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NORTHUMBERLAND National Park is working in partnership to support the region’s arts sector by commissioning three emerging local artists to produce pieces for a new, immersive, geolocated soundwalk through the Northumbrian landscape along Hadrian’s Wall. Collision & Conflict uses ECHOES: an interactive, GPS-triggered sound app; users follow a 2-2.5hrs circular sound walk starting at Walltown Country Park and along Hadrian’s Wall national trail. Listeners experience the landscape through their headphones and hear music, sound, storytelling and spoken word connected to specific locations on the route, including Thirlwall Castle, Green Croft Arts, Greenhead, and Carvoran Roman Fort. Green Croft Arts - a not-for-profit organisation based in Greenhead - offers arts, culture and wellbeing activities to rural communities and has commissioned 14 artists to create nine creative responses to the landscape. Each artist has a strong link to Northumberland and Cumbria and were taske
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White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo recently resigned, barely a month into his new job. Ducklo had berated a
Politico reporter who had questioned the status of Ducklo’s personal relationship with another reporter.
Ducklo’s brief tenure was certainly unusual but not without precedent in White House history. Given the high stakes involved, it’s not surprising that internal jockeying and outside lobbying have occasionally scuttled prominent appointments shortly after those appointments took place. And since personnel is policy, such changes can mean a sharp U-turn in direction with ripple effects often seen fully only in hindsight.
Racial Justice Initiative aims to eradicate racism, promote equity and advance human rights
Washington – December 22, 2020: As part of its efforts to address systemic racism, Crowell & Moring is donating a total of $750,000 to two organizations dedicated to the advancement of racial equity, justice, and fundamental human rights – the Equal Justice Initiative and the Lawyers’ Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law. In addition, the firm has committed $1 million in pro bono legal services in 2021 to further these causes and launched a Racial Equity Task Force to identify near-term actions and goals to enhance the experience of the firm’s diverse talent.
“Combatting racial injustice and inequality has been a part of our firm’s work since our founding more than 40 years ago. The heightened awareness around the senseless and depraved racially-motivated violence over the past year, in particular, has galvanized our community’s commitment to putting those values into action,