Carlisle Hashim
Mark Twain wrote, “A, True Story: Repeated Word for Word As I Heard It” about a Black American woman’s reunion with her son near the end of the Civil War. It was first published in 1874. Mary Codd, the mother in the story had a saying passed down from her mother from Maryland. “I wasn’t […]
The Columbian Orator was the first book Frederick Douglass, nee Bailey, bought while living in Baltimore, Maryland. After he published his first of three auto-biographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he went to Ireland to escape his would-be-captors. Hear his story as told by Ann Coughlan, a Frederick Douglass scholar as the […]
The School Sisters of Notre Dame founded Notre Dame of Maryland University located on North Charles Street in Baltimore. Sister Kathleen, SSND taught Flannery O’Connor in Japan and in Baltimore. Listen to her explain the Biblical influences in O’Connor’s short stories. Thomas Merton said that Flannery’s work is similar to Sophocles as well.