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November 30, 2015
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11:58 AM
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on racist vandalism and Confederate monuments in Baltimore
Someone vandalized a sculpture of a pregnant black woman at the Copycat Building, scrawling "nigger" repeatedly across her belly, her arms, her chest, her legs—and the incident has become...
November 24, 2015
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11:10 PM
Michelle Stefano & Bill Shewbridge featured in Cross Ties
Public historians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) accepted the challenge of collecting video oral histories of workers associated with Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point,...
November 21, 2015
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7:42 PM
Droneberg & Goodrich on the end of the Hour Haus era
At midnight on Thursday, July 30th, 2015, the final amps and drum kits were reluctantly lugged out of Station North's longtime music rehearsal space, The Hour Haus. After 25 years as a music...
July 31, 2015
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6:15 PM
by AMST lecturer Rita Turner
The life of Freddie Gray, and of so many others, was endangered many times over by numerous forms of systemic racism before it was finally taken in the custody of police – an event that has...
May 5, 2015
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1:51 PM
featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt
For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....
May 5, 2015
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1:50 PM
with contributions from Kimberly Moffitt & Kate Drabinsky
On the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between
April 29, 2015
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11:43 AM
Association for Asian American Studies meeting in Chicago
Conference theme: The Trans/National Imaginary - Global Citites and Racial Borderlands; click on the links to see the full conference progam
April 19, 2015
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4:21 PM
"Meeting the progressive future now" is the phrase Danny Glover and I used to express our delight when we were introduced to the smiling, inviting faces and serious social change projects of 62...
April 16, 2015
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3:17 PM
As part of the larger Mill Stories project, which seeks to document the sociocultural impacts of industrial decline and help amplify the voices of those affected by it in the Baltimore region, the...
April 5, 2015
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2:23 PM