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  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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. […]

  • Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

    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 […]

  • Get Off My Neck

    Auburn Avenue Research Library 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA, United States

    The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the injustices and racial inequities in the U.S. criminal legal system. This in-person program is free to the public, but registration is […]