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Mary Rizzo
Mary Rizzo, Assistant Professor of History and Associate Director of Public and Digital Humanities Initiatives at Rutgers University-Newark, has won a $50,000 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship to produce a traveling exhibit about Black cultural activism in Baltimore co-created with local middle- and high- school students and grounded in the evolution of
Chicory, an African American literary magazine published from the 1960s through the 1980s.
The story of
Chicory rediscovered by Rizzo after falling into relative obscurity and now fully digitized in collaboration with Pratt Library overturns the usual narrative of Baltimore’s Black history, which sees the riot in 1968 as the starting point of an inexorable decline leading to increased poverty, drug use, and violence, culminating in the 2015 uprising. Looking at Baltimore through the lens of
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra announced Tuesday that it will stage two free outdoor community concerts in June conducted by outgoing music director Marin Alsop. Other arts and cultural institutions in Baltimore plan to reopen, too.
Baltimore arts groups start to reopen doors to public; BSO plans festival honoring music director Marin Alsop baltimoresun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from baltimoresun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.