March 24, 2021 – Billie's Back Porch

March 24, 2021

Marvin Hagler helped boxing soar in the 1980s, and nothing topped his epic TKO of Thomas Hearns

By Gene Wang March 13, 2021 at 11:52 p.m. EST Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s death Saturday at 66, which was announced by his wife, Kay, on the Facebook page for fans of the fighter who legally changed his name to “Marvelous,” shook the boxing world so deeply not only because of his standing as an iconic middleweight of his or…

March 24, 2021

Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & Finance

The University of Chicago Center on Law and Finance and the University of Virginia John W. Glynn, Jr. Law & Business Program present “A Workshop on Race and the Law of Business & Finance.” Scholars present their research on how the law interacts with issues of race in business and finance. University of Chicago Law School Dean Thomas J.…

March 24, 2021

Five things that must happen to get people vaccinated

BY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll released this week found 30 percent of U.S. adults overall did not want the vaccine, a number that spiked to 49 percent among Republican men. Make signing up for an appointment easier Make…

March 24, 2021

Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes

Since its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the first. By Daphne A. Brooks March 12, 2021 If it’s Grammy season, it’s time for the annual attention paid to what many see as the Recording…

March 24, 2021

A push to save landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and better understand today’s racial inequities

By Mark Guarino March 13, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST CHICAGO — As a child in the 1950s, Amelia Cooper lived in a multigenerational home in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood that often served as a settlement house for friends of her grandfather, the blues musician Muddy Waters. Many were musicians, arriving from the rural South as Waters…

March 24, 2021

Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit Becomes New Home of Tuskegee Airmen Museum, Virtual Grand Opening on 3/22

Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2021/03/13/tuskegee-airmen-wright-museum/115555474/

March 24, 2021

Yo-Yo Ma played a surprise concert during his post-vaccination observation period

Tod Perry 03.15.21 Internationally-acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma had 15 minutes to kill last Saturday after getting his COVID-19 vaccination at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, so he treated everyone to an impromptu concert. Ma is a part-time Berkshires resident and was receiving his second COVID-19 shot at the vaccination site. Richard Hall of the Berkshire…

March 24, 2021

Pineapple Pie

Baked pineapple pie is a common Mexican dessert that’s not that easy to find in the States. Active: 45 mins Total: 2 hrs 45 min Original recipe submitted by Micah A Leal and published at Southern Living Recipes. Ingredients Dough: One box of Pillsbury prepared pie crusts (2 9-inch crusts per box) because I’m lazy right now, otherwise…

March 24, 2021

The American Rescue Act

By John Stoehr March 09, 2021 The United States Senate passed Saturday a covid relief package worth about $2 trillion.2 It is a giant piece of legislation, in size and scope, akin to the Social Security Act of 1935 in terms of impact on the farthest corners of our society. It is the sixth of six spending…