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  • 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 […]

  • 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 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. […]

  • 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 […]