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The end of the year is a busy time for arts administrators, packed with holiday campaigns and fundraising deadlines. With so much happening, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. So today we're taking a moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect with our “why.”  In this episode, we revisit a popular Boot Camp 2024 conversation with CI President Priya Iyer Doshi and Terri Freeman, President of The Lewis Museum, about purpose-driven leadership and the resilience of our industry. Then, we ask arts administrators to reflect on their year and what's fueling their passion in 2025. It will leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and ready to tackle what's ahead. CI to Eye with Terri Freeman (1:30) - Live from Boot Camp 2024, CI President Priya Iyer Doshi sits down with Terri Freeman, President of The Lewis Museum. Together they discuss purpose-driven leadership, resilience, and navigating uncertainty with clarity. It's a timely conversation and a powerful reminder of the importance of our work. Ask The Industry (59:30) - Dan takes his microphone to the Boot Camp floor to ask arts administrators about their year in review. They share their excitements, challenges, and what's keeping them inspired as we roll into 2025. Listen for familiar voices from Acadiana Center for the Arts, ArtOps, ArtsWave, Ballet BC, Carnegie Hall, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Charleston Gaillard Center, Cincinnati Arts Association, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Houston Ballet, Huntington Theatre Company, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Madison Symphony Orchestra, New York Theatre Workshop, Paper Mill Playhouse, Proctors Collaborative, Signature Theatre, Trinity Rep, University Musical Society, YoungArts, and ZACH Theatre.

On this Juneteenth edition of Midday, we also take a look at the future of Black culture and history. Tom's guests are Terri Lee Freeman, the director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MD African American History and Culture, and Myrtis Bedolla, the owner of Galarie Myrtis here in Baltimore. Myrtis has curated an exhibition at the Lewis Museum focused on Afro Futurism. Presented in conjunction with the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University, it's called “Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined” and is at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum until September 5. Terri Lee and Myrtis joined Tom in studio. The special slate of Juneteenth events at the Lewis continues until 4:00 this afternoon. Admission to the museum today is free. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art is one of Claremont's emerging art venues, bringing some of the best of the best art, in many forms, to Claremont and visitors.  Seth Pringle, CLMA's Co-Curator, art educator/expert and amazing artist/ceramist in his own right, speaks about how the CLMA is growing, the various shows that have been and are to come, and the education programs and other opportunities the CLMA is offering.  In addition, Seth reveals other local exhibits and shows of interest, including the Maloof Residence and the fascinating show "Built on Water" at the Ontario Museum, an art show that is as much an educational experience regarding out use of water in SoCal - Seth offers key insight into how we can improve, be more efficient and effective, and save real money in the bargain.For anyone who is a member of the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, or enjoys seeing the best of both the old and new, Seth's interview provides an extra measure of insight and an added level of enjoyment to your next visit.==================================================To see more of Seth Pringle's work and contact him (and tell him you liked his CS episode, of course), visit   www.sethpringle.comFor the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art's latest shows, hours and information, go to https://clmoa.org/To learn more about the Maloof exhibit opening soon:  https://www.malooffoundation.org/For information on "Built on Water" and more at the Ontario Museum:  https://www.ontariomuseum.org/And to explore the The dA Center for the Arts  (Pomona Centro de Artes y Cultura)please visit https://www.dacenter.org/

About the guest:Carol Rhodes-Dyson is a curator for the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and organized the exhibition Robert Houston:  Tell Our Story featuring the work of Robert Houston and his influences Baltimore photographers JM Giordano, Devin Allen and Washington DC's Dee Dwyer.Carol Rhodes Dyson has gained significant curatorial experience through Busboys and Poets, a progressive restaurant and alternative arts space.  I held that position since the summer, 2013.   An example of exhibitions I curated or co-curated include include: #Migration61, with the Phillips Collection based on what the 61st piece of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series would look likeImplicit Bias, an exhibition with the Joan Hisaoka Smith Healing Arts Gallery that displayed images confronting bias and racism.  It featured over 80 works displayed at the Smith Healing Arts Gallery in DC and throughout five  Busboys and Poets location.  *curated over 60 images throughout five restaurants  for the 10th Anniversary of Busboys and Poets/Artomatic celebration.ABOUT BUSBOYS AND POETSBusboys and Poets is a community where racial and cultural connections are consciously uplifted… a place to take a deliberate pause and feed your mind, body and soul… a space for art, culture and politics to intentionally collide… we believe that by creating such a space we can inspire social change and begin to transform our community and the world.ABOUT Reginald F. Lewis MuseumThe Lewis Museum, the largest African American museum in Maryland, has been the authentic voice of Maryland African American history and culture since it opened in 2005. We tell our story through our permanent collection, special exhibitions, educational programs and public events.The Truth In This ArtThe Truth In This Art is a podcast interview series supporting vibrancy and development of Baltimore & beyond's arts and culture.Mentioned in this episodeReginald F. Lewis MuseumTo find more amazing stories from the artist and entrepreneurial scenes in & around Baltimore, check out my episode directory.Stay in TouchNewsletter sign-upSupport my podcastShareable link to episode★ Support this podcast ★

