"Baltimore Stories: Narratives in the Life of an American City" is a year-long, grant-funded educational program examining narrative, race and power. The program will kick-off on Wednesday, March 23rd with a free public forum, led by the University of Maryland Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy and Maryland Humanities Council, at Westminster Hall in Baltimore. Morning speakers will include David Simon, author, journalist and writer of Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire, and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, historian and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The afternoon session will be a response to the morning's ideas and will include University of Maryland historian Dr. Christopher Bonner and a panel of local humanists, public intellectuals, activists and the audience. For more information and to register (rsvp by March 20th): http://bit.ly/2594Hcr

The UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities will convene a public conversation and digital storytelling workshop, entitled "Multiple Communities, Multiple Stories, Multiple Modes," at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore on Saturday, April 23rd from noon-4:00 p.m. Information and registration is forthcoming.

Baltimore Stories is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Humanities in the Public Square Program and is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council, UMBC, Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.