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How are the Children?
Mental health issues are plaguing our youth and young adults. Our young people are not mentally or emotionally healthy. The stress to perform, to be the best, to make the team, to present your best self on social media, to emulate a celebrity is simply not sustainable. Too few have the ability to cope with life’s pressures. While most don’t resort to violence, it is well documented that young people are not effectively dealing with conditions such as anxiety, stress, and depression.
Accountability is not Justice!
On April 20, 2021, 12 individuals agreed that former police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George P. Floyd. He was found guilty on all three counts. The reading of the verdict was a moment of both jubilation and vindication. I could see the ancestors – Emmett and Mamie Till, James Chaney, Medgar Evers, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
#SayHerName
The significance of March 2020 will go down in the history books. Not simply for being the month, the world realized we had entered into a global pandemic with the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, but also because a young woman’s life was taken in Louisville, Kentucky.
Follow the Science
The Lewis Museum wants to exemplify excellence in all we do. On Thursday, February 25, Kaiser Permanente and The Lewis held the second annual African Americans in Healthcare Awards. This most important and timely topic provided an opportunity for us to honor…
Media Releases
The Lewis Museum, Baltimore National Heritage Area to hosting screening and panel discussion on squeegee worker doc
The Lewis Museum and the Baltimore National Heritage Area will host a free screening of the documentary By Any Means Necessary: Stories of Survival on Tuesday, October 18th.
Reading As Resistance Book Fair, Geoffrey Owens reads Shakespeare cap a weekend of Reading The Culture
Reading As Resistance Book Fair, Geoffrey Owens read Shakespeare
Closing Out Summer at The Lewis Museum – Black Masculinity, Sports and Social Justice
Men of Change, All On The Court extend runs; Keith Clinkscales to moderate Racing Forward panel
Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project announce partnership to develop first state-wide monument to lynching in the U.S.
Terri Lee Freeman was appointed Thursday as the newest executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, capping a tumultuous year for the institution.
What’s New
Hecht Collection
Louis G. Hecht and Shirly F. Hecht donated over 3,500 original 78 RPM and LP jazz song recordings in 2009 to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
Waka Sran Baule Figure
Made of wood, this male figure is known as a waka sran by the Baule People of Côte d’Ivoire.
Family Bible
Inside this Family Bible at least two unrelated families faithfully recorded their history.
Junetta Jones
Junetta Jones was the first African American to win a three year competitive scholarship from the Peabody Institution