The Conversation Continues…

On Monday, April 23, the University of Baltimore’s semester-long conversation about the history and impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign continues with Aaron Bryant, the curator of photography and visual culture at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bryant’s City of Hope: Resurrection City & the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s daring vision to end poverty in the United States and includes newly discovered photographs and videos. The exhibition encourages visitors to explore this important chapter in U.S. history.

Read Bryant’s bio at https://newsdesk.si.edu/factsheets/more-picture-bios 
http://blogs.ubalt.edu/poorpeoplescampaign/speaker-bios/

On Monday, April 16, the University of Baltimore’s semester-long conversation about the history and impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign continues with A. Adar Ayira, a member of the senior leadership team at Associated Black Charities. The presentation, interview, and audience Q&A will be facilitated by Marc Steiner.

Read Ayira’s bio at https://civilrights.baltimorecity.gov/adar-ayira http://blogs.ubalt.edu/poorpeoplescampaign/speaker-bios/

The session will take place beginning at 5:30 p.m. in UB’s Town Hall, located in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, 1415 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201.

This event, as are all events in UB’s semester-long examination of King’s legacy and its impact on social justice today, is free and open to the public.

Expert on Policies for (and against) America’s Poor, 50 years after MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign, March 12

The University of Baltimore’s semester-long conversation about the history and impact of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign will continue on Monday, March 12, when Peter Edelman, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center, will present, via Skype, his singular perspective on poverty in the U.S. The presentation, interview, and audience Q&A will be facilitated by Marc Steiner. The session will take place beginning at 5:30 p.m. in UB’s Town Hall, located in the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, 1415 Maryland Ave. This event, as are all events in UB’s semester-long examination at King’s legacy and its impact on social justice today, is free and open to the public.

In addition to his Georgetown Law professorship and direction of the Center on Poverty and Inequality there, Peter Edelman is the author of Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America and So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America (The New Press). He was a top advisor and speechwriter for Senator Robert F. Kennedy on poverty and related issues. He served in the Clinton administration and resigned as the assistant director for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services immediately after President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Since that time he has been a scholar, thought leader, author, and activist on policies affecting America’s poor.

Marc Steiner has been a fixture in Baltimore media and public affairs for 25 years, beginning with his radio show on WJHU, which continued on WYPR and WEAA. He has become one of the most recognized voices in Maryland and has gained national acclaim for his insightful style of interviewing. As president of the Center for Emerging Media, he won a Peabody Award, the most distinguished award in broadcast media, for the series “Just Words.” Mr. Steiner participated in the Poor People’s Campaign, spending five weeks during 1968 in “Resurrection City” (on the National Mall).

 

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Ciera Dunlap (Youth Empowered Society–YES), Sara Pratt (Relman, Dane & Colfax), Jeff Singer (CASH: City Advocates in Solidarity with the Homeless), Tony Simmons (Baltimore’s Right to Housing Alliance), Anthony Williams (Journey Home Consumer Advisory Committee) will discuss the developments, policies, and laws that bear on the Housing Crisis.

Speaker bios can be found here.

Poor People’s Campaign: 50 Years Later:
Join us on Monday, March 5, 5:30 p.m. at the University of Baltimore H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, Town Hall 1415 Maryland Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201.

This event is free and open to all.

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On Monday, February 12 at 5:30 pm, three direct participants in the campaign—the University of Baltimore’s Lenneal Henderson, the Center for Emerging Media’s Marc Steiner, and Robert Houston, whose first professional assignment was to photograph the campaign, which led to a landmark in photographic journalism—will consider the Poor People’s Campaign as an occurrence of its time as well as a harbinger of the re-emergent economic activism of recent years.

Joshua Clark Davis, assistant professor in the Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies and author of Head Shops to Whole Foods, will update one thread of the economic initiative to broaden participation through the efforts of cooperatives. Elizabeth M. Nix, associate professor in the Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies and a nationally recognized expert on Baltimore’s unrest following King’s murder in 1968, will serve as interlocutor for this and the subsequent session. Nix co-edited an anthology entitled Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City and co-wrote Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences.

Poor People’s Campaign: 50 Years Later:
Join us on Monday, Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m. at the University of Baltimore H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, Town Hall 1415 Maryland Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201.

This event is free and open to all.

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On Monday, February 5 at 5:30 pm, guest speaker, Dr. Gordon Mantler, author of Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974 (Justice, Power, and Politics), will be examining Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and its impact on social justice today.

Poor People’s Campaign: 50 Years Later:
Join us on Monday, Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m. at the University of Baltimore H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, Town Hall 1415 Maryland Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201.

Click here to RSVP.

This event is free and open to all.