Here's a Stoop Story from Jake Jacobson about cultural exchanges … and memorable mishaps. There's a live Stoop coming up next Wednesday, December 8, with the theme: Bah, Humbug!: Stories about making mistakes, making amends, and making merry.  It starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. At the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American History and Culture next Monday evening, December 6.  At 7 p.m. Gayle Jessup White will discuss her book,  Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Legacy. She will be in conversation with Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley,  Director of Interpretation, Collections, and Education at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Links: Live Stoop, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Gayle Jessup book discussion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Iranian, b. 1986 Lives and works in Baltimore, MD Taha Heydari's striking, large-scale canvases examine the power of images—and the role of the spectator—in politics, propaganda, and the shaping of culture and identity. Particularly of interest to Heydari are the ways in which the seductive power of media imagery is being used to shape perceptions and outcomes in the the United States and the Middle East. Heydari begins each new painting by culling from his growing archive of source material, news and media artefacts gleaned from research in libraries and on the Internet. His paintings are painstakingly executed with minutely detailed brushwork, but appear pixelated and fragmented, approximating the digital image in the moment of a glitch, when an error occurs in transmission. The beauty of Heydari's paintings invites closer inspection, which yields an array of ominous associations. In his most recent series of works, Heydari draws from covers of the Iranian women's magazine Zan-e Rooz (Woman of Today) published just before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, examining the ways in which cultural ruptures produce shifts in ideology and identity. Heydari received his BFA from the Art University of Tehran and an MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute of College of Art in Baltimore. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Iran, New York, San Francisco, and Baltimore, including Taha Heydari: Subliminal, his first institutional solo at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC in 2017. He has additionally been included in group exhibitions in Baltimore, Amsterdam, Dubai, London, Antwerp and Berlin, most recently Make Good Trouble: Marching for Change at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD (2020-2021) and Performance Anxiety at the Allegheny College Art Galleries in Meadville, PA (2021). He has been nominated for the prestigious Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2017), and the Bethesda Painting Awards (2019). (Courtesy of Haines Gallery) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeremy-jirsa/support

Jerrell Gibbs retraces family memories, examining the origin of his own life by representing intimate and instantly joyous moments. Affirming the multilayered experience of the African-American diaspora, Gibbs plunges the viewer into an immersive experience, the realm of his childhood.Growing up in Baltimore influenced his perspective on socio-economics, body politics, race, economic disparities and their influence on one another. Through his figurative portraits, Gibbs invigorates banal representations of black identity by depicting empathy, inviting the possibility for a spiritual connection. The works are adapted from small Polaroids into life-size paintings. Gibbs graduated with an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2020. He has exhibited at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Galleries at CCBC and The Gallery at Howard University. His work is in the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Gibbs is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery.If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It really makes a difference and it's always nice to read kind words.Follow us on Twitter and  InstagramBe sure to check out our other podcasts:Mastermind Team's Robcast - Mastermind Team's Robcast is an irreverent and hilarious podcast covering all things pop culture and weird news. Let's Watch It Again - Let's Watch It Again is a movie review podcast from MTR The Network.★ Support this podcast ★

Presented in partnership with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Annette Gordon-Reed is in conversation with Lawrence Jackson about her new book, On Juneteenth. In ON JUNETEENTH, Gordon-Reed combines her own scholarship with a personal and intimate reflection of an overlooked holiday that has suddenly taken on new significance in a post-George Floyd world. As Gordon-Reed writes, “It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.” Yet, Texas—the last state to free its slaves—has long acknowledged the moment on June 19, 1865, when US Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed from his headquarters in Galveston that slavery was no longer the law of the land. ON JUNETEENTH takes us beyond the stories of Gordon-Reed's childhood, providing a Texan's view of the long, non-traditional road to a national recognition of the holiday. Gordon-Reed presents the saga of a frontier defined as much by the slave plantation owner as the mythic cowboy, rancher, or oilman. Reworking the “Alamo” narrative, she shows that enslaved Blacks—in addition to Native Americans, Anglos, and Tejanos—formed the state's makeup from the 1500s, well before Africans arrived in Jamestown. That slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is ongoing. Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. Author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lawrence Jackson is the author of the award-winning books Chester B. Himes: A Biography and The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics. In 2002 he published Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, 1913-1952 and he has written a memoir on race and family history called My Father's Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War. Professor Jackson earned a PhD in English and American literature at Stanford University, and he is a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship awardee. A Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University, he founded the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts to create opportunities for enhanced intellectual and artistic relations between Hopkins and Baltimore City, his hometown. He is completing a book about his return called Job's Labyrinth, or, Shelter. The Brown Lecture Series is supported by the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation. Recorded On: Wednesday, June 23, 2021

