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Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems
Kevin Earl Dayhoff Art One-half Banana Stems - www.kevindayhoff.com Address: PO Box 124, Westminster MD 21158 410-259-6403 kevindayhoff@gmail.com Runner, writer, artist, fire & police chaplain Mindless ramblings of a runner, journalist & artist: Travel, art, artists, authors, books, newspapers, media, writers and writing, journalists and journalism, reporters and reporting, technology, music, culture, opera... National & International politics www.kevindayhoff.net For community: www.kevindayhoff.org For art, technology, writing, & travel: www.kevindayhoff.com
Monday, January 19, 2015
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Baltimore Sun: We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech
Aug. 24, 2013 March on Washington tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
Monday, January 19, 2009
Civil Rights movement comes alive through art
By Pam Zappardino, In the Arts Monday, January 19, 2009
Art and history are seldom in the same thought, except in nightmarish memories of darkened rooms and numbing arrays of slides. Art relates to history in a broader sense, though, interpreting, as Webster says, the “record of significant events (as affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causes.” Some view history as, well, “dead,” not relevant to their lives. Art can help change their minds.
I’ve just spent four days on the road down South visiting sites of major campaigns in the civil rights movement. History is alive there and art is its constant companion.
Walking through King International Chapel at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, I saw the gallery of portraits, folks from everywhere who have worked for peace. They came alive through their faces and through the symbols and objects with them in those paintings, explanatory panels filling in the facts.
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Martin Luther King and Marvin Gaye still show us the way
By Kevin Dayhoff
Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 1/14/09
For those who remember the push-button, dashboard AM radios in your cars in the 1960s, you may want to sit down before your read another word.
Last Monday was the 50th anniversary of the creation of Motown Records.
If you remember listening to Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Vandellas, The Miracles, The Commodores, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder on WCAO, congratulations ... you are getting old.
I'm not sure what the format of WCAO is these days, but during the 1960s and well into the 1970s, it was a popular "Top 40" station in Baltimore. In fact, WCAO was one of the first radio stations in Maryland. It began broadcasting in 1922.
By the 1960s, WCAO played a little bit of everything, from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Steppinwolf and Cream to The Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, Glen Campbell and Percy Sledge.
However, my fondest memories are those that recall the Motown sound.
Berry Gordy, according to a "Morning Edition" segment on NPR by Ashley Kahn, was a songwriter and a former boxer when he started the record company on Jan. 12, 1959. It was first called "Tamla Records," but a year later was incorporated as Motown Record Corp.
He started it all with "an $800 loan from his family," according to a Sky News article, "Fifty Years of Motown Celebrated."
The article also noted: "Motown is seen as playing an important role in the racial integration of popular music. It was the first record label owned by an African-American to primarily feature African-American artists who achieved crossover success ...
"Gordy first signed The Matadors, who later changed their name to The Miracles, with their singer William 'Smokey' Robinson becoming the label's vice-president."
Gordy, who is now 79 years old, sold the company in 1988 for $61 million. Not a bad profit from that $800 investment.
Kahn writes that Robinson remembers the day Motown began.
"There were five people there. Berry Gordy said that day, 'We are not going to make black music. We are going to make music for everybody. We are going to make music that has great stories and great beats. We are going to write great songs.' "
And that's just what they did. They wrote great music that people love to this day. Kahn places the origins of the Motown sound into some historical context: "For black America, the 1960s were a decade filled with social protest and raw emotion -- especially in cities like Detroit. And yet this urban center produced uplifting songs of love."
This point was driven home by Jordan: "At Motown, 95 percent of the songs were written by young, black men. ... They wrote for the male and female artists, and brought to it a sense of vulnerability any English professor would be proud of. Coming out of Detroit, one of the harshest environments you could imagine, they elected to write love songs."
Perhaps as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, we can stop and ponder the words of Marvin Gaye from "What's Going On":
"For only love can conquer hate,
You know you've got to find a way,
To bring some understanding here today ...
Talk to me so you can see,
Oh what's going on ..."
Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kdayhoff AT carr DOT org.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
20080118 Westminster Eagle column: Dr. Martin Luther King's enduring words
01/18/08 By Kevin E. Dayhoff
American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote in a book, "Strength to Love," published in 1963:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. ..."
