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OFFICE OF THE STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY Are your communities flooded with smoke shops? Is Juvenile crime impacting your quality of life and safety? JOIN US FOR THE SOLUTIONS PACT A Community Town Hall Hosted by the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office Get Answers To Your Concerns About: SMOKE SHOPS & ILLEGAL SALES JUVENILE ENGAGEMENT & PUBLIC SAFETY Hear from: Ivan J. Bates State's Attorney for Baltimore City Betsy Fox Tolentino DJS Secretary Maryland Alcohol, Tabacco & Cannabis Commission · • Youth Outreach Programs March 18, 2026 - 6PM-8PM -DIGITAL HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL 1100 COVINGTON STREET
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I'm revisiting Samantha Ege's fabulous world premiere recording of Julia Perry's distinctive 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Two Uninterrupted Speeds' as I work on a book version of my 2024 talk at the Julia Perry Centenary Symposium, "Julia Perry in New York"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwEq...
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Joni Mitchell's Blackface Era (which, depending on how flexible you are with the definition of Blackface, started in 1974 and... has never ended) in her own words is really some of the wildest stuff to read - this is from 1976, when she said "I saw a black man on the street and he was so cool that I decided to dress up in blackface"
"I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard, in search of a costume for a Halloween party when I saw this black guy with a beautiful spirit walking with a bop... As he went by me he turned around and said, "Ummmm, mmm... looking good sister, lookin' good!" Well I just felt so good after he said that. It was as if this spirit went into me. So I started walking like him. I bought a black wig, I bought sideburns, a moustache. I bought
some pancake makeup. It was like 'I'm goin' as him!'[5]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n2gavvyaawq3m5sbh2gjkqgk/bafkreihqccsndqkluuui6flbwl3emge3cm3737rglubxyb4ia3scfix7xe)
nifmuhammad → 1h Joni Mitchell's Blackface Era (which, depending on how flexible you are with the definition of Blackface, started in 1974 and... has never ended) in her own words is really some of the wildest stuff to read - this is from 1976, when she said "I saw a black man on the street and he was so cool that I decided to dress up in blackface" "I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard, in search of a costume for a Halloween party when I saw this black guy with a beautiful spirit walking with a bop... As he went by me he turned around and said, "Ummmm, mmm... looking good sister, lookin' good!" Well I just felt so good after he said that. It was as if this spirit went into me. So I started walking like him. I bought a black wig, I bought sideburns, a moustache. I bought some pancake makeup. It was like 'I'm goin' as him!'[5]"
This is often forgotten/erased.
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
(typo, should be "Baltimore is the new DC")
I wasn't enjoying the "Baltimore is in the new DC" comments floating around. Baltimore is Baltimore, Baltimore is the greatest, always has been, always will be. I appreciate @lesliegraystreeter.bsky.social for saying as much.
Panel and Q&A - Johns Hopkins, AEI, and “Viewpoint Diversity”: What Universities Owe to the Truth Last year, Johns Hopkins University announced its partnership with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a right-wing think tank known for its significant contributions to the articulation of conservative American politics in the past decades. At the same time, universities nationwide are under fire for pushing left-wing ideology, lambasted for discriminatory "cancel culture", and lacking viewpoint diversity, resulting in slashed federal funding and extreme censorship across the board. What should we make of this institution's partnership during such a strenuous time for academic institutions? This event brings together a panel of speakers to discuss questions of academic diversity, the role of think tanks in university settings, and other impacts we might expect from Hopkins' new partnership with AEI. Join us for a moderated panel discussion to learn about AEI and interdisciplinary and community perspectives on Johns Hopkins' partnership. Panelists will include Lisa Siraganian (Comparative Thought & Literature), Nathan Connolly (History), Ana María Rule (Environmental Health and Engineering), and an organizer with Sacred Parks and Waterways. Moderators are graduate workers April Ma (Political Science) and Sonia Dhawan (Environmental Health and Engineering) followed by a Q&A session. This event is co-sponsored by the Chloe Center and Teachers and Researchers United (TRU-UE 197). Monday, March 9 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Levering Great Hall
Does anyone have any explanation for why N*rman L*brecht is so psychotically obsessed with Yuja Wang
Attention small business owners: @baltimorebeat.bsky.social is now offering pay what you can ads! baltimorebeat.com/paywhatyouca...
Philip Glass pulled an Amy Sherald! 💛
Today would have been Nina Simone's 93rd birthday. 💛
youtu.be/7yRTI-Y5ZkU?...
"Soon, the new AI building will loom over the glassy Agora Institute, which will by then, he expects, be busily saving democracy. He thinks that if a student had put this detail into a short story—AI casting democracy into its shadow—a writing instructor would have cut it."
A tour de force by my colleague @francoisfurst.bsky.social.
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
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No thank you.
“He got Me Tooed” “He got Epsteined” amazing that people have re-invented the police passive for rapists.
UMM THE ORIOLES JUST DROPPED A 30 MINUTE VIDEO OF THE GUITARIST FROM TURNSTILE CHATTING WITH PETE ALONSO
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Just got an email from Zoom plugging their "AI Companion," so I immediately looked up how to disable it and disabled it. In case you're interested...
support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...
Looks like @baltimoresun.bsky.social readers may see more AI-produced news stories like the ones published last week that @baltsunguild.bsky.social quickly denounced as SLOP. tinyurl.com/yaafhvd8 Sun management: "To ignore this powerful tool would be a mistake.”
I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.
Thanks! I managed it in about 40 minutes when it was at the Whitney, but it would be great to have at least that much time (especially for my wife, who is seeing it for the first time).
Folks who have been to the Amy Sherald show at the BMA, how long are the windows of time to spend in the exhibit? It looks like only 30 minutes?
