sidewalk Serenades that thrilled the residents of Baltimore. Brandon is currently a model for Calvin Klein and Saucony and is working on his freshman album due to release in 2021.
Included with the Museum admission price. Click Here to RSVP/Purchase Online tickets.

Film Discussion: Tulsa: The Fire and The Forgotten - Virtual Program
2021-06-03 18:00 - 20:00
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 discussion includes Deneen Brown, award-winning Washington Post reporter and oral historian in The Fire and Forgotten; and Dr. Marshall F. Stevenson, Jr., Dean of the School of Education, Social Sciences and the Arts at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). Both Brown and Stevenson serve on the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In partnership with the Lillian Carroll Jackson Museum.
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A Just Reckoning: Transitional Justice and Lynching in Maryland
2021-05-19 19:00 - 20:30
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 state legislature unanimously passed an act creating the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MLTRC), the first and only one of its kind in the country.
The Commission is tasked to:

learn the truth about the 40 known racial terror lynchings in the state
assess the damage these unsolved murders continue to wreak
make recommendations for addressing the legacy of lynching
begin to imagine what a project of racial reconciliation might look like

Join the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project for an online virtual forum to explore how the tools and techniques of transitional justice can support truth and reconciliation efforts in the state and set an example for the nation.
Panelists include:

Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo, founder and Director of the International Justice Lab at
William & Mary
Dr. Nicholas Creary, Associate Provost of Academic Inclusion and Innovation at Moravian College and MLTRC Commissioner
Virginie Ladisch, Senior Expert, ICTJ
Terri Freeman, Executive Director, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
Clory Jackson, Founder of the Brownsville Project and the Allegany County Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Committee (ACLTRC)

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Book Talk: Franchise - The Golden Arches in Black America
2021-04-29 19:00 - 20:00
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 new book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America for some of those answers. In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who—in the troubled years after King’s assassination—believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. From civil rights to Ferguson, Franchise reveals the untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America.
Dr. Marcia Chatelain is a Professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015), Chatelain is a scholar of African American life and culture. Her most recent book is Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
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Virtual Teacher Workshop: Lynching in Maryland
2021-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
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 lesson plans about lynching in Maryland. The MCHC and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum are both designated members of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

This virtual program is free and open to all educators. Registration is required. After registering for the program, attendees will receive an automated confirmation email with connection instructions. Click HERE to Register.
Image found and used courtesy of the Baltimore Afro-American News archive. Article from October 28, 1933 ‘2nd Annual Lynch Edition. Full articles can be accessed through Pratt Library Online at https://www.prattlibrary.org/research/databases/maryland-newspapers.

Black Workers at Bethlehem Steel
2021-04-21 19:00 - 20:00
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.
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Billie Holiday: Unapologetic
2021-04-07 20:00 - 21:00
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 for Liberation Arts.
The Special Presentation will broadcast at 8PM on Charm TV – Comcast Ch 25/1085, and Livestream on Charm TV digital and the Lewis Museum Facebook platform. https://www.charmtvbaltimore.com/

Do You See Me: The Injustice of Breonna Taylor and Black Women
2021-03-17
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 Panelists:

Dr. Kimberly R. Moffitt is Interim Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, professor of Language, Literacy & Culture and affiliate professor of Africana Studies at UMBC. Her teaching interests include culture, media studies/criticism, Black hair and body politics, sports and media, and popular culture.
Dr. Vesla Mae Weaver (Ph.D., Harvard, Government, and Social Policy) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and a 2016-17 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She has contributed to scholarly debates around the persistence of racial inequality, colorism in the United States, the causes and consequences of the dramatic rise in prisons, and the consequences of rising economic polarization.
Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen is an interdisciplinary social scientist, exhibition curator, and organizational strategist. Her scholarship and intellectual activism focus on racism, black subjectivities, and urban inequalities in Central America and the U.S. South. She is an assistant research professor of Sociology and the associate director of the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, Kali-Ahset was associate director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Thenjiwe McHarris is currently in leadership within the Movement for Black Lives and is the co-founder of Blackbird, an organization that focuses on movement building in this current historical moment. She honed her human rights campaign development and organizing skills while working for and with movement building collectives and international organizations over the past 15 years. Before Blackbird, Thenjiwe served as senior leadership in the US Human Rights Network and led advocacy efforts at Amnesty International.

