Previous speakers include columnist David Brooks, historian Taylor Branch, Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, Rebecca Hoffberger, founder of the American Visionary Arts Museum, White House correspondent April Ryan, The Stoop Storytelling Series founder and host Laura Wexler, Judge Andre Davis, BSO conductor Marin Alsop, author Antero Pietila, Joe Jones, founder and CEO of the Center for Urban Families, the Festival of Jewish Literature, filmmaker Aaron Woolf, MacArthur genius Joyce Scott, artists Oletha DeVane, Stephen Towns, and Amy Sherald, official portrait painter of Michele Obama. The Redeemer speaker series serves the broad community of Baltimore by inviting contemporary voices to challenge and inform us: artists and authors, visionaries and thought leaders… advocates of change courageous enough to hold the loveliness and sorrow of the world at once, and find the wonder in both. He teaches English and history at Johns Hopkins and founded the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts. Lawrence Jackson is a biographer and critic whose work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, n+1, and Best American Essays. Jackson essentially gifts his reader with two stories that are skillfully and beautifully intertwined: the work to create a great home for himself and his two sons, and a history of Baltimore, the hometown that helped create him.'īooks will be available at the event, and you can also click here to order a copy of Shelter for Ivy pickup or shipping! Jones, '“There are an endless number of wonderful things to say about Lawrence Jackson’s Shelter-from luminous to breathtaking to just being outright admirable. This event will take place in person, at Church of the Redeemer. Lawrence Jackson celebrating his new book, Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore.

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