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  • Wakanda Forever: Remembering the Life and Work of Chadwick Boseman

    The Baton Foundation will host a community discussion to celebrate Chadwick Boseman’s life and extraordinary work. This program is free. Registration is required. About the Program The world seemed to stop, if only briefly, when Chadwick Aaron Boseman died on August 28, 2020. His short life was exceptional and steeped in history. Over the course […]

  • Homemade Citizenship: All But Inviting Injury

    The Baton Foundation is thrilled to host an author discussion about American citizenship vis-à-vis the Black experience in the United States. This program is free, but registration is required. Program […]

  • Contagions of Empire: A Conversation With Professor Khary Polk

    The Baton Foundation is excited to host an author discussion with Professor Khary Polk about his recently published book, Contagions of Empire. This program is free, but registration is required. About the Book Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 (University of North Carolina Press, June 2020) examines how the movement […]

  • A Sense of Connection

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History is proud to present a film screening of A Sense of Connection—a documentary […]

  • Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library for African American Culture and History, is thrilled to offer a lecture about the life and work of civil rights activist Helen Nannie Burroughs. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) is one […]

  • Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, is excited to host a conversation about Madam C. J. Walker’s legacy of philanthropy between author Dr. Tyrone Freeman and Erika M. Smith. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Founder […]

  • An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, is excited to host a lecture about the consequential role Blacks, Latinx and Indigenous peoples played in creating the United States. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book Spanning more than […]

  • It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, is honored to host a conversation between author Steve Fiffer and Al Vivian about the life and work of his father, Civil Rights Movement icon Dr. C. T. Vivian. This program is free to the public, but registration […]

  • South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to Civil War

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the confluence of Mexican and United States history during the antebellum era. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico […]