A Just Reckoning: Transitional Justice and Lynching in Maryland
2021-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
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)

Click HERE to Register.

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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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.

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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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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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.

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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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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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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.

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.
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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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Young, Gifted & Woke - Virtual Event
2021-07-21, 2021-08-04 18:00 - 19:00
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.

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.

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.

Change in Mask Policy - Effective July 29
2021-07-29 08:00 - 2021-09-01 17:00
We encourage all guests to continue to be conscious of COVID-19 guidelines and continue using appropriate hygiene while in the museum.

Member & Volunteer Day: Hot Fun in the Summer Time - In Person
2021-08-07 11:00 - 16:00
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.
Click Here to RSVP/Purchase Online Tickets.
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.

Live @ the Lewis: Exhibit Expressions -Tell Our Story
2021-08-14
Explore the photographic works of Civil Rights photographer Robert Houston along with the contemporary works of Devin Allen, Joe Giordano and Dee Dwyer through the world of dance. Dance Baltimore Repertory Ensemble will perform dance interpretations based on their works. A gallery walk with the curator of Tell Our Story: A Tribute to Robert Houston exhibition will follow each dance performance.
Exhibit Expressions Dance Presentations: 1 pm and 3 pm
Included with Museum Admission
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Young, Gifted & Woke – Virtual Event
2021-08-18 18:00 - 19:00

Live @ the Lewis with WEAA Radio - Dear Mama: Tupac’s Homage to Black Mothers
2021-09-15
This program begins at 2 pm.
Patrons can meet us onsite at the Lewis Museum to see this live on-air show. Note: This program will also be live-streamed on WEAA and Lewis Museum’s Facebook page as well as on 88.9 FM WEAA radio station.
Join the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and WEAA’s Today with Dr. Kaye Radio Show in a live on-air discussion of Tupac’s iconic hip-hop song Dear Mama. This program will include a panel talk with Black mother activists and Black sons discussing their special relationship surviving turbulent times. The first segment will include a conversation analyzing Tupac’s lyrics with Dr. Jeff Menzise, professor of clinical psychology at Morgan State University and Jamilah Barnes of Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.
In the second segment Dr. Kaye Whitehead will interview Black mothers and sons to include:

Cheryl Waters-Hassan, mother of Ta-Nehsi Coates and friend of a young Tupac
Kimberly Armstrong an advocate on youth violence
Dr. David Fakunle and Deborah Pierce Fakunle, co- founders of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an organization that utilizes the African oral tradition to encourage the claiming of one’s narrative for personal and organizational growth.
Baltimore Beat Journalist Lisa Snowden McCray
Charmayne Turner, Director of School Partnerships, Y of Central Maryland

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This program is in partnership with Tupac Shakur Commemoration Week in Baltimore, MD (Sept 14 – Sept 17). For additional Tupac events, CLICK HERE.

Answering the Call: Access and Equity in Higher Education - Virtual Event
2021-09-23
To access ZOOM panel program on September 23rd click Here. Program begins Sept 23, 2021 at 6 pm EDT.
To register for the event to let us know you are attending, click Here.

Students of color face many disparities in higher education. They are disproportionately affected by barriers like affordability, STEM participation, and more, culminating in lower graduation rates and other academic challenges. Understanding this problem is the first step in solving it. Join Kaiser Permanente, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, and George Mason University for a dynamic discussion of disparities in higher education and how they can be addressed.
Participants are:

Dr. Heidi M. Anderson Panelist President, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Dr. Anthony L. Jenkins Panelist President, Coppin State University
Dr. Gregory Washington Panelist President, George Mason University
Dr. David Kwabena Wilson Panelist President, Morgan State University
Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh Panelist Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Howard University
Dr. Michael Willis Special Introductory Remarks Vice President and Information Officer, Kaiser Permanente
Terri Lee Freeman Executive Director and Moderator, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American Culture and History

Bodies of Information: Understanding Slavery through the Stearns Collection
2021-10-02 08:00 - 2021-10-10 17:00
Exhibition Opening Weekend:
Bodies of Information: Understanding Slavery through the Stearns Collection
October 1, 2021 – January 4, 2022
Bodies of Information: Understanding Slavery through the Stearns Collection explores how archives help us tell nuanced stories of slavery. The exhibit features select items from the Stearns Collection, an 87-piece collection spanning more than 100 years, painstakingly collected by Herbert Stearns. Through this exhibit we can examine how people – from researchers, educators, and historians to students and family genealogists – use documents to confront the complicated role that slavery played in American life. By looking closely at the newspapers, images, ads, and bills of sale from the period, we see how slavery existed in every part of life in the United States.

