This Saturday, the undead of Baltimore will embark on a large-scale, eight-hour game of zombie tag.
Tag: race
Stayin’ Alive: Zombies Set to Roam the Streets of Baltimore on Saturday
Police Gather at Morgan State to Learn About Improving Community Relations
Yesterday, Morgan State University social work faculty took the chance to school police from the city and on campus about the history and social fabric of Baltimore.
On White Privilege, Police Brutality and Baltimore
University of Baltimore MFA student Tracy Gold considers the recent riots in light of her comfortable Towson upbringing.
I’m white, and I live in a neighborhood of yuppies near the water in Baltimore City. So, I can’t speak to what it’s like for the folks affected by police brutality.
But I can speak to what it’s like to deal with police when you’re a stupid, white teenager. I believe these kinds of stories are important to tell right now; they highlight how unfair our current system is. Sure, life’s not fair. But criminal justice should be.
Real Talk on “The Two Baltimores”
It’s been great getting to know the work of D Watkins, a Baltimore writer who writes essays about the joys and struggles and contrasts of being born and raised in East Baltimore. Watkins’s latest essay, “Stoop Stories,” opens with Watkins’s invitation to speak at the popular Stoop Storytelling series. As soon as he walked through the lobby, Watkins writes, he realized it was one of those events:
By ‘those events’ I mean a segregated Baltimore show that blacks don’t even know about. I walked through a universe of white faces wondering, how is this even possible? How could we be in the middle of Baltimore, a predominantly black city where African Americans make up more than 60 per cent of the population, at a sold-out event, with no black people – except for me and the friends I brought?
CNN Journalist Soledad O’Brien Hosts the Black in America Tour at Towson University
Towson University’s Center for Student Diversity and the Student Government Association present the Black in America Tour 2014, a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Join a community dialogue moderated by Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist, documentarian and producer, featuring a panel of national and local leaders on Wednesday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the SECU Arena.
Tickets are free and currently available at the University Union Ticket Office, located on Osler Drive, Towson, MD.
Soledad O’Brien was the originator of Black in America and Latino in America. She conducted a series of interviews in 2008 which later became the first of the Black in America documentaries, which features critical and strikingly honest panel discussions and commentary from leading African American celebrities and politicians in observation of the issues affecting the black community. In June 2013 she launched Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production and distribution company, dedicated to uncovering and producing empowering stories that take a challenging look at the often divisive issues of race, class, wealth, poverty and opportunity, through personal stories.
Mapping Segregation in Baltimore — Beautifully
We’ve featured other data visualization maps on Baltimore Fishbowl, and even other data visualization maps that depict segregation. But none have been quite so, well, beautiful as the racial dot map put together by demographer Dustin Cable.
In Cable’s map, each point represents an individual person. Yes, that means that there’s a tiny dot somewhere on this map that stands for you. Of course, the overall picture is more like a impressionist painting, fuzzy around the edges and distinct only when you look up close. Zooming in allows an increasingly precise look at where people live in and around the city: from a distance, Baltimore clearly reveals itself as a majority-black city, with majority-white outposts extending to the north. But a closer look complicates things:
NY Times Features CenterStage Director Kwame Kwei-Armah
The New York Times ran yesterday an interview with Kwame Kwei-Armah, the dynamic artistic director at CenterStage and learned more about his much anticipated play, “Beneatha’s Place.” Kwei-Armah wrote the play in response to Bruce Norris’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning controversial play about class and race, “Clybourne Park,” running at CenterStage now through June 16. (Norris wrote his play in response to Lorraine Hanberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” “Beneatha’s Place” will begin its run on May 8. The two plays, Kwei-Armah’s and Norris’s, will run in rotating repertory under the name The Raisin Cycle.
The article points out the risks Kwei-Armah is taking with “Beneatha’s Place,” which the AD acknowledges, too.
“In short, while some artistic directors might put a controversial play into context for their audiences with a program note or a post-show talkback, Mr. Kwei-Armah has put his reputation on the line with an ambitious new work that, although it doesn’t take on “Clybourne” directly, will invite inevitable comparisons.
‘It’s madness,’ he confessed. ‘I’m getting in there with this Goliath, and I set up the ring —I put the ropes in. What was I thinking?’”
Read For Sons of “Raisin,” a Back to Back Duel at nytimes.com
Towson Student Advocates Racial Segregation; Verbal Brawl Ensues
Usually when the subject is “Towson University students causing a ruckus by being provocatively hateful about race (or sexual orientation!), our old pal Matthew Heimbach has been the culprit. (If you don’t remember, he’s the college student who started a White Student Union, hosted a Straight Pride day, and chalked “WHITE PRIDE” messages all over Towson’s campus — right before a bunch of tour groups came through.) So we were surprised to learn that the Towson student who caused a “verbal brawl” at the prominent conservative CPAC conference by advocating segregation — yes, you heard me right, he is pro-segregation — I was surprised to hear that the culprit wasn’t Heimbach. But, of course, there’s more to the story than that.
Pulitzer Prize Winner Taylor Branch Talks About Race at the Pratt, Tuesday, Jan. 29
As part of Open Society Institute-Baltimore’s “Talking About Race” series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch will discuss his upcoming new book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, and the importance of making history accessible for today’s youth at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Tuesday, January 29 at 7 p.m.
He will be joined by educators Traci L. Wright, upper school dean of students at The Park School of Baltimore, and Karen Webber-Ndour, executive director of student support services for Baltimore City Public Schools.
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Join WYPR’s Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, October 29 for a screening of Race: The Power of an Illusion. This free event will be in the Wheeler Auditorium at the Pratt Central Library. It’s part of WYPR’s “The Lines Between Us” series about inequality in the Baltimore region.
