In a previous post I talked about the posture of Baltimore City Police Chief Melvin Russell as he addressed a group of churches at Central Presbyterian in Towson after a screening of the documentary Walking While Black on the evening of June 12, 2017. He spoke about the opportunity the local church had to help... Continue Reading →
Iconoclasts
So this wasn’t the planned post for this week, but in light of recent events I thought this might be appropriate. Above, we see United States citizens in Durham, North Carolina pulling down a Confederate statue on Monday, August 14, 2017. This action came as a response (in part at least) to the violence that... Continue Reading →
Festival of Booths
The story behind the name, and the reason this blog exists.
Oriole Sighting in Baltimore
It is Friday, June 16, 2017. My wife and I have taken our dinner out to a park. There is, written in chalk, on the cement beneath a pavilion, the words “Free Bill Cosby”. The jury is hung at the moment. But, I tell my wife later as we are walking, “You know who they... Continue Reading →