Those words are as enduring today as when written 45 years ago.
The year 1963 was a long time ago and we, as a society, have come along way toward social justice since the days of legally-sanctioned segregation.
And yet we must be constantly vigilant, as new challenges are always on the horizon.
This is especially true today as our nation continues to wallow in a political tar pit like some bellowing mastodon with a hangover. It seems these days that all issues of community, race relations, the environment and public policy quickly deteriorate into a "red versus blue" coarsening of dialogue promoted by a lack of humanity and the intellectually challenged.
Here's a well-kept secret for you -- the red versus blue thing isn't real, except as promoted by pundits and cable television stations that wish to have their way with you.
Leadership is about bringing folks together -- not promoting division.
We could use a few national leaders like Dr. King these days and it's only appropriate that we set aside time every year to attempt to reacquaint ourselves with the practice of solving our problems by cultivating nonviolence and compassion.
Because I haven't taken enough abuse recently, I'll venture to share my view that the recent discussion about Taneytown not being a "
Please re-read the first two paragraphs.
The resolution of Taneytown is a stick in the eye for those of us who are trying to promote
It does little, if nothing, to address the problems of illegal immigration.
The societal and economic cost of illegal immigration is certainly a fair discussion. I mean, what part of illegal is not understood?
Nevertheless, the overall solution needs to occur in Congress, a body politic that, unfortunately, gives new meaning to "pathological dysfunctia."
Furthermore, the resolution coming at a time of the year when we celebrate Dr. King could not be more ironic.
Take a memo: xenophobia as an approach to solving complicated immigration problems is interesting in the way a septic truck running off the road, through your front flower bed and ending up on your front porch is interesting.
The resulting rhetoric, gnashing of teeth and collective hand-wringing only promotes myths and misinformation that distort meaningful debate and mute the questions that demand carefully thought-out solutions.
At this point, the only "sanctuary" I'm interested in is a sanctuary from stories like this one that will only go down as indictments of community leaders who have spent years offering solutions in search of a problem in an attempt to gain political advantage by populism.
This year we commemorate the life and work of Dr. King on Jan. 21, but he was born in
Much of our community will come together to celebrate him this Saturday when the Carroll County NAACP will hold the fifth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at Martin's Westminster at 8 a.m. (If you'd like to go, call the NAACP office at 410-751-7667.)
Meanwhile, what I really wanted to write about is a persistent and perennial question from many young readers and new folks in our community:
"Who was Robert Moton?"
If you have any memories about the old
Considering how angry and passionate folks are about the sanctuary city discussion, my next column may very well be written from an undisclosed location.
Hopefully it is a place that serves grits and has a good stereo system so that I can play Led Zeppelin's remake of Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's "When the Levee Breaks."
Anybody know what that song has to do with Robert Moton?
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Courthouse history seems to match theatrical flair of current case
The eyes of
This, of course, is the historic constitutional test case pertaining to alleged constitutional and procedural irregularities i...
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Something we really must talk about
On Christmas Eve, while many friends and families were preparing to get together and celebrate the holidays, the friends, colleagues and loved ones of Smithsburg police officer Christopher Nicholson, 25, gathered to bury him.
On Dec. 19, Officer Nicholson and the stranger he tried to help, Alison ...
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Monday, January 08, 2007
20070107 MLK Legacy Day at the Carroll Arts Center
Martin Luther King Legacy Day at the
January 7th, 2007
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Martin Luther King Legacy Day
“Ruby Bridges”
Monday, January 15 10:30 am
Free
The true story of Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white
Martin Luther King Legacy Day
Sankofa Dance Troupe
Monday, January 15 2:00 pm
$10 for adults and $7 for CCAC Members, Students 18 & Under and Seniors 60+
Colorful and energetic dancers and pulsating rhythmic drumming combine for an unforgettable experience and introduction to traditional African arts.
Martin Luther King Legacy Day
“Movies, Race and World War II”
Lecturer Tom Cripps
Sponsored by The
Monday, January 15 7:00 pm
Free - Advance Reservations Suggested
Cripps is a retired University Distinguished Professor Emeritus from
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