Events
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Die Standing: From Black Panther Revolutionary to Global Diversity Consultant
The Baton Foundation will host Elmer Dixon as he talks about his journey from co-founder of the first Black Panther Party chapter outside California to diversity consultant. About the Book […]
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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 […]
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Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
About the Book Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it is possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also […]
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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 […]
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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 […]