CityLit Project supports writers as well as their ardent fans. Each year it also recognizes someone who works above and beyond to nurture the culture of literature. This year CityLit is bestowing its Chic Daumbach award on author and educator D. Watkins for his ongoing commitment to young people in Baltimore: “I know how I would have felt if a person took an interest in coming to my school and to talk to me about college, about books, about the neighborhood, about dreaming past the reality that I was in.” Plus, Reginald F. Lewis museum executive director Terri Lee Freeman and Safe Haven COO Jabari Lyles offer a preview of Juneteenth and Pride celebrations at the museum and have a discussion of how Black history and Black Trans history intersect. Links: CityLit Project Daumbach Award event, Reginald F. Lewis Museum Juneteenth and Pride events, Baltimore Pride, Safe Haven resources. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today it'sMidday at the Museum. Tom's guests are the new executive directors of two of Baltimore’s most cherished institutions. A little later, Tom speaks with Dr. Sol Davis, who has recently taken the reins of The Jewish Museum of Maryland. But we begin with Terri Lee Freeman. Before coming to Baltimore, she served for six years as the director of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. In February, she became the new executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture here in Baltimore. Terri Lee Freeman joins us on Zoom… The Lewis is hosting its first in-person event this Saturday, in honor of Mother’ Day. The museum will host two screenings of a film by Brenda Hayes called Back Burner Dreams: A Women’s Passion Project.It’s the story of three women who put their own dreams and priorities on hold for years, and how they re-kindle those dreams later in life. There will be screenings at 12:30 and 2:30, each followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. For more information, click here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reginald F. Lewis--a Baltimorean and a powerhouse in business and philanthropy during the 1980s and ‘90s--had a big wish for his hometown: he longed to support a museum devoted to African American culture. Years after his death the dream materialized as the ‘Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.’ Terri Freeman is its new executive director. Today we hear about her priorities, her plans to engage audiences and her focus on broadening the Lewis’s reach beyond Baltimore: “It is going to be really important that as we move forward that we are really reflecting all of Maryland and all of the richness that is the African American community throughout the state and frankly throughout the region.”  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us for a conversation about the life and legacy of Elijah Cummings between Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, book collaborator James Dale, and moderator Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Presented in partnership with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Part memoir, part call to action, We’re Better Than This is the story of our modern-day democracy and the threats that we all must face together, as well as a retrospective on the life and career of one of our country’s most inspirational politicians. We’re Better Than This reminds people that in this country we don’t elect kings, and we cannot afford four more years of this false one. Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is a social entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and strategist who’s on a mission to drive society toward inclusion. After a quarter of a century of working on innovative public policy and multimillion-dollar social change initiatives in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors, Maya is a policy and political expert who understands how to build and sustain cross-sector collaborations, diverse coalitions, dynamic diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies, and effective education campaigns. An accomplished public speaker and author, Maya has appeared in a variety of media outlets such as CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BET and her writings have been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, and the Washington Post among other publications. She has served on numerous boards including the National Association of Counties Financial Services Corporation, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She is the recipient of multiple honors such as the Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship Award and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Fellowship Award and has been a candidate for Maryland governor and the U.S. Congress. A former chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, Maya earned her B.A. in political science from Prairie View A&M University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, with an emphasis in public policy, from Purdue University. She is the widow of the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings and lives in West Baltimore with her dog Andy. James Dale has been author-collaborator on a number of books on topics including business, medicine, and life lessons. His works include The Power of Nice with agent-negotiator Ron Shapiro; Just Show Up with Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.; and The Q Factor with Super Bowl–winning coach Brian Billick. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, has served as President of UMBC (The University of Maryland, Baltimore County) since 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. He chaired the National Academies’ committee that produced the 2011 report, Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America’s Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads. He was named in 2012 by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans. His 2013 TED talk highlights the “Four Pillars of College Success in Science.” A child-leader in the Civil Rights Movement, Hrabowski was prominently featured in Spike Lee’s 1997 documentary, Four Little Girls, on the racially motivated bombing in 1963 of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama, Hrabowski graduated from Hampton Institute with highest honors in mathematics. He received his M.A. (mathematics) and Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.The Brown Lecture Series is supported by the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation. Recorded On: Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Join us for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture featuring Eddie Glaude. Presented in partnership with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography–drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews–with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black. Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund. Recorded On: Saturday, January 16, 2021

