Charles M. Blow, New York Times op-ed columnist, will join us to talk about his own extraordinary life story—growing up in segregated, dirt poor Louisiana. Shawn Dove, director of OSF’s Campaign for Black Male Achievement, will serve as moderator.
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Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
Monday, August 18, 2014Knowing that their own African-American son, Idris, would face challenges as he navigated school, Michele Stephenson and Joe Brewster filmed the experience and produced an award-winning documentary, American Promise.
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Talking About Race: Can the President Make Progress for Boys and Men of Color?
Wednesday, May 14, 2014Join us in a discussion about President Obama’s recently launched My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative created to advance the achievement of boys and young men of color.
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Racial differences in arrests: are community-police partnerships a solution?
Tuesday, May 28, 2013Baltimore’s own Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Russell and national scholar Dr. Phillip Goff will address some provocative issues: What are the underlying causes of racial differences in arrests? What role does implicit bias play? Can communities and police work together in a meaningful way?
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
Tuesday, January 29, 2013As part of the Enoch Pratt Library and OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch spoke about his upcoming book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement. In his new book, he has selected eighteen essential moments from the Civil Rights Movement as presented in his America in the […]
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The House I Live In: Film screening and discussion
Tuesday, October 09, 2012Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In tells the stories of individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs. From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America’s criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of […]
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Racial Anxiety and Unconscious Bias: How it Affects Us All
Thursday, September 13, 2012What we don’t know can hurt us and others—and unconscious bias, along with racial anxiety, can unwittingly affect our responses and behavior. The examples revealed in provocative new research may surprise you—embedded stereotypes, it concludes, are experienced by people of color and whites alike. Understanding these biases is critical, especially for people in positions of power […]
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Slavery By Another Name Film Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, May 22, 2012Slavery By Another Name is an enormously powerful film that brings to light a period of history, largely ignored, in which many negative stubborn stereotypes—those that still plague society—were deliberately born. In addition to a screening of the film, 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner Douglas Blackmon, author of the book of the same name, discussed Slavery By Another […]
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Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
Monday, December 05, 2011Author Touré discussed his provocative new book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now with special guest commentator Michael Eric Dyson. Touré’s book was acclaimed by the New York Times as “one of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, black and middle-class in contemporary […]
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Breaking the Barriers: Helping Black Males Achieve Academic Success
Thursday, October 20, 2011Ivory Toldson, associate professor at Howard University, and Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, talked about what educators, parents and families can do to ensure that African American boy succeed. Shawn Dove, campaign manager for the Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement, served as moderator.
