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March 17, 2021, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
The Middle East Institute's Arts and Culture Center and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center at George Mason University are pleased to host acclaimed Syrian author Khaled Khalifa for a talk about his most recent novel, Death is Hard Work, and how the Syrian uprisings have impacted his writing and the country he calls home. More information and registration here.
Jeff Chang Reminds Flexner Hip Hop was the thing he liked.
I was informed an important book was being re-released while I was planning to watch the new Fred Hampton movie.
Can’t Stop Won’t Stopcan function as the encyclopedia of rap.
Can’t Stop Won’t Stoprelease date was March 16th.
I attended a virtual meeting with community radio producers in which Jeff Chang, who wrote Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, was discussing the 2021 edition of his 2005 book.
BSA Hip Hop 7pm 92.7 / 98.3 wcrsfm.org is my radio show.
http://wesflexner.com/2021/03/12/bsa-hip-hop-3-11-21/
Tuesday, March 16, 5pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”
Join Kaleidoscope Youth Center’s “Speaking Queerly Podcast” for a live discussion on March 16 at 5pm!
“Speaking Queerly” presents “Black First? An Intergenerational Dialogue Around Race, Gender Identity, and Sexuality.”
This event will be hosted by Kaleidoscope Youth Center Deputy Director Karen Hewitt (Ze/Hir/She/Her).
Special Guest:Dr. Terrance Dean (He/Him), Assistant Professor in Black
Studies at Denison University
Special Guest:Dae Dae (Any/All), KYC Youth
We’ll broadcast live right here on Facebook. Follow this event and @KYCOhio!
Hosted by Kaleidoscope Youth Center.
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I learned yesterday that Babachu Spriggs, a friend of mine with whom I had frequently performed music on Wednesdays at noon at a church in downtown Columbus, has died.
Tuesday, March 16, 12noon, this on-line event requires advance registration
Join us during Sunshine Week for a training focused on Ohio’s Sunshine Law and how to do a public records request.
This training will be presented by Gary Daniels, ACLU of Ohio.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Common Cause Ohio and League of Women Voters of Ohio.
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The March Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon was hosted by Simply Living, with Chuck Lynd, director of Support Ohio Local Economies (SOLE) as the moderator. Simply Living is a local membership organization that offers the community a way to live simply and sustainably in cooperation with others and with nature. They offer workshops,events, a marketplace and partnerships with businesses and organizations.
Tuesday, March 9; Tuesday, March 16; Tuesday, March 23; 7-8:30pm; this on-line event requires advance registration
As people of faith, we recognize the existence of many realities and even more so, how those realities are interwoven. The connection between law and race is one of these ever-present truths. Join Political Science Professor and Unitarian Universalist, Howard Tolley, for three 90-minute sessions examining Supreme Court caselaw involving slavery, native American rights, racial discrimination, segregation, mass incarceration, the death penalty, affirmative action, rights of protesters, and qualified immunity for law enforcement personnel.
In this course, taught through UUJAZ [UU Justice Arizona] and UUJO [Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio], Tolley considers the impact of race, political ideology, legal principles, and personal preference on the selection of Justices and the decisions they reach.
This course is free to all UUJO monthly sustaining donors. If you wish to join but aren’t a donor, you can contribute a suggested donation on a sliding scale. If you aren’t financially able to donate, join us anyway!
The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) earlier this week unanimously voted to urge the Ohio State University administration not to renew its lease agreement for an on-campus Wendy’s due to the company’s failure to commit to the Fair Food Program, which provides verifiable human rights protections to farmworkers in its supply chain.
The Fair Food Program is “the gold standard for enforcing human rights in the U.S. agricultural system,” declared the USG.
Pioneered by the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the social responsibility program has been adopted by some of the biggest fast-food chains and supermarkets in the world, including McDonald’s and Walmart, and has a track record second-to-none for eliminating longstanding farm labor abuses ranging from forced labor to sexual assault.
Wendy’s is the last fast-food giant to reject the Fair Food Program. during a pandemic no less. According to the CIW nearly 90,000 meatpacking workers, food processing workers, and farmworkers have tested positive for COVID-19, as food and agricultural workers have suffered the highest COVID-19 death rates of workers in any occupation.
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The weather in Philadelphia can be bad. If it rained more, they could call it the Schuylkill Bay instead of the Schuylkill River. Though the nearby Delaware River is bigger, the Schuylkill has its own history, some yet to be made.
A distance from the river, centered at the bubble end of a lane, Anton Evers’ home stood as a kind of beacon. The builders of the houses on the lane used red bricks for every house except Evers’. His are white.
Evers opened the second-floor front door and peered out into the morning rain, which produced a pleasant cadence on the lids of the cans on the sidewalk below. Rain made it a bad day to collect trash, or deliver the newspaper.
But Toby Wallace didn’t mind, because today was his last day throwing the paper as he walked. A boy turns 16 only once, and that was today. Tonight, he’d pilot a car that used to belong to someone else. After tonight, it belonged to him.
He was most excited to show his new wheels to his two friends, his only friends, B-drop and Tick. But the trio rarely saw each other, because B-drop and Tick were in a gang known as the Front Street Boyz.
Saturday, March 13 from 7:00-8:30PM EST
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