Inheritance Baltimore conference to highlight reparations, Black liberation

Inheritance Baltimore, a reparations program through Johns Hopkins University, will hold a three-day conference on Nov. 14-16. The conference, titled “Inheritance Baltimore and the Struggle for Just Futures: Cultural Work as Reparations,” will highlight the group’s work over the past four years. Inheritance Baltimore has involved three Hopkins units – the Billie Holiday Center for Liberations Arts; the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism; and the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections – working to expand humanities and arts education across Baltimore, specifically engaging the city’s Black residents. Sign up to receive the latest news from Baltimore Fishbowl, delivered to your inbox every weekday “Inheritance Baltimore serves as a drafting table for the university to reckon with and redress its own failures to put knowledge created in Black Baltimore on an equal footing with knowledge created in seminar rooms past and present. Inheritance Baltimore focuses the energy of freedom education and directs it toward Black liberation,” reads the group’s website. Some of Inheritance Baltimore’s work has included the annual Walk of Remembrance to name and honor the people who were enslaved on the Homewood campus; an exhibition highlighting the life of singer Ethel Ennis, Baltimore’s First Lady...