FREE Speakers Bureau Programs

A limited number of programs are available FREE

Special Initiative:  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  Remembrance and Reconciliation

• Omar Ali – DR. KING’S INDEPENDENT POLITICAL LEGACY:  CROSSING THE RACIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
• Omar Ali – DR. KING’S CIVIC PRACTICE: BUILDING INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES IN A DIVISIVE WORLD
• Jeffrey Lamar Coleman – PRIDE AND PROTEST: POETRY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• Bill Grimmette – DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Bill Grimmette – FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Bill Grimmette – W.E.B. DUBOIS, A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Sharon Harley – Race Women, Race Man:  Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Gloria Richardson, and Martin Luther King, JR.
• Lenneal Henderson – THURGOOD IS COMING!  A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Peter Levy – THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE BALTIMORE RIOTS OF 1968
• Peter Levy – CIVIL WAR ON RACE STREET: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND
• Jeffrey McCune – THE DREAM REVISITED/REALIZED
• Gwendolyn Briley-Strand – HARRIET TUBMAN: MEET THE WOMAN
• Bruce Thompson – KING JOINED A MOVEMENT
• Psyche Williams-Forson – BUILDING HOUSES OUT OF CHICKEN LEGS: BLACK WOMEN, FOOD, AND POWER

Critical Issues

• Bill Barry – BETHLEHEM STEEL:  THE WORDS OF WORKERS
• Daniel Buccino – CIVIL SOLUTIONS: THE POWER OF CIVILITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
• Daniel Buccin – CIVILITY AND HEALTH CARE
• Agnes Cane Callum – THE COLOR OF BRAVERY: UNITED STATES COLORED TROOPS OF MARYLAND
• Thomas Clemens – MARYLAND IN THE CIVIL WAR: LEE’S CAMPAIGN OF 1862
• Thomas Cripps – MOVIES, RACE, AND WORLD WAR II
• Louis Diggs – HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN BALTIMORE COUNTY
• Howard Ernst – ARE WE ESSENTIALLY GOOD OR SELFISH?  HOW DO OUR POLITICS REFLECT OUR BELIEFS ABOUT HUMAN NATURE?
• Albert Feldstein – ALLEGANY COUNTY AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: PEOPLE AND PLACES
• Martin Ford – MELTING POT OR MIXING BOWL:  HOW IMMIGRATION SHAPES OUR HISTORY
• Michael Franch – WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN AMERICAN IN TODAY’S CHANGING CULTURES?
• Stephen Frantzich – CITIZEN DEMOCRACY: HOW AVERAGE CITIZENS INFLUENCE NATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY
• Stephen Frantzich – ARE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES REALLY FROM DIFFERENT PLANETS?
• Zekeh Gbotokuma – GLOBALIZATION(S) AND AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM:  WILL THINGS FALL APART AGAIN?
• Robert Ginsberg – THE BILL OF RIGHTS: HOW HAS IT ENDURED?
• Robert Ginsberg – THE GLOBAL VILLAGE IN THE MILLENNIUM
• Melvin Goodman – TENSIONS BETWEEN LIBERTY AND SECURITY IN WARTIME
• Melvin Goodman – THE NEW CIA
• Debra Newman Ham – EXPERT WITNESSES: THE NAACP’S BROWN CASE STRATEGY
• Karen Keely - BETTER BABIES:  THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
• Bjorn Krondorfer – FROM NAZI PROPAGANDA TO GENOCIDAL ANTISEMITISM:  THE POWER OF PREJUDICE
• Bjorn Krondorfer – AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU: ANATOMY OF A DEATH CAMP
• Bjorn Krondorfer – RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: A GLOBAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
• Walter Leonard – BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION: PROMISES, FAILURES, SUCCESSES
• Henry Miller – AN ABUNDANT AND FRUITFUL LAND: HUMAN USE OF THE CHESAPEAKE THROUGH HISTORY
• Ronn Pineo – CRISIS IN LATIN AMERICA
• George Scheper – CUBA: CULTURAL HERITAGE, REVOLUTION, AND NEW REALITIES
• Janet Sims-Wood – FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN’S ARMY CORPS DURING WORLD WAR II
• Janet Sims-Wood – SEPARATE BUT EQUAL AND THE BROWN DECISION
• David Smith – AGRICULTURE, THE ENVIRONMENT, OUR FOOD AND SUSTAINABILITY
• David Taft Terry – DISMANTLING JIM CROW UP SOUTH: RACIAL DESEGREGATION IN BALTIMORE, 1935-1955
• Michael Twitty – FIGHTING OLD NEP: THE FOOD CULTURE OF ENSLAVED AFRO-MARYLANDERS
• Katharina von Kellenbach – JUSTICE, FOREGIVENESS, AND REMEMBRANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST
• Paul Wapner – HUMANS AND NATURE: MORAL DILEMMAS OF PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
• John Wennersten – THE ALMIGHTY OYSTER: FOOD, FIGHTING AND SENSIBILITY
• Glenn Williams – THE CROWNING CRIME: THE INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE

