‘2R’s Entertainment & Media PRESS RELEASE 17-Year-old Recording Artist TYLAN Releases Music Video (Quarantine Version) for His Top 30 R&B Single, “FEEL THIS WAY” featuring Ronnie DeVoe Tylan’s album is a coming of age story we are all familiar with, and that everyone can relate to. The world desperately needs this kind of music again. […]
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CCBC appoints Dr. Joaquin Martinez Provost and Vice President of Instruction
CCBC appoints Dr. Joaquin Martinez Provost and Vice President of Instruction Martinez will join CCBC on July 1, 2020 Baltimore County, Md. (June 9, 2020) – Community College of Baltimore County is pleased to announce that Dr. Joaquin Martinez has been named CCBC’s next provost and vice president of Instruction. Martinez will join CCBC’s leadership team on July 1, […]
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College Writing Awards go to University of Cincinnati and University of Mississippi Students
Hurston/Wright College Writing Awards go to students at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Mississippi Washington, DC—The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s 2020 Award for College Writers goes to a student at the University of Cincinnati, for fiction, and a student at the University of Mississippi, for poetry. Each wins a $1,000 cash […]
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BCPS News Release — Need to Register Your Student and Schools Are Closed? This New BCPS Website Shows You How
Need to register your student and schools are closed? This new BCPS website shows you how TOWSON, MD. – Parents of students who are new to Baltimore County Public Schools have a new resource to use for registering their students during this time of Coronavirus. A new page on the BCPS website provides detailed information on the […]
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Announcing Congresswoman Johnson’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge
Announcing Congresswoman Johnson’s 2020 Congressional App Challenge WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson’s office is excited to announce the Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for students in middle and high school. The CAC accepts computer programs (or apps) written in any programming language, for any platform (desktop/PC, web, mobile, raspberry Pi, etc.). […]
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Melissa Wood Bartholomew Named Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
A message from David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School I write with great pleasure to announce that Melissa Wood Bartholomew, MDiv ’15, will join HDS as the School’s new Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) on July 6, 2020. Melissa’s connections to HDS—and to the promotion of diversity and inclusion—run deep. […]
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Oversight Launches Investigation into Administration’s Surveillance of Protesters
June 5, 2020 The Honorable Chad F. Wolf Acting Secretary of Homeland Security 245 Murray Lane, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20528 Dear Acting Secretary Wolf: We write with grave concern about the use of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) resources—including drones and armed uniformed officers—to surveil and intimidate peaceful protesters who were exercising their First Amendment […]
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Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Baltimore City Will Enter Phase 1 of Reopening Beginning Monday, June 8
PRESS RELEASE Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young Announces Baltimore City Will Enter Phase 1 of Reopening Beginning Monday, June 8 Mayor, Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa find health data supports reopening certain services, businesses BALTIMORE, MD. — Today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced Baltimore City would begin its phased reopening of services and businesses […]
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Mercy Medical Center Completes Newly-Constructed Hospital Floor Ahead Of Schedule
(Baltimore, MD – June 5, 2020) —Mercy Medical Center announced today the completion of a newly constructed unit on the 17th Floor of the Mary Catherine Bunting Center main hospital in downtown Baltimore. The new state-of-the art unit was completed in record time, ahead of schedule, in partnership with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. The 32-bed […]
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BCPS News Release – 12 BCPS Schools Honored in Maryland Green Schools Program
12 BCPS schools honored in Maryland Green Schools program Includes 5 schools achieving “sustainable” Maryland Green Schools status TOWSON, MD. – Twelve Baltimore County public schools have been honored by the Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) for their 2019-2020 achievements in the Maryland Green Schools program. The following BCPS schools were recognized: For “sustainable […]
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Moving from Pain to Purpose
Statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd and National Uprising Against Racial Injustice Statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd and National Uprising Against Racial Injustice Statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd and National Uprising Against Racial Injustice Statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd and National Uprising Against Racial Injustice Statement Regarding the […]
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Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, emocha Partner to Implement Return-to-Work Solution for City Employees
PRESS RELEASE Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, emocha Partner to Implement Return-to-Work Solution for City Employees Mobile application will allow employees to self-screen for COVID-19 symptoms BALTIMORE, MD. — Today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young announced a new partnership with emocha to allow City employees to self-screen for symptoms of COVID-19 as they return to their worksites. […]