The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray

by AMST lecturer Rita Turner

The life of Freddie Gray, and of so many others, was endangered many times over by numerous forms of systemic racism before it was finally taken in the custody of police – an event that has...

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

Black and young in Baltimore: a roundtable discussion

featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt

For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:50 PM

"Baltimore riots" in The Conversation

with contributions from Kimberly Moffitt & Kate Drabinsky

On the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between 

Posted: April 29, 2015, 11:43 AM

Apply for a Fulbright Award!

I hope this note finds you well this afternoon. My name is Brian Souders, and my main role at UMBC is directing study abroad programs. One of my roles at UMBC is to manage the Student U.S....

Posted: March 30, 2015, 2:42 PM

AMST Lecturer Rita J. Turner Publishes Teaching EcoJustice

Curriculum Lessons for Secondary and College Classrooms

Teaching for EcoJustice is a unique resource for exploring the social roots of environmental problems in humanities-based educational settings and a curriculum guidebook for putting EcoJustice...

Posted: March 28, 2015, 10:02 AM

Doctors King (AMST) & Shewbridge (MCS) receive a major grant

from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation!

Baltimore Stories: Emerging Media Across the Curriculum – A team led by Nicole King, Associate Professor, American Studies, and Bill Shewbridge, Professor of the Practice, Media and Communication...

Posted: March 20, 2015, 2:13 PM

Ethnomusicologist Clifford Murphy on the music of Lead Belly

Lead Belly’s music defied racial categorization

Last month, Smithsonian Folkways released Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection, a carefully curated collection of Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter’s recordings that is – like the singer...

Posted: March 12, 2015, 12:23 PM