Resources

JHU Resources


Summer Camp Ideas

Studio A Modeling & Dance

Our camp is an all-girls performing arts and personal development program open to girls ages 5 to 14 years old. The camp offers ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, tap, academics, sign language, foreign language, swimming, acting, modeling, etiquette, and weekly field trips.

https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/mdsam/page/class-registration

Department of Recreation & Parks

For eight weeks, our campers enjoy swimming, games, nature exploration, STEM activations, pick-up sports, crafts and more at our recreation centers, parks and facilities.

https://bcrp.baltimorecity.gov/camp-baltimore

Summer Science Splash Camp at Eckerd College on Florida's Gulf Coast

Summer Science Splash is a week-long residential summer camp hosted by Eckerd College for students entering 7th, 8th or 9th grade in Fall 2024.

https://www.eckerd.edu/science-splash/

 

Spotlight on Black Business and Services

Travel Noire

Travel Noire is digital media company serving millennials of the African Diaspora. Through inspired content, we help discerning travelers, discover, plan and experience new destinations.

Click here to view their list of Black-owned businesses.

 

Support Black-Owned (SBO)

SBO was created as a one-stop source that is used to bring tremendous popularity to help Black business owners and consumers. SBO offers premier Black owned business listings and tools that allow businesses to invest and build wealth in our very own communities.

Click here to download the SBO app.

 

Black-Owned Recommendations from BFSA

Popcom

MandD Cleaning

Chris Majestic

No Pix After Dark Podcast

 

Books on Anti-Racism

This list was curated, in no particular order, using member recommendations as well as those recommended by educators and activists.
Remember to support Black-owned bookstores*! 

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
  • How to Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth by Dána-Ain Davis
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

* The second page of this spreadsheet boasts a lengthy anti-racism reading list

 

Additional Black-Owned Bookstore Resources:

LitHub

Oprah Magazine's Black-Owned Bookstores List

African American Literature Book Club