2021 Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture: Writing Baltimore: A Personal Journey of Lived Experience & Narrative Control

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The Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts in partnership with the Center for Africana Studies presents the Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture, an annual lecture that honors the life of one of Baltimore's promising young leaders who lost his life more than thirty years ago to Baltimore's endemic violence crisis.

This year's inaugural speaker, D. Watkins, is a celebrated author, social critic, Baltimore native, and editor-at-large at Salon. Lawrence P. Jackson, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and director of the Billie Holiday Project, will host a conversation with D. Watkins following the lecture. Join a conversation to address issues connecting the work of the arts to the renewal and revitalization of civic life in West Baltimore.

Please attend the event by joining the livestream on April 22.

Each year, the Billie Holiday Project invites a distinguished arts practitioner and intellectual to address topical, historical, or philosophical issues connecting the work of the arts to the renewal and revitalization of civic life in West Baltimore. The Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture is the Billie Holiday Project's capstone annual public event. The Donald Bentley Annual Memorial Lecture is a unique platform to drive debate and critical reflection on the role of the arts in our everyday lives and in our imagining of a future just world.