Minkah Makalani's Worlds of Hip-Hop: Helena Hicks Emancipation School Series
November 18th, 6:30pm, Union Baptist Church: Honoring Baltimore’s living legend Helena Hicks, our fall lecture series features 40-minute presentations from the Johns Hopkins faculty. Professor Minkah Makalani, Director of the JHU Center for Africana Studies, will present the mini-course, "Worlds of Hip Hop", which explores the evolution of hip-hop culture. Registered participants of all three mini-courses will receive a certificate of completion from the JHU Helena Hicks Emancipation School. Register here.

Metropolitan Church celebrates 196-year history
The Holiday Center's Community Archives Program (CAP) team, comprised of Megan McShea, Tonika Berkley, Angela Rodgers-Koukoui, Deyane Moses and Bria Warren, with assistance by Christina Thomas, have worked over the past several months with Metropolitan's Senior Pastor and history committee to create an inventory of documents, programs, church relics, and photographs from the churches archives. Most recently, the CAP team assisted with updating Metropolitan’s exhibition hall by reorganizing the exhibition cases, installing new labels and lighting, displaying church banners and curating media stations showcasing church events in anticipation of Metropolitan’s Annual Gala on November 13 & 14, celebrating the church’s 196^th anniversary.

Fellows & Staff lend technical assistance to the Afro Newspaper Archives
Our Community Archives Team assisted Afro Charities with verifying their inventory of 600+ boxes with the box labels, assembling archival quality boxes, labeling the boxes and rehousing the materials in preparation for transport to a new archival storage facility.


Artist-in-Residence D. Watkins to pilot new game for youth
In addition to working on his latest nonfiction book project, renowned Baltimore writer D. Watkins has utilized his artist residency to develop a game experience for young men and boys that is designed to inspire personal and critical examination of attitudes about black masculinity. Through moderated group dialogue, the game also aims to foster productive dialogue about healthy male relationships.

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Fellowship/Assistantship Opportunities for Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences

The Holiday Project is sponsoring two year-long assistantships for graduate students: (1) Johns Hopkins-Morgan State University Graduate Teaching Fellowship (starting Fall 2022) for advanced doctoral students interested in contributing to innovative course development using Africana archives and object-based teaching; and (2) Johns Hopkins-HBCU Graduate Assistantships for Programming and Digital Publishing open to MA and PhD students at JHU, Morgan State University, Coppin State University, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Bowie State University to support symposium planning, oral history compilation, and publishing of the “Baltimore Africana Archives” catalog. Applications will be posted on the Billie Holiday Center's website in January 2022. For immediate information, contact Prof. Kali-Ahset Amen at kali.amen@jhu.edu.