Please join us at the Inheritance Baltimore and the Struggle for Just Futures: Cultural Work as Reparations November 14-16. Register here.

Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation (IB) is a grant-funded program at Johns Hopkins University, support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through its Just Futures grant initiative. IB is a joint programming and research effort to preserve Black archival resources, curate Black arts and public heritage, and expand local infrastructure for freedom education. IB also provides support for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty committed to documenting the history of institutional racism in the formation of academic disciplines at and outward from Johns Hopkins University. The Chloe Center is one of the main partners that has supported IB since 2021.

The fall conference represents a culmination of four years of community-engaged archival practice, Black cultural arts programing, applied teaching and learning pedagogy, anti-racist research and practice, and cultural practitioners’ development. In partnership with diverse Black Baltimore cultural and religious organizations, we co-created events, ranging from archiving family artifacts to celebrating underappreciated community members, such as elders, artists and pioneers. Grounding our community-engaged practice in social justice, internally we sought to create a relationship of repair with Black Baltimore cultural and religious organizations, which is needed when navigating relationships with Black Baltimore due to the historically extractive and one-sided relationship Hopkins had with the Black Baltimore community. Just community engagement, uplifting diverse ways of knowing, and creating equitable relational practices is central to the work that we do. In a summative and culminating way, we want to share our lessons learned with the larger community. We hope you can join us for some or all of the conference!

The entire conference is open to all members of our community: students, faculty, staff, and members of the public. It will take place at several sites in Baltimore. Chloe Center affiliates will participate specifically in a few events:

Friday, November 15 (Scott-Bates Commons, Salon C):
Racism and Repair: Case Studies in the History of Johns Hopkins panel from 11:30am to 12:30pm
featuring: Archaeology, Emergency Medicine, English, Hematology
Pastries, Posters, and Pedagogy from 12:30pm to 2:00pm (lunch provided)
featuring: Chloe Center postdoctoral fellows, graduate teaching assistants, Critical Diaspora Studies major, Black Panther Party research project, etc.

Saturday, November 16 (Unity Hall, 1505 Eutaw Place):
Repair and Reentry in Baltimore panel from 11:00am to 12:00pm
featuring: Tia Hamilton (Urban Reads Bookstore/The State Vs. Us magazine), Dayvon Love (Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle), Monica Cooper (Maryland Justice Project)

Saturday, November 16 (Reginald F. Lewis Museum, 830 Pratt St.):
Closing Reception from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (refreshments and DJ provided)