A group of civilians creating a buffer between rioters and riot cops. Taken by Van Applegate, it sheds light on the recent events in Baltimore. He asked one of the peacemakers and they responded saying, “If there was no buffer, the situation could escalate like it did yesterday.” “Yesterday was a day for the community’s voice to be heard,” he said. When Applegate remarked that the difference between last night and tonight was astounding he responded with, “Today, it’s being heard in a different way.” Amazing to say the least, have you seen it being shown on CNN? No of course you haven’t and you probably won’t. The media keeps bombarding us with such negative events, why is that? There are so many positive news stories and pictures like this one above but the media chooses to focus on the same negative pictures and videos. There may be some reason as to…

May 29th, 2015. 40 years ago from today during the Vietnam War we had Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end. This picture is of South Vietnamese civilians scrambling to board a CIA helicopter during the evacuation of the US embassy in Saigon! Amazing how we look to find history all around us but forget that there was a ton happening years ago each very day! Spend some time looking at news events from not just today but years ago!

April 15th was a week ago from today. That day is significantly valued higher in Major League Baseball and a triumph in the african-american community. What makes April 15th so significant? April 15 was Opening Day in 1947, Jackie Robinson’s first season in the Major Leagues. His debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers (today known as the Los Angeles Dodgers) ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation, also known as the baseball color line, or color barrier. On that one day, all players, coaches, and managers on both teams, and the umpires, wear #42 on their jerseys to celebrate Jackie Robinson and his contribution to both baseball and our country in general.

Bakermat-One Day (Vandaag)

I listen to this deep house style of music and I found that Bakermat took his style along with MLK’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and produced this song. I love how he is able to take this beautiful speech on love and equal rights and turn it into music. It’s history mixed with present music.

Professor Blum

Has left the room

…and he ain’t coming back.

“Monty” Montezuma. The stone base was presented as a gift to the school by the class of 1937. In fact, Hord’s Aztec was so admired that in 1941 it was removed from the northeast corner of the quad and shipped to New York for an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Today, artists still appreciate the statue.