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Lawrence jackson

A highly decorative hand-embroidered tapestry, or sampler, on display at Baltimore’s St. James Episcopal Church

Community

Threads of history

Published July 1, 2024

Johns Hopkins' Inheritance Baltimore effort helps return a 19th-century embroidered sampler to a Black Baltimore church in time to celebrate its 200th anniversary

History and humanities

Mellon Foundation awards $4 million to Inheritance Baltimore project

Published Jan 14, 2021

The project will pioneer new methods of instruction, research, and archival preservation that bring the history of the Black Baltimoreans to the fore

A singer performs at the inaugural Billie Holiday Jazz Festival

ARTS

Project combines art, history, scholarly research, and community outreach

Published Sept 20, 2019

Lawrence Jackson's Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts aims to document the history of African American life in Baltimore and foster intellectual ties between the university and the community

Higher education

Billie Holiday Project hosts college access luncheon

Published May 28, 2019

Baltimore's highest-achieving high school juniors joined Hopkins students, faculty, and staff for a discussion of pathways to higher education

Lawrence Jackson and Matthew Porterfield

Two from Hopkins earn prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships

Published April 11, 2019

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Lawrence Jackson, Film and Media Studies lecturer Matt Porterfield among 168 scholars, artists, and writers recognized for achievements and promise