The urgent calls and emails to Point Park University started within hours of the abrupt announcement that a venerable arts campus in Philadelphia would close within a week, leaving hundreds of students suddenly without fall college plans. University of the Arts, dating to the 1870s, had become the latest small
The University of the Arts abruptly cancelled its town hall meeting to address its decision to close after it lost its accreditation with its school community..
More than 150 students from Region 4, which includes Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s Counties, competed in 25 competitions the SkillsUSA Southern Maryland Regional event held on February 3, 2024. This year’s event was hosted by the North Point High School Science Technology and Industry and Robert D. Stethem Educational Center.
Writer and filmmaker Tambay Obenson blazed a trail in early 2000s US film criticism, founding the prolific Black cinema blog Shadow & Act and going on to serve as IndieWire’s principal Black cinema staff writer until last year, when he established Akoroko – a media platform dedicated to discourse around African film and TV. As the birth centenary of Ousmane Sembène comes to an end, Obenson muses on the monumental legacy of a filmmaker widely hailed as the ‘father of African cinema’