The Black Intellectual Tradition
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the many thought perspectives behind the fight for racial justice as developed by various segments of the Black community. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book […]
Amazing Grace
Auburn Avenue Research Library 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host an in-person film screening that traces the behind-the-scenes recording of Aretha Franklin’s best-selling album. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Film Recorded in January 1972 at the New Temple […]
AILEY
Auburn Avenue Research Library 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host an in-person film screening about the life, work and legacy of Alvin Ailey. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Film Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation […]
The Spirit of Soul Food
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the confluence of the history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Soul food […]
Birth of a White Nation
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the social construction of race through the invention of white people. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People […]
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture in which the authors advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment, redress, and closure. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Racism and […]
Searching for Freedom: The George H. White Story
Pittsburgh Yards 352 University Avenue, SW, Atlanta, GeorgiaThe Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a film screening and Q & A about Post-Reconstruction Congressman George Henry White. This program is funded by Atlanta Civic Site–The Annie E. Casey Foundation and is free to the public. Registration is required. About the […]
The Revival of Proslavery Thought in America
Pittsburgh Yards 352 University Avenue, SW, Atlanta, GeorgiaThe Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the resurgence of proslavery thought in the United States. This program is funded by Atlanta Civic Site – The Annie E. Casey Foundation and is free to the public. Registration is required. About […]
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America. This program is free to the […]
“Ground Crew” Essay Contest
CONTEST NARRATIVE For more than half a century, the Civil Rights Movement has been remembered, in large part, by the narratives schools, media, and cultural institutions have promulgated with regards to the Movement’s icons. Dr. King and Rosa Parks often are at the center of those narratives, and for good reason. The struggle to secure […]
Choctaw Confederates
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the nexus of the Choctaw Nation, the Confederacy and enslaved Blacks. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black […]
What the Children Told Us
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the lives and work of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark—the originators of the famous "doll test". This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists […]