• The Nation That Never Was

    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 […]

  • What’s Your Street Race? Why We Must Add a Street Race Question in Federal Standards and Beyond for Advancing Equity in Black Diasporic Communities

    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 […]

  • A New Year, A New Beginning

    The Baton Foundation will host a virtual expressive arts workshop to help individuals ground themselves as we begin a new year -- and a new chapter in American history. About […]

  • Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

    About the Book Riding Jane Crow tells the overlooked story of Black women on American trains, from before the Civil War to more contemporary times. How did Black intellectual women such as Ida B. Wells fight racial segregation through lawsuits, before the (in)famous Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896? Who were the Black […]

  • An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South

    About the Book Between Fort Sumter and Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands of Black men, women, and children through a persisting trade in enslaved people. They did so for […]