EJJI friend and mentor Vincent Leggett will be speaking Saturday 2/11/23 at the Enoch Pratt Library’s Central Branch at 11 a.m.

If you have not had a chance to hear Leggett speak, don’t miss it. The founder of Blacks of the Chesapeake, who calls himself a “country boy from East Baltimore,” is an amazing raconteur of the Black experience on the rivers and creeks around the Chesapeake Bay. Vince has been chronicling these stories for the past 20 years, and without him these stories would be lost. An excellent land-use planner, he has also been instrumental in preserving Elktonia Beach in Annapolis. It is the last of the Black-run beaches during segregated times.

If you miss Vince this time, check out Blacks of the Chesapeake, which often lists his other engagements. You can also order his book, The Chesapeake Through Ebony Eyes.