In-Person Event | March 4, 2026 | 7:00 p.m EST

Featuring John Lewis’s Longtime Director of Communications, Brenda Jones, Playwright, Psalmayne 24, and Historian, George Derek Musgrove

Presented in partnership with Mosaic Theatre Company and their production of Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest
by Psalmayne 24

It’s time to make some good trouble. Join us for a conversation honoring the legacy of former Congressman and Civil Rights icon, John Lewis.

For 15 years, Brenda Jones was the Director of Communications for Congressman Lewis. All of his published opinions, statements, and speeches were penned by Brenda Jones during that time. She collaborated with him on his book, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, which won an NAACP Image Award.

Psalmayene 24 is an award-winning playwright, director, and actor. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater Company. Playwriting credits include Young John Lewis (book & lyrics) at Theatrical Outfit; Monumental Travesties, Dear Mapel, and Les Deux Noirs at Mosaic Theater Company; Out of the Vineyard at Joe’s Movement Emporium; and Cinderella: The Remix at Imagination Stage.

George Derek Musgrove, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia, 2012) and co-author, with Chris Myers Asch, of Chocolate City, A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (UNC, 2017). In 2021, he tried his hand at digital humanities, releasing blackpowerindc.umbc.edu, a web-based map covering thirty years of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital.