Prestigious Prize in Race Relations Awarded to Friends School Senior
Friends Senior Cinneah El-Amin ———— Friends School Senior Cinneah El-Amin has been awarded this year’s Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The prize, including a $1,000 cash award and an invitation to...
View ArticleThis Week in Research: Children and Race; Your “Seizure” is Actually Just Stress
The Trayvon Martin shooting has led to a lot of soul-searching about how Americans approach race. And it turns out that our understanding of racial dynamics begin to take shape early in life — and not...
View ArticleTalking About Race: MICA to Host Neoslavery Documentary Screening and Discussion
Documentary film “Slavery By Another Name” brings to light a period of history when many negative stereotypes about blacks—some that are still with us—were born. Next Tuesday, May 22, the film will...
View ArticleThis Week in Research: Archaeology in Annapolis; Hospitals at Home
In this series, we look at the newest findings coming out of our area’s top research universities. We’ve got some great minds in Baltimore — let’s learn what they’re learning! Not all archaeologists...
View ArticleTaking the ZigZag Path to Druid Hill Park
Most people who’ve been to Druid Hill Park don’t actually know it. They go down to the Maryland Zoo (which is right in the middle of Druid Hill) and leave without ever noticing anything else the park...
View ArticleTowson’s White Student Union Invites “Moderate” White Nationalist to Campus
Well, at least the white nationalist that Towson’s new White Student Union has invited to speak on campus next month is a relatively moderate white nationalist. On the other hand… Jared Taylor, the...
View ArticleCelebrate Baseball Season With Author Tom Dunkel and “Color Blind” at The...
Celebrate the opening of baseball season on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. as The Ivy Bookshop and Sports Legends Museum welcome Tom Dunkel to share a largely forgotten story from the sport’s past. In...
View ArticleBreaking Silos: Racial Progress in a Divided Community
The following essay is re-published with permission from local writer and social entrepreneur Rodney Foxworth. It appeared on the website of Changing Media, a company committed to “helping visionary...
View ArticleMaryland MLK Group Unveils Memorial to Honor March on Washington
Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Next Wednesday, August 28, marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, the most famous civil rights rally in American history. To commemorate the milestone,...
View ArticleRemembering Madiba
It was early one evening when I was leaving work, and I walked out through the turnstiles at the entrance to the foyer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Suddenly, I became aware of a buzz...
View ArticleBlack and White Marylanders Disagree on What Racial Inequality Looks Like,...
Photo by Elvert Barnes, via Wikimedia Commons Most Maryland voters, black or white, agree that race relations are in decline, according to the newest Goucher Poll for fall 2017. But when it comes to...
View ArticleOn Not Being Roseanne Barr: An Awakening in Whitesville
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York City for my son Vince’s graduation from his masters’ program, held at Radio City Music Hall. His sister Jane and I were waiting on the plaza across the street; I...
View ArticlePrestigious Prize in Race Relations Awarded to Friends School Senior
Friends Senior Cinneah El-Amin ———— Friends School Senior Cinneah El-Amin has been awarded this year’s Princeton Prize in Race Relations. The prize, including a $1,000 cash award and an invitation to...
View ArticleThis Week in Research: Children and Race; Your “Seizure” is Actually Just Stress
The Trayvon Martin shooting has led to a lot of soul-searching about how Americans approach race. And it turns out that our understanding of racial dynamics begin to take shape early in life — and not...
View ArticleTalking About Race: MICA to Host Neoslavery Documentary Screening and Discussion
Documentary film “Slavery By Another Name” brings to light a period of history when many negative stereotypes about blacks—some that are still with us—were born. Next Tuesday, May 22, the film will...
View ArticleThis Week in Research: Archaeology in Annapolis; Hospitals at Home
In this series, we look at the newest findings coming out of our area’s top research universities. We’ve got some great minds in Baltimore — let’s learn what they’re learning! Not all archaeologists...
View ArticleTaking the ZigZag Path to Druid Hill Park
Most people who’ve been to Druid Hill Park don’t actually know it. They go down to the Maryland Zoo (which is right in the middle of Druid Hill) and leave without ever noticing anything else the park...
View ArticleTowson’s White Student Union Invites “Moderate” White Nationalist to Campus
Well, at least the white nationalist that Towson’s new White Student Union has invited to speak on campus next month is a relatively moderate white nationalist. On the other hand… Jared Taylor, the...
View ArticleCelebrate Baseball Season With Author Tom Dunkel and “Color Blind” at The...
Celebrate the opening of baseball season on Wednesday, April 17 at 7 p.m. as The Ivy Bookshop and Sports Legends Museum welcome Tom Dunkel to share a largely forgotten story from the sport’s past. In...
View ArticleBreaking Silos: Racial Progress in a Divided Community
The following essay is re-published with permission from local writer and social entrepreneur Rodney Foxworth. It appeared on the website of Changing Media, a company committed to “helping visionary...
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