WEEK TWO
African American Heritage House (AAHH) Lecture Series: Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III
Please join us online at CHQ Assembly on Friday, July 9 at 1:00 pm EDT for our second program of the 2021 Summer Assembly Season. We are pleased to present Rev. Dr. Heber M. Brown, III, Community Organizer, Social Entrepreneur, Base Builder, Network Weaver, and Senior Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore, Maryland as he delivers a talk in line with the weekly theme of New Frontiers: Exploring Today's Unknowns.
For nearly two decades, Dr. Brown has been a catalyst for personal transformation and social change.
He is the Founding Director of Orita’s Cross Freedom School. Based on the Freedom Schools of the 1960s, Dr. Brown works to reconnect Black youth to their African heritage while providing them hands-on learning opportunities to spark their creative genius and build vocational skills.
Additionally, in 2015 he launched the Black Church Food Security Network a multi-state alliance of congregations working together to inspire health, wealth, and power in the Black Community. The BCFSN accomplishes this by partnering with historically African American churches to establish gardens on church-owned land and cultivates partnerships with African American farmers to create a grassroots, community-led food system.
Dr. Brown's dedication to service has been widely recognized. In 2018, Baltimore Magazine named him a Visionary of the City and the Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights presented him with their Food Justice Award. In 2019, he received the coveted Emerging Leaders Award from the Claneil Foundation which brought with it a $250,000 investment in the work of the Black Church Food Security Network.
AAHH lectures will remain available on the CHQ Assembly Platform assembly.chq.org and will also be archived on the AAHH website AAHeritageHouse.org a few days after the presentation.