(This program originally aired August 4, 2020) When the novelist, journalist, playwright and activist James Baldwin died in 1987, his place in the panoply of great American writers was assured.   He is remembered as one of the most eloquent observers of the Black experience, and an insightful and compelling critic of racial inequality.  He was prolific and provocative, and one of the most important and invigorating public intellectuals of his time.    Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is one of the most important and invigorating public intellectuals of our time.  He is the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, and a former president of the American Academy of Religion.  In addition to many scholarly books and articles, he enjoys a wide audience as a contributor to MSNBC, and for his essays in publications such as the New York Times, Time Magazine and the Huffington Post. Professor Glaude will be giving the Annual Martin Luther King Day Lecture for the Enoch Pratt Library and Reginal F. Lewis Museum this Saturday, January 16, from 1-2pm. For more information on this free virtual event, click here.   Eddie Glaude’s latest book draws on his imaginative reading of James Baldwin and his own trenchant observations about the current American moment.  It's called Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.   Eddie Glaude joined us last August via Zoom…  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode W. Scott Olsen is talking to Adger Cowans.Adger Cowans, a fine arts photographer and abstract expressionist painter, has experimented with a myriad of mediums over his artistic career. Renowned in the world of photography and fine art, his works have been shown by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Museum of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard Fine Art Museum, Detroit Art Institute, James E. Lewis Museum and numerous other art institutions. This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES - high quality quarterly printed photography magazine.Click here to find out more about FRAMES Magazine and join our community.

When Kweisi Mfume resigned from Congress in 1996, a four-term Maryland Delegate named Elijah Cummings won a crowded special primary and special election to complete Mfume’s term. Cummings, who went on to become one of the most respected leaders in the Democratic Party, died in October. Last night, Mfume won a crowded special primary to succeed Cummings in MD’s 7th District. He will face-off in a special general election against first-time Republican candidate Kimberly Klacik, an occasional commentator on Fox News from Middle River. She has promised to move to the district if she is elected. Joining Tom with analysis of the election is WBAL-TV’s lead investigative reporter, Jayne Miller. In other election news: The Open Society Institute is holding a Mayoral Forum tonight at 7pm at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. It is sponsored by the Open Society Institute, and 24 of the 32 candidates running for Mayor of Baltimore are set to attend. Tom Hall will serve as moderator of that event with Lisa Snowden McCray of the Baltimore Beat and the Real News Network. Click here for more information.

2020 is the 15th anniversary of the Reginal F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture here is Baltimore City and Maryland Transit Times host Ken Berger talked with the museum’s executive director Jackie Copeland to learn more about its history and the exhibits that are on display. To hear the full interview, click on the link below. #ExploreBaltimore

Elizabeth Catlett received a Lifetime Achievement Award in contemporary sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2003. Decades earlier, Carnegie Institute of Technology revoked her admission when the school learned she was Black. Jackie Copeland, Executive Director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, tells us more about the groundbreaking artist.

Elizabeth Catlett received a Lifetime Achievement Award in contemporary sculpture from the International Sculpture Center in 2003. Decades earlier, Carnegie Institute of Technology revoked her admission when the school learned she was Black. Jackie Copeland, Executive Director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, tells us more about the groundbreaking artist.

Congressman Elijah Cummings: : A Baltimore Original A family, a city and a nation mourn the loss of Congressman Elijah Cummings. Learn more about this Baltimore icon and the legacy he leaves behind. #HOWCEE Radio Thanks Donna Owens Written by Donna Owens When Rep. Elijah Cummings departed this earth in the wee hours of October 17, 2019 following a series of health challenges, America lost a Congressman and a patriot. Baltimore, the city where Cummings was born and raised, lost a native son. “Elijah” as many friends and constituents simply called him, was the kind of elected official who could be seen pushing his cart down the aisles of Whole Foods Market. You might run into him soaking up Black history at the city's Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Or while dining at IHOP in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. The Congressman hosted an annual jobs fair that drew thousands, a Congressional art competition for high schoolers, and seminars for prospective college students. He was a consistent presence, advocating for organizations such as Roberta's House, a grief center in the city, and Associated Black Charities, a community nonprofit. A gifted orator, the lawmaker delivered speeches in his trademark booming voice at countless high school and college graduations.  Elijah Cummings will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol (Statuary Hall) next Thursday, Oct. 24. A private ceremony will be held for members of Congress, relatives and guests with a public viewing following. A public wake and funeral will be held on Friday, Oct. 25  beginning at 8 a.m. at New Psalmist in Baltimore.  

