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May 22, 2012
Slavery 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 […]
MICA’s Brown Center, 1301 W Mt Royal Ave , Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
December 05, 2011
Author 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 […]
Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore7:30 pm EST -
October 20, 2011
Ivory 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.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
September 15, 2011
Michelle Gourdine, physician and author of Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness, and Thomas LaVeist, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Disparities Solutions, discussed the inequities that exist in our current medical care system and offered solutions for change.
Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
January 12, 2011
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, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
November 04, 2010
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, Baltimore7:00 pm EST
About the Series
OSI-Baltimore has been presenting this free, public series since 2009 as a way of sparking conversations about how race intersects with our lives. They generally attract crowds of about 250 people.