Red Emma's is a worker cooperative, owned and democratically managed by its workers.
Upcoming events
D. Watkins presents "Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments"
Wednesday, May 25th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriends“This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist
Kim Kelly presents "Fight Like Hell" in conversation with Maximillian Alvarez
Thursday, May 26th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsA revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Book launch party + celebration: Teri Henderson presents "Black Collagists"
Friday, June 3rd 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsWritten and curated by Teri Henderson, Black Collagists: The Book features over fifty emerging and established Black collage artists from around the world.
Saida Agostini presents "let the dead in"
Thursday, June 9th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsSaida Agostini’s first full-length poetry collection, let the dead in, is an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter-stories that reject such subjugation.
Ben Burgis presents "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters"
Friday, June 17th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsWhile his post-9/11 turn to the right has defined Christopher Hitchens for the last two decades, we may now be in a position to rehabilitate his long pre-9/11 career as a left-wing polemicist.
Zane McNeill presents "Y'all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia" w/ contributors Kendall Loyer & Maxwell Cloe
Saturday, June 18th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsY'all Means All is a celebration of the weird and wonderful aspects of a troubled region in all of their manifest glory!
Maximillian Alvarez presents "The Work of Living: Working People Talk about Their Lives and the Year the World Broke"
Thursday, June 23rd 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsAs COVID-19 swept across the globe with merciless force, it was working people who kept the world from falling apart.
Baynard Woods book release celebration: "Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness"
Thursday, June 30th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsJoin us to celebrate the release of Baynard Wood's "Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness"
Geo Maher presents "Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance" in conversation with Robbie Shilliam
Wednesday, July 13th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsThis incisive study reveals the fundamental, paradoxical weakness of colonialism and the enduring power of anticolonial resistance.
Ian Nagoski presents "Zabelle Panosian - I Am Servant of Your Voice"
Friday, July 15th 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsA book talk and listening party recovering the legacy of a long-forgotten musician of the Armenian diaspora.
Psyche A. Williams-Forson presents "Eating While Black"
Thursday, September 22nd 2022
11:00 pm
Red Emma's
RSVP on withfriendsPsyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating.
Location and hours
3128 Greenmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD
Opening Spring 2022
Our old location at 1225 Cathedral St. is open with limited hours (bookstore only).
Get in touch
Email: info@redemmas.org
Phone: (410) 601-3072
If you'd like to propose an event, please fill out this form. If you have questions, email us at events@redemmas.org.
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