The Work Ahead
Established in 2021, Gilman’s Juneteenth Speaker Series is designed to highlight and celebrate modern-day contributions to African American culture and initiatives. This school year’s speaker series was supported by generous gifts from the 2020-2021 Juneteenth fundraising effort. The series included (pictured starting from top left):
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• André Robert Lee, filmmaker • Susan Yao, educator • Izetta Autumn Mobley, Ph.D. and Drew Hawkins, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture • Molly Baldwin, founder and CEO, Roca • Richard Antoine White, DM, tubist, inspirational speaker • Richard Bell, author of “Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home” • Phoebe Kilby Baldwin and Betty Kilby, co-authors of “Cousins” • Brendan Kiely, author of “The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege”