Linda Morris’s book is ----Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore----. She describes the isolated community as a haven for African-American families, and tells how her family withstood the indignity of segregation when they traveled out of their neighborhood.Fellow contributor Sidney Ellis reminisces about the joys of mother-daughter banquets and Linda’s brother attorney John Morris describes parents instilling a self-confidence that stays with him still.Hear more about the history of Cherry Hill at an event at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on September 7th. More information here. And check out the book's Facebook page to see photos.

What does America owe those who are descended from enslaved people? Who would qualify, and what form might reparations take? Who would decide? Can America atone for the sin of slavery?Last June, we talked about it in front of an audience at the Lewis Museum with Director Jackie Copeland, Professor Ray Winbush, columnist ER Shipp and Attorney Adjoa A. Aiyetoro.What does America owe those who are descended from enslaved people? Who would qualify, and what form might reparations take? Who would decide? Can America atone for the sin of slavery?

Today, two conversations about the power of food to unite people.Kwame Onwauchi, executive chef of the Afro-Carribean restaurant Kith and Kin in Washington DC, tells us about growing up in the Bronx and Nigeria, the dishes he grew up with, and his favorite snack. Onwauchi will be at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on August 8th. Details here.Then, the Market at Montebello aims to build community in Northeast Baltimore with healthy food vendors, music, cooking demos, and lakeside yoga. Founder Nicole Foster says the market, which runs the third Saturday of each month, is bringing neighbors together. And Kerry Leidquist, studio manager at Bikram Yoga Wellness Works, describes the benefits of outdoor yoga.The next market is Saturday, August 24th. Learn more about Foster's vegan ice cream company, Cajou, here.

Today, a special Juneteenth edition of Midday: Live from The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, in downtown Baltimore. Our topic today: Reparations: Can America Atone for the Sin of Slavery? As this program aired, a House Judiciary subcommittee was holding a hearing about HR 40, a bill that would create ----a Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.---- It is sponsored by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey has introduced a companion bill in the Senate. Booker is one of several Democratic candidates for President who have expressed their support for Reparations. So, what is it that they support? What would reparations look like? With 68% of Americans, including more than a third of African Americans, opposing compensation for descendants of slaves, what is the political viability of reparations legislation like HR40? Can America ever adequately atone for the sin of slavery?Midday's expert panel today explores the moral, economic and cultural dimensions of reparations. The panel includes:Dr. Ray Winbush is the director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. In addition to many articles, he has written has published two books about reparations: Belinda’s Petition: A Concise History of Reparations For The Transatlantic Slave Trade, and Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations.E.R. Shipp was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1996) for commentary. She is a founding faculty member of the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University, and a columnist with the Baltimore Sun. Adjoa A. Aiyetoro is a professor emerita at the William H. Bowen School of Law, and a founding member of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations (N’COBRA).Tom begins the program by inviting Jacqueline Copeland, the executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and our host for today's event, to briefly discuss the significance of the Juneteenth observance, and the role of the Lewis Museum in Baltimore's cultural and political landscape.We couldn't take any phone calls today, but we welcomed listener comments and questions via email, at midday@wypr.org, and on Twitter, @MiddayWYPR. We also streamed on the WYPR Facebook Page, and you can watch the video of the event here.

The books you read growing up stick with you for life.Hundreds of thousands of children’s books are distributed by the Maryland Book Bank each year. Executive Director Mike Feiring tells us about the book bank’s move to Clipper Mill, its mission to boost literacy, and how volunteers can help. Books for Kids Day is May 4th. More information here.Then, ahead of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum’s African-American Children’s Book Fair, author and former teacher Kenji Jackson explains why representation in children’s books matters. The African-American Children's Book Fair is May 11th.

Since 2016, Wanda Draper has served as the Executive Director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. In her two years as executive director, Baltimore native Wanda Draper has, by most accounts, breathed new life into the Lewis Museum. In 2018, for the first time in a decade, the museum was able to meet the state’s mandate to generate $2 million dollars in revenue; last June the museum launched a new website; and the musuem has seen an increases in visitation. Wanda Draper has announced her retirement next month. She joins Tom in Studio AThis conversation was streamed live on WYPR's Facebook Pate. You can watch the video here.

