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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]