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For rent sign on a building's front garden
Economics and race
The boomerang generation
Published May 7, 2018
The economy kept black and white young adults from leaving the nest, but for two very different reasons, study finds
Cathrine Sneed
Community-building
Insights from a prison garden pioneer
Published May 4, 2018
Cathrine Sneed, founder of The Garden Project in San Francisco, discusses the redemptive power of gardening
Otis and Edwina Moss
Race in America
Beyond 'I Have a Dream'
Published April 27, 2018
Friends of Martin Luther King Jr. reflect on his 'Drum Major Instinct' sermon of 1968
Choir singers perform
Race in America
A 'radically different' reflection
Published April 24, 2018 Video
Martin Luther King Jr.'s words fuel 'The Drum Major Instinct,' which comes to JHU on April 26
Faces projected on walls
Film
Virtual world, present danger
Published April 20, 2018
Extended reality film experience about nuclear fallout and Hiroshima premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Anthropology
Hopkins helps facilitate virtual meeting of the minds
Published April 18, 2018
Anand Pandian discusses the Society for Cultural Anthropology's biennial meeting, which will take place entirely online
Zine art: Three faceless women
Women's bodies, weaponized
Published April 11, 2018
In 'Trouble Girls' zine, senior Gillian Waldo explores women's prison protests in Northern Ireland
Yellowed newspaper clipping of riot police
Hopkins history
'A time of great pain'
Published April 11, 2018
JHU's Homewood campus was largely insulated from the unrest following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, but many on campus were moved to action
stack of old books
JHU Press to digitize more than 200 out-of-print books
Published April 10, 2018
Project supported by $200K grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
Illustration of pencils at a starting line
Report: Support lacking for low-income, high-ability students
Published April 4, 2018
Johns Hopkins researchers issue report card for states on gifted education