As we conclude this MLK Day Edition of Midday, Tom introduces us to a young student from Commodore John Rogers Middle School in Baltimore. Charlie Grace Martin is 11 years old. She is in the fifth grade, and she is the winner of the 2nd annual Dream Big Essay Contest. The contest is sponsored by the Modell Lyric. Baltimore City School Students from grades 5-12 are challenged to write a 300 word essay, inspired by Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech that he delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Students were asked to write about what their dreams were for themselves, their families and their communities. The awards ceremony is tonight at 6:00pm at the Modell Lyric in Baltimore.Also today: The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MD African American History and Culture had a number of events scheduled to mark Monday's Martin Luther King Day observance. Those events included a Living History Talk with Kevin Shird and Nelson Malden, the co-authors of The Colored Waiting Room. Nelson Malden was Dr. King’s barber for years in Montgomery, Alabama.At the close of this segment, we hear an excerpt from Dr. King's historic 1963 ----Dream---- speech. You can listen to the entire address at this NPR Website.

Even before his first solo exhibit in Harlem in 1940, artist Romare Bearden's focus was social change. He was a social worker for decades, as he enhanced his skills as a political cartoonist, painter and creator of collages. Bearden's art is on exhibit now at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. His niece Deidra Harris-Kelley, co director of the RoMARE Bearden Foundation, will speak about him on Saturday. She told us about her lecture titled: Artist as Activist.

Kwanzaa was founded more than half a century ago, aimed at connecting those in the African diaspora to their heritage.A seven-night harvest celebration, Kwanzaa centers around themes of community and culture. Kibibi Ajanku, founder of Baltimore’s Sankofa Dance Theater, tells us how she came to celebrate Kwanzaa and the holiday’s significance.More information about the Kwanzaa events at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum here.

Najee Dorsey in conversation with Ulysses Marshall. Mr. Marshall was born in 1946 in Vienna, Georgia. He was educated at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia in sociology. He received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Arts in Baltimore. Furthermore, he went onto receive his Masters degree from Baltimore, Maryland. He is the receipient of the Distinguished Whitney Independent Study Fellowship, New York. He has also received the Phillip Morris Fellowship and several Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Awards.Trained as a painter, Ulysses Marshall works principally in collage, paper doll and mixed media. His paintings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, John Heinz History Museum, Williams College, DeMenil Art Gallery and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.His works are also included in both private and public collections, in additions to lecturing at Colleges and Universities; he has continued to conduct workshops for children. "My goal as an artist is to use these story tales as a tool for sharing the plight of the almost forgotten colored people. I wish to preserve the pride, dignity, courage, and survival of a people's journey from slavery to slave. A people whose lives have been bent, but not broken." SUBSCRIBE & LIKE for more podcasts #BAIAtalksPODCAST BLACK ART IN AMERICA™ (BAIA) is a leading online portal and network focused on African-American Art with visitors from over 100 countries visiting our site each month and about half a million visitors to our social media pages. Check out the resources below for more info. ** Resources ** Become a Patreon www.patreon.com/blackartinamerica Educational Resources blackartinamerica.com/index.php/educ…nal-resources/ FREE course on Getting Started Collecting Art tinyurl.com/startcollectingart Visit our Curated Shop shopbaiaonline.com/ Buy and Sell Black Art in our Marketplace buyblackart.com/ **Social** Facebook www.facebook.com/BlackArtInAmerica/ Instagram www.instagram.com/blackartinamerica_ Twitter twitter.com/baiaonline **Our Website** blackartinamerica.com/

Najee Dorsey in conversation with Robin Holder. Robin is represented in significant collections including the Library of Congress, the Clark Atlanta Collection, Yale University, The Washington State Arts Commission, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Paul R. Jones Collection of the University of Delaware, The Art Collection of Florida A&M University, The African American Museum of Cleveland, Telavi State University and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She has served as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant with numerous cultural, educational and art institutions. "Racism, classism and social injustice are my motivation. My work exposes layers upon layers of cultural, political, religious and economic inequities and entitlement. I employ a combination of printmaking, drawing, painting and collaging techniques to create visual narratives that reveal challenging views of our diverse American identity. I invite you to engage in, internalize and acknowledge these uncomfortable realities. Share your truth in generating compassion and an expanded awareness of what America looks like !" SUBSCRIBE & LIKE for more podcasts #BAIAtalksPODCAST BLACK ART IN AMERICA™ (BAIA) is a leading online portal and network focused on African-American Art with visitors from over 100 countries visiting our site each month and about half a million visitors to our social media pages. Check out the resources below for more info. ** Resources ** Become a Patreon www.patreon.com/blackartinamerica Educational Resources blackartinamerica.com/index.php/educ…nal-resources/ FREE course on Getting Started Collecting Art tinyurl.com/startcollectingart Visit our Curated Shop shopbaiaonline.com/ Buy and Sell Black Art in our Marketplace buyblackart.com/ **Social** Facebook www.facebook.com/BlackArtInAmerica/ Instagram www.instagram.com/blackartinamerica_ Twitter twitter.com/baiaonline **Our Website** blackartinamerica.com/

