• Amazing Grace

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

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host an in-person film screening that traces the behind-the-scenes recording of Aretha […]

  • AILEY

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

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host an in-person film screening about the life, work and legacy of […]

  • The Spirit of Soul Food

    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 the history of Black American […]

  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the social construction of race through the invention […]

  • Searching for Freedom: The George H. White Story

    Pittsburgh Yards 352 University Avenue, SW, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a film screening and Q & A about Post-Reconstruction Congressman George […]

  • The Revival of Proslavery Thought in America

    Pittsburgh Yards 352 University Avenue, SW, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the resurgence of proslavery thought in the United […]

  • An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

    The Baton Foundation, in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, will host a lecture about the intersectional history of the Black and Native […]

  • “Ground Crew” Essay Contest

    CONTEST NARRATIVE For more than half a century, the Civil Rights Movement has been remembered, in large part, by the narratives schools, media, and cultural institutions have promulgated with regards […]

  • Choctaw Confederates

    The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the nexus of the Choctaw Nation, the Confederacy and enslaved Blacks. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black […]

  • What the Children Told Us

    The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the lives and work of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark—the originators of the famous "doll test". This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists […]

  • Of Blood and Sweat

    The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about how Black women and men helped to build wealth and power in U.S. institutions. This program is free to the public, but registration is required. About the Book In Of Blood and Sweat (Harper Collins Publishers, 2022), Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men […]