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Duke Ellington’s Melodies Carried his Message of Social Justice
At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington offers a model of how to do it right.
Hitting All the Right Notes
UMBC’s Russian Chorus is one of only three like it in the whole country. Students and alumni continue to participate primarily because of one man: Slava Liberman.
Here’s How to Increase Diversity in STEM at the College Level and Beyond
The Meyerhoff Scholars program has been called the “gold standard” for providing a path into STEM research for underrepresented students in the field.
A Quest to Reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘Reservation’
Lumbee are indigenous to North Carolina but have been present in Baltimore since at least as early as the 1930s.