"Speaking of My History" season 1 episode 4 - Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was the richest African-American man in the 1980s. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood. He won a football scholarship to Virginia State College, graduating with a degree in economics in 1965. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1968 and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Recruited to top New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP immediately after law school, Lewis left to start his own firm two years later. After 15 years as a corporate lawyer with his own practice, Lewis focused on corporate law, structuring investments in minority-owned businesses and became special counsel to major corporations like General Foods and Equitable Life (now AXA). Mr. Lewis was also counsel to the New York-based Commission for Racial Justice and represented The Wilmington Ten. He was successful in forcing North Carolina to pay interest on the Wilmington Ten bond. he moved to the other side of the table by creating TLC Group L.P., a venture capital firm, in 1983. His first major deal was the purchase of the McCall Pattern Company, a home sewing pattern business, for $22.5 million. Lewis had learned from a Fortune magazine article that the Esmark holding company, which had recently purchased Norton Simon, planned to divest from the McCall Pattern Company, a maker of home sewing patterns founded in 1870. With fewer and fewer people sewing at home, McCall was seemingly on the decline—though it had posted profits of $6 million in 1983 on sales of $51.9 million. At the time, McCall was number two in its industry, holding 29.7 percent of the market, compared to industry leader Simplicity Patterns with 39.4 percent. He managed to negotiate the price down, then raised $1 million himself from family and friends and borrowed the rest from institutional investors and investment banking firm First Boston Corp. Within a year, he turned the company around by freeing up capital tied in fixed assets such as building and machinery, and finding a new use for machinery during downtime by manufacturing greeting card. In 1987, Lewis bought Beatrice International Foods from Beatrice Companies for $985 million, renaming it TLC Beatrice International, a snack food, beverage, and grocery store conglomerate that was the largest African-American owned and managed business in the U.S. The deal was partly financed through Mike Milken of the maverick investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert. In order to reduce the amount needed to finance the leveraged buyout, Lewis came up with a plan to sell off some of the division's assets simultaneous with the takeover. When TLC Beatrice reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 1987, it became the first black-owned company to have more than $1 billion in annual sales. At its peak in 1996, TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. had sales of $2.2 billion and was number 512 on Fortune magazine's list of 1,000 largest companies. In 1992, Lewis donated $3 million to Harvard Law School, the largest grant at the time in the school's history.[5] The school renamed its International Law Center the Reginald F. Lewis International Law Center, the first major facility at Harvard named in honor of an African-American on January 19, 1993 (aged 50) New York City, Lewis died , from brain cancer. Mr. Lewis wife Loida Lewis took over the company a year after his death.[11] Loida Lewis currently Chairs the Reginald F. Lewis (RFL) Foundation, which also supports the Reginald F. Lewis College of Business at Virginia State University. In 2005, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture opened in Baltimore with the support of a $5 million grant from his foundation.[7] It is the East Coast's largest African American museum occupying an 82,000 square-foot facility with permanent and special exhibition space.

Will Schwarz, a Baltimore-based filmmaker and video producer, founded the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project to remember the 40 documented victims of lynchings in the state, the last being George Armwood, who was killed by a mob on the Eastern Shore 85 years ago this week. The Maryland project is part of a national movement, led by civil rights advocate Bryan Stevenson and his Equal Justice Initiative. On Saturday, at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, the names of Maryland lynching victims were read aloud, and Schwarz screened his short documentary on the Armwood lynching. In this episode: Will Schwarz talks about his ongoing project to collect soil from the grounds where Maryland lynchings took place and to get Maryland counties to memorialize the atrocities and the victims. We hear comments from Stevenson and excerpts from Schwarz's film.For more information: See the Sun's multimedia presentation on Maryland's grim legacy of lynching and hear previous episodes of Roughly Speaking on a student project to account for the lynchings and an oral history of the aftermath of Armwood's death by the late Clarence Mitchell Jr.

