The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a virtual lecture about the decisive role Black women played in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Black women living in […]

The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a virtual lecture about Black consciousness from a leading philosopher. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the […]

The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about Black visitors to the Lincoln White House and their impact on him and race relations in the country. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about how Black women and men helped to build wealth and power in U.S. institutions. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In Of Blood and Sweat (Harper Collins Publishers, 2022), Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men […]

The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black love and the village that nurtures and sustains it. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program In recognition of Valentine’s Day, this program will shift the focus away from romantic love to, instead, focus on the love we each […]