Keynote: “Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum” - Antonia Hylton

New York Times bestselling author Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning journalist and cohost of the hit podcasts Southlake and Grapevine. She joins us virtually to discuss her book, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum. In it, she tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands in Anne Arundel County. She blends intimate tales of patients and employees, investigative research and archival documents, and her own family’s experiences with mental illness.