AAM Summer Series Presents:
The World Doesn’t Require You:
Author Rion Amilcar Scott in Conversation with Historian Dale Green
Friday, June 3, 6 pm (Doors open at 5 pm)
Free and open to the public
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Rion Amilcar Scott’s award-winning short story collections imagine the fictional town of Cross River, Maryland, a free Black settlement founded after the only successful slave revolt in the United States. Historian Dale Glenwood Green’s research documents Easton’s Hill Community, one of the oldest free Black neighborhoods in the United States still in existence today. Join them for a reading and conversation about the history, legacy, and future of Maryland’s African American communities, followed by a walking tour led by Professor Green. This conversation is moderated by Shore Lit Founder and George Mason University professor Kerry Folan. Washington College’s Chesapeake Heartland African American Humanities Truck will also be on site to share a grassroots-curated exhibition celebrating African American history and culture on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Special thanks to our partners, sponsors, and friends in the community: The Chesapeake Heartland Project at Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of American Experience, The Hill Community Project, and Shore Lit.

Event Schedule
5:00 Visit the Chesapeake Heartland African American Humanities Truck in front of the museum to see a grassroots-curated exhibition celebrating African American history and culture on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
6:00 Join us in the auditorium for a conversation between writer Rion Amilcar Scott and historian Dale Glenwood Green about the history, legacy, and future of African American communities
7:00 Writer Rion Amilcar Scott will be signing books in the courtyard
7:30 Historian Dale Glenwood Green will lead a walking tour of Easton’s Hill Community