The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the role of Black press leaders in Georgia’s ongoing struggle for democracy. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program Georgia and its capital city, Atlanta, have long played a central role in the U.S. struggle to achieve the democratic ideals […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about how African Americans remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book America’s Black Capital (Basic Books, 2023) tells the remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, […]

The Baton Foundation will host a conversation with journalist and author Antonia Hylton about her new book that centers mental illness, slavery, and racial segregation in the United States. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (Hachette Book […]

The Baton Foundation will host a conversation about the hidden history of Black civil rights. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In a brilliant rethinking of civil rights, Dylan C. Penningroth’s Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2023) changes the […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the importance of Black elders during the eras of enslavement and emancipation. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Would there have been a Frederick Douglass if it were not for Betsy Bailey, the grandmother who raised him? Would Harriet […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the efforts underway in Mexico to recognize African-descendant Mexicans as a distinct cultural group. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Through historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico (University Press of Florida, 2023), delves into the ongoing movement toward […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the day-to-day brutalities endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychological abuse. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing young people in Washington, […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the enduring myth of the so-called American story. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book There’s a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the perception of race in U.S. society and how we must rethink it. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program This presentation will focus on the urgency of employing intersectionality as a transformational and ethical vision for data infrastructure that […]

The Baton Foundation will host Elmer Dixon as he talks about his journey from co-founder of the first Black Panther Party chapter outside California to diversity consultant. About the Book This powerful memoir, with a foreword by former Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, sets the record straight about the altruistic mission of the Black […]