BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 16 -- The Baltimore Museum of Art issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2024: The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, Washington D.C.'s preeminent modern dance company, will present their illuminating multimedia dance performance, We Choose to Go to the Moon, at the BMA on Thursday, March 7 at 6:30 p.m. in honor of Spencer Finch's impressive light installation Moon Dust (Apollo 17). The half-hour performance will be   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2024: On Monday, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed an amicus brief in United States v. Mackey, a caseconcerning the conviction of Douglass Mackey for his 2016 efforts to carry out a voter suppression scheme targeting Black people and other people of color. Mackey used memes on social media to deceive people about where, when, and how they could vote. His p  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 13 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Special to Rice News Ronald L. Sass, a charismatic and outgoing Rice University professor who mastered multiple scientific disciplines, championed education at all levels and used his scientific and diplomatic skills to markedly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rice farming worldwide, has died at age 91. Sass, a professor at Rice for 66 years, died in a Houston hospital Jan. 9 after a brief illness. He was the H  more