Maryland Center for the Book:  Poetry and Literature

• Mary Azrael – BINDING SPINES: A BOOKMAKING PROJECT
• Linda Joy Burke – POETRY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
• John Charles Camp – ZORA NEALE HURSTON: AN AMERICAN LIFE
• Yael Flusberg – YOGA AND WRITING: STRETCHING YOUR MIND AND BODY
• Michael Glaser – POET’S CORNER: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF POETRY
• Michael Glaser – SHARING OUR STORIES, GIVING VOICE TO OUR SONGS
• Reginald Harris – JUMP START YOUR CREATIVITY
• Burney Hollis – TELLING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SAGA ON MARYLAND’S EASTERN SHORE
• Burney Hollis – FREEDOM AND REBELLION: FROM WALT WHITMAN TO LANGSTON HUGHES
• Robert Kachur – THE HORROR GENRE: WHY DO WE WANT TO BE SCARED?
• Robert Kachur – JANE EYRE: GOTHIC MELODRAMA AND SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• Michelle Nelson – LIVE LYRICS!  INTERPRETING ART THROUGH POETRY
• Carla Peterson – NINETEENTH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
• Carrol Peterson – WALT WHITMAN: POET OF DEMOCRACY, LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Priscilla Ramsey – THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: ITS ART AND POLITICS
• The 5^th L – CREATIVE WRITING AND IDENTITY
• Sue Ellen Thompson – WHAT DOES IT MEAN?  READING, UNDERSTANDING, AND LOVING POETRY
• Colleen Webster – EMBRACING THE WORLD THROUGH NATURE WRITERS
• Marianne Wilski-Strong – IMAGES OF WAR IN LITERATURE
• Marianne Wilski-Strong – THE HEALING POWERS OF WRITING
• Olu Butterfly Woods – BECOMING A RHYME BEAST: A RHYMING WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG WRITERS
• Olu Butterfly Woods – EGO TRIPPIN’ FOR A REASON: HYPERBOLE WITH A CAUSE

LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE FREE FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL AUDIENCES ONLY:

Special Initiative:  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  Remembrance and Reconciliation

• Jeffrey Lamar Coleman – PRIDE AND PROTEST: POETRY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• Bill Grimmette – DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Bill Grimmette – FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Bill Grimmette – W.E.B. DUBOIS, A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Lenneal Henderson – THURGOOD IS COMING!  A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION
• Peter Levy – THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND THE BALTIMORE RIOTS OF 1968
• Peter Levy – CIVIL WAR ON RACE STREET: THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND
• Jeffrey McCune – THE DREAM REVISITED/REALIZED
• Gwendolyn Briley-Strand – HARRIET TUBMAN: MEET THE WOMAN
• Gwendolyn Briley-Strand – HARRIET TUBMAN: MOVE OR DIE, A LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATION (for Baltimore City and Prince George’s County schools only)
• Bruce Thompson – KING JOINED A MOVEMENT
• Psyche Williams-Forson – BUILDING HOUSES OUT OF CHICKEN LEGS: BLACK WOMEN, FOOD, AND POWER