How Black public-sector workers and their unions fought for racial and economic justice in Baltimore.

Hang out, eat food, get drinks, and play games!

Alone, our debts are a burden. Together, they make us powerful.

Traversing the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art music, and jazz to hip-hop.

An exploration of the rich, important, and controversial history of Baltimore's first non-denominational African American cemetery.

Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sank their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies, and courts to form a union that would not only safeguard their livelihoods but also protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades.

In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago.

For several decades, author and curator Tavia Nyong'o (Yale University) and academic and musician Drew Daniel (JHU, Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) have been both friends and mutual influences on each other's writing and musical production. This is their first public conversation. Join these two polymaths from adjacent disciplines as they discuss queerness, race, art, anarchy, "wildness" and how to weave between theory and practice, writing and performance.

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.

Am I Trans Enough? The answer is undoubtably yes. You are. Alo Johnston has been where you are. From watching every transition story on YouTube and navigating online message boards for answers to finally starting testosterone and transitioning himself, he now walks alongside you every step of the way to guide you towards acceptance of who you truly are.

An in-person screening and conversation with Belly of the Beast's award-winning filmmakers and journalists Liz Olivia Fernández and Reed Lindsay.

The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA

An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone.

In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define “home” and “belonging” — from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt’s white French husband, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US.

Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its early days in Baltimore, Maryland, up to the present day. The riveting images in No Justice, No Peace provide a lens on the resistance that has empowered Black lives generation after generation.

A dialogue between two vital voices in the fight for liberation on emergent strategies, radical imagination, and the intersection of sexual violence and racial justice.

From the author of "Race After Technology," an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time

Ten years ago, D. Watkins published a zine version of his viral essay "Too Poor for Pop Culture" with Red Emma's. Fast forward a decade, and Baltimore's literary scene is transformed, with a thriving cohort of new voices—especially new Black voices—telling essential new stories. In conversation with award winning author, poet, and fellow Baltimore native Sheri Booker, D. will reflect on ten years of growth in Baltimore's literary world.

Spring—traditionally a time of hope and renewal, the return of light and warmth. Yet, for so many, any given day of spring can bring the same trauma, give cause for the same fears, as any other seasons’ day—fear for what might happen on the streets, in the prisons, or even in one’s own house. Thankfully the arts, and poetry in particular, help us to process all of this and renew together. Join us for an exciting time as the radical power of spoken word continues to inspire us to arts and action as we continue in the 11 th year of the DMV area’s quarterly venue of the theme “Peace, Justice, Poetry!”

Of Black Study explores how the ideas of Black intellectuals created different ways of thinking and knowing in their pursuit of conceptual and epistemological freedom.

A conversation around literature, political theory, and Middle Eastern identities.

Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet offers an illuminating first-person ethnographic perspective on climate change negotiations.

Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is? Have you been guided by curiosity or forced by circumstances to face your deepest fears, reexamine who you are, what you want out of life and how to advocate for change?

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides a place to sleep when we need one? We often rely on family for the care we all need. Yet even at their best families cannot carry the impossible demands placed on them, and for many the family is a place of private horror, of coercion and personal domination.