Latest Past Events

Black Studies in a Dark Conjuncture

Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore

Join us as Dr. Robbie Shilliam (JHU) & Erica Caines (Black Alliance for Peace) discusses how local organizing efforts in Baltimore connect to broader international movements against imperialism and state violence, both historically and in the present day. The event promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking dialogue on Black Studies, activism, and global solidarity.

Authors & Insights

On April 29, we will host a special art edition of Authors & Insights at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, featuring cultural icon and first ever host of YO! MTV Raps Fab 5 Freddy in conversation with Peabody’s Head of Hip Hop Studies, Wendel Patrick. Fred and Wendel will discuss Fred’s new memoir Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing […]

Free Concert – I’m Gonna Let it Shine!

This concert represents an incredible, unique opportunity to hear Black sacred music from three historic congregations rooted in West Baltimore—as well as their connections to secular music, thanks to the Peabody Jazz Studies program’s student ensemble… all taking place “in situ,” in the beautiful sanctuary of St. James Episcopal Church.