On today’s show, a conversation about the legacy of Jim Crow, representation, race and reclaiming racial stereotypes. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MD African American History and Culture has traveling exhibition from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Michigan. It’s called Hateful Things, and it includes objects from the 19th century through the present that dehumanize African Americans, and show, in striking and disturbing ways, how the pernicious legacy of Jim Crow continues to weave itself into the fabric of the American story. On Saturday afternoon, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies is presenting a panel at the Lewis Museum called “Unpacking Hateful Things ---- Contemporary Practices.” Today, Tom welcomes two of the panelists to Studio A: Vernu257u Myers, the recently appointed Vice President of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, and author of the books: Moving Diversity Forward: How to Move from Well-Meaning to Well-Doing, and What if I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People.And, Dr. Lester Spence, a political scientist on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University. His latest book is called Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics. Dr. Spence will be moderating the panel, which also includes the literary historian Lawrence Jackson, the cultural historian Martha Jones, and the political scientist Rob Lieberman. Our conversation was streamed live on WYPR’s Facebook page.

Storytelling has been a constant in Wanda Draper’s life. The executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture got her start in journalism and has since held various positions in communications. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Wanda worked at the Evening Sun, and has also held positions at the National Aquarium and most recently at WBAL-TV as director of programming and public affairs. Wanda has been at the Lewis Museum since September, following the retirement of A. "Skipp" Sanders, and she talked about what led to her career change and what helped her survive in male-dominated newsrooms. She also discussed how she’s addressing some of the museum’s challenges, how Freddie Gray shifted the paradigm in Baltimore and commanding respect.

5:36: NPR's Cokie Roberts: The longtime political analyst and author has a new book, this one about women of Washington before, during and after the Civil War. Roberts shares a few tales from "Capital Dames," with some fascinating connections to Baltimore and Maryland, including the woman at the center of a deadly scandal involving the son of Francis Scott Key.1:57, 29:30: Two books reviews from Paula Gallagher: A memoir by David Kushner, a Rolling Stone contributor, about his brother, Jon, who was kidnapped and murdered in Florida in 1973; and a collection of essays called, "The Books That Changed My Life."32:59: The Reginald F. Lewis Museum on the anniversary of the Baltimore uprising: Charles Bethea, its new chief curator, talks about the Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture's look into issues about the American black male raised by the death of Freddie Gray.

Jacob Lawrence is one of the most important and renowned artists of the 20th Century. His paintings and prints offer rich portrayals of black life including his famed Migration Series which captured the mass migration of African Americans from the South to the North and Western US after the first World War, and his Toussaint L'Ouverture series about the famed leader of the Haitian Slave Revolt. Now, over 50 of Jacob Lawrence’s paintings and prints are on display at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History ---- Culture to celebrate what would have been Lawrence’s 100th birthday. Charles Bethea joins Tom to talk about the Maryland Collects: Jacob Lawrence exhibition. Charles is the chief curator and Director of Collections and Exhibitions at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum.

During decades of Jim Crow, African-American travelers couldn?t be sure what they?d face at a strange restaurant, a hotel, even a gas station. Would the door be slammed in their face, or worse? The Green Book , an annual listing of establishments welcoming black customers, started in the late ?30s. We speak with Anne Bruder , a State Highway Administration historian who is researching Green Book businesses in Maryland. We also talk with Traci Wright of the Park School, who discusses the Green Book with students from several high schools on an annual Civil Rights trip and also with civil-rights icon Dr. Helena Hicks , who recalls using the guide when she traveled for her work. Anne Bruder will speak about her research Aug. 5 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. You can find more information on her talk here .

Dr. Carla Hayden joins Tom for her first interview since being confirmed by the Senate July 13 as the next Librarian of Congress. After 23 years in what most people consider a transformative tenure as the CEO of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, Dr. Hayden next month will become the first woman and the first African American to hold the most high-profile library post in the nation. Then, Producer Bridget Armstrong visits the Reginald F. Lewis Museum’s latest exhibition, called Now, That’s Cool! It features rare artifacts, like an original picture of Frederick Douglass, from a decidedly not-so-cool era of slavery. Plus, theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews The Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's new production of Julius Caesar . And historian Lawrence Jackson on The City That Bleeds . He wrote a provocative essay in the July issue of Harper’s on Freddie Gray and the legacy of inequality that seeded last year’s uprising.

A new exhibit, "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," was on view at the Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education through March 29, 2011. The exhibit, which chronicles the careers of trailblazing African American surgeons, is also serving as a backdrop to an important discussion about race and medicine and social determinants in health. "Opening Doors" was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, and it was brought to New Mexico by the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center.