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Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Black and Brown Communities
2021-03-15
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 discuss the inequities facing these communities and what outreach strategies are being utilized to alleviate barriers.
Program Start Time: 7 PM EST
Participating Panelists:

Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Dr. Michelle Gourdine, Chief Medical Officer (interim) and Senior Vice President, Population Health and Primary Care for the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)
Sharon Hawks, Reid Temple Health Community Initiative Director
Reverend Kobi Little, President of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP
Dr. Kendra McDow, Chief Medical Officer for the Baltimore City Health Department

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Women's History Program: The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
2021-03-04
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 beyond nonviolent demonstrations. The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Fitzgerald reveals how Richardson’s human rights activism extended far beyond Cambridge and how her leadership style and vision for liberation were embraced by the younger activists of the black power movement, who would carry the struggle on throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s.
Joseph R. Fitzgerald is assistant professor of history and political science at Cabrini University. His areas of focus include critical race feminism and the civil rights and black power waves of the modern black liberation movement.
Program Time: 7:00 PM EST
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2nd Annual African Americans in Health Care Awards
2021-02-25
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 the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Corbett is one of the lead scientists in the development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. She is a graduate of University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a Meyerhoff Scholar. Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, President of UMBC, is scheduled to moderate this conversation.
Other distinguished award honorees are Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Health Commissioner Baltimore City (Baltimore Health Corp., research and Baltimore’s contact tracing strategy);Annette March-Grier, Founder and President, Roberta’s House (Trauma and Grief Counseling); and Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.
Program Time: 1 PM – 2:30 PM EST
To view the Awards Program Click Here. Access to the event will open at 11:30 AM EST on February 25, 2021.
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Race in America: Capitol Insurrection, Riots and Black Lives Matter
2021-02-21
On January 6, 2021, much of the social media community posted how vastly different the Capitol Insurrection rioters were treated than the Black Lives Matter Protesters from previous events. Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in a Talks and Thoughts Conversation conversing on race disparities, law enforcement and politics when dealing with Black Lives Matter Protests and other protests organized by white militia groups or domestic terrorists. Panel presenters will include civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, University of Baltimore law professor and author Michael Higginbotham, Johns Hopkins historian and legal scholar Martha S. Jones, retired Anne Arundel County Police Commander TJ Smith and Maurice Davis, Director of Security at the University of Maryland Medical Center. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Kaye Whitehead radio host of WEAA’s Today with Dr. Kaye and Loyola University professor of communications and African American Studies.
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Program Time: 3 pm EST

Panelists’ Information:

Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., associate professor of communication and African and African American Studies, is a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and the award-winning radio host of Today with Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9FM. Her scholarship examines the ways race, class, and gender coalesce in American classrooms as well as in political and social environments. Named one of Essence magazine’s 2019 “Woke 100 Women” changing the world and one of “25 Women to Watch” by the Baltimore Sun, she is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the country.
DeRay Mckesson is a civil rights activist focused primarily on issues of innovation, equity and justice. Born and raised in Baltimore, he graduated from Bowdoin College and holds honorary doctorates from The New School and the Maryland Institute College of Art. As a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter Movement and a co-founder of Campaign Zero, DeRay has worked to connect individuals with knowledge and tools, and provide citizens and policy makers with commonsense policies that ensure equity. He has been praised by President Obama for his work as a community organizer, has advised officials at all levels of government and internationally, and continues to provide capacity to activists, organizers, and influencers to make an impact.
Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Professor Jones is a public historian, writing for broader audiences at the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, Talking Points Memo, Politico, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time. Professor Jones serves on the US Capitol Historical Society.
F. Michael Higginbotham is a constitutional law professor and author who teaches at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Higginbotham is the former interim dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law, the former President of the Public Justice Center and the former chair of the Maryland Attorney General’s Task Force on Electronic Weapons. He is the author of Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending In Post Racial America.
T.J. Smith is a retired Anne Arundel County Police commander, former chief spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department and former press secretary for Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr.
Maurice Davis is the Director of Security at the University of Maryland Medical Center. For the past twelve years he has worked closely with the University of Maryland Campus Police and the Baltimore City Police Department to ensure the rights and protection of all those who enter the medical center. Prior to UMMC, he retired as a Lt. Colonel after 28 years with the Maryland Natural Resources Police. He is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Police Executive Leadership Program, the FBI National Academy, and holds a Master’s Degree in Management from Johns Hopkins University.
