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The Language and Social Justice Initiative Webinar Series
February 10th Kick-off Session at 5:30 pm
The Language Engagement Project and The Language Center are pleased to launch the Language and Social Justice Initiative 2021-2022 webinar series. You are cordially invited to the initiative...
Posted: February 8, 2021, 10:07 AM
Call For Submissions: Screening Scholarship Media Festival
Deadline November 15, 2015
The 4th Annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival April 1st and 2nd, 2016 Highlighted theme on: Race Media, and Social Justice In the last few years, we have witnessed an explosion of...
Posted: October 26, 2015, 11:02 AM
Love and Righteous Anger
by David Hoffman A few minutes before the zero hour, people begin to stir in the large lecture hall. I look around nervously. I want to go to the protest at noon, but that would involve...
Posted: November 25, 2012, 7:23 PM
My Political Identity
The first political label I applied to myself was “moderate liberal.” That was when I was a college freshman. What I really meant was, “I don’t want to appear ignorant or offend anyone, but I’m...
Posted: September 24, 2012, 9:05 AM
Paula McCusker Wins National Youth Courage Award
Paula McCusker has been named a winner of the 2010 Colin Higgins Foundation Youth Courage Award, a national award honoring young people who have overcome significant obstacles to become "unsung...
Posted: May 4, 2010, 12:37 PM
3,419
3,419 is the number of homeless people counted in Baltimore by the most recent "homeless census" conducted in January 2009. This number was higher than the count from the previous census in 2007,...
Posted: January 29, 2010, 5:52 PM
Social Justice on Our Time
I remember how it felt to be a college student in the mid-1980s, when the memory of the Civil Rights Movement was more immediate and fresh in the minds of my elders. Students like me who hoped to...
Posted: January 18, 2010, 10:32 PM