Monday, June 22, 2020 By Abdirahman Diria Frederick Douglass once said: “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing world, people of color are facing severe and challenging times. The global pandemic, exacerbated by racism and thoughtless acts of prejudice and ignorance, have forever changed the world. The inhumane, horrendous…Read more Racism is a human rights violation
Rewrite the laws, transform how we treat one another Saturday, June 20, 2020 By Raya Berkley Eight minutes and 46 seconds. The thought of a human being’s breathing being restricted for 8 minutes and 46 seconds is agonizing. I cannot describe the act of kneeling on an individual’s neck for that long as anything…Read more 8:46 – The time that changed the world
Seeing people shot and killed by police on your TV and phone screens for what seems like my whole life is traumatizing. These images repeated over and over start to have a numbing effect on your thoughts and emotions when those people, with their own hopes dreams who were killed, look just like you. It’s…Read more ‘Black lives matter more than black deaths’
Protesting is fine, but voting is the way to bring about change, a UMES senior says Tuesday, June 16, 2020 By Stephen Ayres The living room is almost a sacred place in my household, a place where I received wisdom and knowledge beyond my years – not only when I was a child but even…Read more A father’s lesson 50 years on
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 A four-year study of small-scale and minority specialty-crop farmers in Maryland, Delaware and Tennessee shows those who play a prominent role in their social networks realize greater profits. Supported by a half-million dollar USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant, the research can help farming groups and agricultural support…Read more Study shows small farm success linked to networks
$50,000 will help update the university’s special collections’ archives The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has been awarded a $50,000 federal grant it will use to begin reorganizing and modernizing its history archives. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries, announced Thursday that 22 projects would…Read more UMES receives ‘history and culture’ grant
‘50s jazz icon studied briefly at Maryland State College Wednesday, June 3, 2020 A single-car accident in Princess Anne in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday, June 3, 1950, killed two young adults and left six others injured. One of the survivors was Clifford Brown of Wilmington, Del., who had just finished his first semester as a student…Read more Remembering Clifford Brown
Puerto Rico native reaches the professional summit for a marine biologist Monday, June 1, 2020 It took years of hard work and persevering through hurricanes and a pandemic for Wilmelie Cruz-Marrero, a newly minted Doctor of Philosophy in marine estuarine environmental sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, to achieve her dreams. Cruz-Marrero, who…Read more Hurricanes & a pandemic no match for this Ph.D.
Federal funding will support effort to diversify food, agriculture professions Friday, May 22, 2020 A University of Maryland Eastern Shore researcher has received a $474,500 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), to underwrite a program that will introduce minority students to career opportunities in food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences. …Read more UMES secures grant for summer science training
UMES’ class of 2020 celebrated with a virtual commencement tribute Friday, May 15, 2020 The University of Maryland Eastern Shore conferred 384 degrees today in a way unlike any previous year since the institution opened its doors in 1886. A graduation event billed as a “commencement celebration” took place – not by gathering on campus…Read more ‘Be strong. Be hopeful. Be brave.’