Virtual Education Webinar: Slavery from a Different Point of View and Its Relevance in Education
2021-10-16 10:00 - 12:00
This education webinar, part of three part professional learning series will serve to help educators reimagine the African American historical experience while looking at forms of resistance and acts of resilience. This session will also cover the pursuit of literacy and educational systems during plantation slavery leading up to the civil war. Participants will undergo a critical examination of the past while applying effective pedagogical strategies that still hold value and relevance in the field of education during contemporary times. This session will also address the following areas of focus:

Impact of enslaved literacy on enslaved populations
Self – Emancipation and uprisings linked to enslaved literacy
Learning in secrecy on the plantation
Education as a means of healing on the plantation
The 1619 Project and Lessons To Be Learned

To apply please contact terry.taylor@lewismuseum.org.

These sessions will be facilitated by Marcus Sankofa Nicks, M.A., of the Howard County Public School System. Marcus “Sankofa” Nicks holds a Masters Degree in African American Studies from Morgan State University of Baltimore, MD. He has worked in Maryland’s Howard County Public School System for over 12 years focusing his efforts on eliminating the achievement gap for Black/African American students as a liaison for the Black Student Achievement Program. He teaches high school African American Studies Seminar and serves as an educational consultant for staff in his school district on how to effectively teach students of color through a culturally relevant trauma-informed approach. His research primarily focuses on African American educational history during the Civil War era through the Jim Crow time period. His work also includes facilitating the socio-emotional development of Black educators who navigate educational settings. His community work extends from Howard County, Baltimore City and beyond where he has also served as a lead facilitator on many occasions for Black affinity groups and healing spaces for Black/African American individuals and families from a culturally based standpoint.

In conjunction with Bodies of Information: Understanding Slavery through the Stearns Collection – October 1, 2021 to January 4, 2022.

Keeping Our Planet Healthy: Sustainable Energy
2021-10-16 13:30 - 14:30
Join STEMCX and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum as we invite Kelly Wyche, CEO and founder of Collective Power (https://www.ourcollectivepower.org/) to discuss the need for sustainable ways to power our planet. Then join Kelly as she leads us through the construction of our own DIY windmill using materials in your own home. This STEM activity is inspired by William Kamkwamba, the environmentalist who famously built a wind turbine to save his village in Africa. A video reading of The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by illustrator Elizabeth Zunon will be included.
Keeping Our Planet Healthy: Sustainable Energy is in partnership with STEMcx. This program is part of the 2021 Maryland STEM Festival.
To Register Click Here. Scroll below for ZOOM Link.

Material Supply List:
Please have the following materials ready to create your own turbine during the session.

Cardboard panel to create three wind mills (About 11×14 dimensions)
1 – Paper towel tube
2 – Plastic straws
Scissors
Roll of masking tape
1 – Wooden/bamboo skewer stick (10 inch)
String (About 2 feet – 24 inches)
1 – Dixie Paper Cup
1 – Jumbo paper clip
4 – Small stones or glass pebbles (to fit in Dixie cup as weights)

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Marita Golden, The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
2021-10-19 19:00 - 20:00
Presented in partnership with the Enoch Pratt Free Library. FREE. Please check back for registration information.
Marita Golden will be in conversation with Dr. Georgia Willie-Carnegie about her life and work, including her new book, The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women
Marita Golden, cofounder and president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, is a veteran teacher of writing and an acclaimed award-winning author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She has served as a member of the faculties of the MFA graduate creative writing programs at George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University and in the MA creative writing program at John Hopkins University and has taught writing internationally to a variety of constituencies. She currently lives in Maryland.
Dr. Georgia Willie-Carnegie is certified as a Diplomate of the Board of Internal Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, member of the Association of Black Cardiology, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography, and American College of Physicians. She completed a MedStar Research Fellowship focusing on the Women’s Health Initiative and diabetes therapy. Her interests include cardiovascular imaging and echocardiography.
Order your copy of The Strong Black Woman from the Ivy Bookshop.
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