Jackson, a fourth generation Baltimorean who directs the university's Billie Holiday Center for the Liberation Arts, which is an effort to link Johns Hopkins with the city's historical ...

Jackson, who has made digital map presentations about Holiday's early Baltimore life, emphasized the role of the Lafayette Avenue neighborhood to Holiday. "Billie Holiday, who was born Eleanora Gagan, ...

BALTIMORE — Johns Hopkins University historians are piecing together details about Billie Holiday's early life in Baltimore. Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, an Africana archives curatorial fellow at ...

A Baltimore community is planning a first-of-its-kind festival to celebrate Lady Day's legacy.It has been more than 30 years since the commemoration of a monument to Baltimore's own Billie Holiday ...

BALTIMORE - A statue of Billie Holiday has returned to the former black entertainment district in Baltimore where the lady once sang the blues.

BALTIMORE - A statue of Billie Holiday has returned to the former black entertainment district in Baltimore where the lady once sang the blues. The statue, depicting a singing Holiday in a flowing ...