Past
Events

  • January 12, 2011
    Refugees in Their Own Country: Race and the Great Migration

    For almost 55 years, thousands upon thousands of black Americans from the South left their homes in search of a better future for themselves and their children. Sherrilyn Ifill, Civil Rights lawyer and OSI-Baltimore board member, interviewed Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration.

    Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST
  • November 04, 2010
    Truth and Reconciliation: A Community Comes to Grips with Its Past

    Thursday, November 4, 2010, 7:00 p.m., Enoch Pratt Free Library Commissioner Rev. Mark Sills and Rev. Nelson Johnson and his wife Joyce Johnson discussed the lessons learned from the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The conversation was moderated by Judge Andre Davis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

    Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST
  • April 20, 2010
    Is Justice Possible in a Race Biased Society?

    Bryan Stevenson founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and professor at New York University School of Law, and Renée Hutchins, professor at the University of Maryland Law School, discussed how race affects attitudes and outcomes in the criminal justice system.

    Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST
  • March 02, 2010
    Is America Really Post-Racial? A Screening of New Muslim Cool

    An interactive spoken word performance, film screening, and panel discussion, this event examined the emerging worldview of a new generation of Americans. After the screening of New Muslim Cool, Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip-Hop Generation, moderated a panel discussion. The panel included Nura Maznavi, staff attorney from Muslim Advocates; filmmaker Jennifer Taylor; and independent […]

    Brown Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1301 W Mt Royal Ave , Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST
  • February 22, 2010
    Stoop Stories: Talking About Race

    In partnership with OSI-Baltimore, Stoop Stories, a theme-based performance series produced by Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin, presented “Across the Divide: Stories about Race in Baltimore,” a show about being black and white in Baltimore. The show featured seven storytellers who got seven minutes each to tell a true, personal story about race. Audience members […]

    Baltimore Center Stage, 700 N Calvert St , Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST
  • December 01, 2009
    How Does White America Talk About Race?

    Why is race still an uncomfortable subject to talk about in the United States? At this event Rich Benjamin, author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, and Tim Wise, author of Between Barack & A Hard Place: Racism & White Denial in the Age of Obama, discussed white […]

    Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore
    7:00 pm EST