January 10, 2023
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January 6, 2023
The Baltimore County Coalition of the MLMP will be hosting the 4th Annual Community Forum on January 14, 2023 at Goucher College. The in-person, free, public program will include a film screening and discussion as well as community education opportunities.
The highlight of the program will be a screening of the documentary, “Descendant.” The film follows the descendants of the Clotilda, the last known ship to have reached the United States illegally carrying enslaved Africans. Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground production company along with Questlove (a descendant of enslaved people on the Clotilda), “the film is a layered and slyly defiant portrayal of a community saddled with a shared history of unspeakable tragedy and violence. The treasure in this story is not a sunk vessel, as the interviews with its more literal-minded subjects might suggest, but a sense of justice and equilibrium that has been denied to a people that have been passing down their trauma from one generation to the next” (The Guardian, 10/21/2022).
The film screening will be followed by community conversation and additional programming.
The January 14th Community Forum is free and open to the public. Please join us at Goucher College’s Athenaeum, 10a-1p. Coffee, tea, juice and light faire will be provided.
Register HERE. We invite you to forward this email to others.
Amy, Joan, Nancy, and Will
Co-Leaders
Baltimore County Coalition of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project
baltimoreco.mdlmp@gmail.com
January 6, 2023
Parks & People is seeking a consultant for Reimagine Middle Branch’s dedication to the Baltimore Black Sox. Join us for an information session Tuesday, January 10th at 10 a.m. for more info on how to apply.
A message from our president:
On August 1, 2022, Parks & People, in partnership with the South Baltimore Gateway Partnership, issued a RFP for a consultant who can lead the effort to honor the Baltimore Black Sox. We were pleased by the number of inquiries and comments we received. In total transparency, the comments, questions, and suggestions were so substantive that we decided to revise the RFP and reissue it. Your comments made it clear to us that our primary goal of honoring the rich African American history found in and around Westport was not evident in the original RFP.
Therefore, this email contains the revised RFP. We seek a consulting team who will not only embrace our passion to honor the aforementioned history, but can also help us to realize this vision. Since 2018, P&P has been in collaboration with South Baltimore Gateway Partnership (SBGP), Baltimore City’s Mayor’s Office, Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks (BCRP), Baltimore City Department of Planning and a number of community leaders, elected officials, and residents in an intentional effort to honor the history of Westport’s persons of color.
As it relates to this RFP, the Westport community was also home to Negro League teams in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although these teams operated under different names and owners, the most famous and successful team was known as the Baltimore Black Sox. At times during their tenure, Westport was their home and thousands of diverse fans would come to watch them play. Therefore, the intentionally about which this document spoke earlier, is centered in honoring the African Americans who have called and still call this area home, and the intentionally is centered in honoring the Baltimore Black Sox.
If you or someone you know is interested in the full RFP to be sent to you, please reach out to frank.lance@parksandpeople.org.
Thanks,
Dr. Frank Lance
