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In 1987, Al Campanis, a vice president of the L.A. Dodgers, appeared on Nightline and made some deeply offensive remarks about why there weren't more black managers in baseball. AL CAMPANIS: No, I don't believe it is prejudices. I truly believe that they may not some of the necessities. KOPPEL: Two days later, he was fired. We might say he was canceled. (…) KOPPEL: Cancel culture, as it is called these days, is a social weapon that has served the outrage of both the left -- SUNNY HOSTIN: When you cross that kind of societal norm, you must pay the consequence.

How the Soros Connection Has Small Bard College Aiming for the $1 Billion Endowment Club The famed financier has a special Holocaust-related bond with the school’s president. Result: Now there’s a shift from the old method that barely kept the junk-rated institution afloat. Billionaire investor George Soros has a decadeslong connection to Bard College. In the 1980s, the school caught the famed financier’s attention when it started a residency program for artists who lived under authoritarian regimes, in nations such as Burma and China.  This had a special resonance for Soros, a big-tim...

Bard SummerScape Announces Live Programming With a Concert Directed by Daniel Fish, a Pam Tanowitz World Premiere & More Additional programming includes “Black Roots Summer" curated by Michael Mwenso and Jono Gasparro & a commissioned concert from Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.by Chloe Rabinowitz Bard Summerscape is returning to live performance with a wide-ranging and adventurous lineup this summer. Staged for limited in-person audiences, the 2021 season presents the 31st Bard Music Festival, "Nadia Boulanger and Her World," which pays tribute to one of the most important female figures in cl...

Elegy: Snow in June. View here. Friday, April 30 12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s Reverie, and Kreisler’s 1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Regist...

An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98, Schumann’s Liederkries, Op. 39, and Beethoven’s Aus Goethes Faust, Op. 75, No. 3. Register and view here until April 18. 8 pm ET: Tippet Rise Art Center presents Spring Festival. For the first day of Tippet Rise’s Spring Festival, two films have been captured at the DiMenna Center. The first features violinist Katie Hyun—founding member of the Amphion String Quartet—performing Vytautas Barkauskas’s Partita for violin solo. For the second film, Tippet Rise’s Artistic Advisor Pedja Mužijevic performs in a program titled Is It Real (A Loving Homa...