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Boris Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-born, later American, Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre. Thomashefsky was born in a town near Kiev, Ukraine, he moved to the United States in 1881, at the age of 12. A year later, barely a teenager, he was mostly responsible for the first performance of Yiddish theatre in New York City, in what was to become the Yiddish Theater District, and has been credited as the pioneer of Beet soup Belt entertainment.…

On today’s CNN stories and daily broadcast, their top stories had to do with Ray Rice’s indefinite suspension in the NFL from the Baltimore Ravens compared to Fox’s top story of Obama’s foreign policy as the ISIS crisis is going on and his head military leader is getting involved by grounding troops after President Obama has vowed to not get into another ground war in Iraq. Both Fox news and CNN news have made it clear to specify and show who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. To CNN Ray…

To talk about the state of law in America is to mention some of the issues the judicial system face. In my opinion, the biggest problem that our American judicial system face at this present time is mass incarceration. Mass incarceration has increased over the past forty years in the United States, ending in more people being locked in jails and prisons than ever before. In my opinion, the number one cause of mass incarceration is the war on drugs the United States has been fighting since…

Gore a top overseer of Colonel Lloyd who owned one of the many plantation that Douglass worked in prior to coming to Baltimore under the servitude of Mr. and Mrs. Auld. Mr. Gore was a harsh and cruel man, who on the daily would find any reason to punish and abuse the slaves that he was in charge of. On one instance Mr. Gore took to punishing Demby, by giving him lashes with…

have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his,” beautifully summarizes Wes Moore’s book: The Other Wes Moore. The book is an autobiography for two Wes Moores: the author and the convict. Both men grew up fatherless, grew up in Baltimore, and grew up in difficult circumstances, yet the author is a successful entrepreneur and veteran while the convict is in prison for life. There are many debatable explanations for why the men turned out differently: personalities, personal…

As Douglass adjusts to his new life in Baltimore, Mrs. Auld, who was originally a kind woman, began teaching Douglass to which Mr. Auld responded violently, he "forbade Mrs. Auld to instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to…

In the United States, more specifically, in the “Baltimore Police Department[,] officers [would] use the n-word (multiple times)” meaning that the police officers would show no respect to people of color (Adams). In other words, the BPD shows discrimination towards black people by using racial slurs on…

War The TV show “The Wire” focused on the dilemma of drug trade and the difficulty to find a solution to it. The series revolved around Major Colvin, the head of the Western Police District looking to salvage what was left worth salvaging in Baltimore. Colvin came up with an idea that allowed drug dealers to trade as long as it was within one of the three free zones which contained no residents. Before the free zones were created, dealers constantly stayed in front of the residents home…

Cullen is one of the great voices that represented the Harlem Renaissance. Incident tells a short story of how a nice smile that was given with joy was returned with a rude face and cruelty. Cullen writes about a character of color riding around Baltimore enjoying the sites, when the character notices a person staring right at her. When she offers…

Oprah Winfrey was born in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29 1954. Her parents Vernita Lee were a former house cleaner and Vernon Winfrey was a coal miner, barber and city council. Begin a troubled adolescence in a small farming community; friends and family of her mother sexually abused Oprah. Shortly after Winfrey’s birth, her mother moved to Milwaukee to pursue a job and leaving her daughter in the care of her grandmother. Considerably of her early life at church, this…