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February 17, 2021
This Talking About Race event is co-sponsored with the Enoch Pratt Free Library as part of their Writers Live! series. Lawrence T. Brown will be in conversation about his book, The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. Presented in partnership with AARP Maryland and OSI-Baltimore Fellows Advisory Board. The world gasped in April 2015 as […]
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February 18, 2020
Jerry Mitchell, author of Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era, will be in conversation with Morgan State University professor E.R.Shipp
Enoch Pratt Central Library, Wheeler Auditorium, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
October 15, 2019
2015 OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow, Lady Brion will be in conversation with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new poetry collection, "Felon." The event is co-sponsored by the Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
March 25, 2019
Educator, administrator and author of "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?", Dr. Beverly Tatum talks with Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Dr. Sonja Santelises about the role race plays in schools today.
University of Baltimore Law School Moot Court Room, 1401 N. Charles Street, Baltimore6:00 pm EST -
February 13, 2019
Award-winning author and former Washington Post senior editor Steve Luxenberg talks to Judge Robert Bell about the current-day relevance of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case.
Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles Street, Baltimore7:00 pm EST -
May 10, 2018
OSI-Baltimore, in collaboration with Baltimore Ceasefire and the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs, will host the next “Talking About Race” event, “Mothers of the Movement Speak,” a town hall discussion led by mothers who have lost children to police and gun violence, at the University of Baltimore H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons.
University of Baltimore Learning Commons and Town Hall, 1415 Maryland Ave, 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.
