Half American
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black Americans fighting World War II—at home and overseas. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the […]
Smile For We
The Baton Foundation will host a conversation about Black men…and their smiles. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book The idea for Smile For We was born in response to recent instances of police brutality against Black men around the country. Often depicted as gang members, deadbeat dads, […]
The Importance of Cultural Heritage Instruction for Black Boys
We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point-one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple. ~Mamie Till Mobley It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~Frederick Douglass Cultural Heritage Program Orientation Overview Initiated in 2016, The Baton Foundation is excited to host the eighth […]
Red Hot City
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the policies, politics and economics that led to Atlanta’s racialized gentrification. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Atlanta is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, capital-driven growth has excluded low-income people and […]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the first book-length autobiography by a formerly enslaved Black woman. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program Koritha Mitchell's edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is no ordinary edition. Besides faithfully reproducing Harriet Jacobs’ 1861 narrative, […]
Remaking the Republic
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about Black politics and the creation of American citizenship. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Citizenship in nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over […]
Howard Thurman’s Atlanta: Nonviolence, Civil Rights, and Mystical Thought
The Baton Foundation will host a conversation about the role Atlanta played in the life and work of Howard Thurman. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program Using Peter Eisenstadt’s book, Against the Hounds of Hell: A Life of Howard Thurman (University of Virginia Press, 2021), as the […]
King: A Life
The Baton Foundation will host a conversation with author Jonathan Eig about his new biography of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life (Macmillan, 2023) is the first major biography in decades […]
Afro-Hispanic Painter Juan de Pareja
The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter (April 3 – July 16, 2023). This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Program Dr. David Pullins, associate curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of […]
Georgia’s Long Struggle Toward Democracy: The Role of the Press, Then and Now
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 […]
Celebrating the Season…Honoring Self
The Baton Foundation will host a virtual expressive arts workshop to help center us during the holiday season. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Workshop With the holiday season upon us and a new year just weeks away, this virtual expressive arts workshop will encourage participants to reflect […]
America’s Black Capital
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, […]