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Lisa Robinson, WBAL-TV 11
Baltimore’s first African American man to rise from high school cadet to battalion chief in the fire department centers his life around service to his community, and he thanks those who supported him along the way.
Baltimore City Fire Battalion Chief Terrell Taylor, 44, has been paying it forward for 26 years.
“I love helping people. The only thing I wanted to do — and I would pray about this every night — I wanted to help people and give back to the community, pay it forward,” Taylor said.
He started as a cadet with the Baltimore City Fire Department as a 17-year-old attending Edmondson Westside High School.
“The job itself — firefighting, EMS responses — we learned everything,” Taylor said.
Since his cadet days, Taylor has held six positions before becoming a battalion chief.
“He put in a lot of work, a lot of reading, asking questions, preparing yourself for exams to show yourself you’re good enough to do the job at every step,” said retired Deputy Chief Joe Wade, who was Taylor’s mentor.
Taylor said older firefighters invested in him.
“Everybody was helpful. It wasn’t anything about race or anything. People genuinely cared,” Taylor said. “They saw (that if) you were showing initiative and you had drive, they would help you.”
Wade said it was easy for Taylor move up the ranks because he has the right stuff.
“To me, a good firefighter is someone who’s willing to listen, have some heart for firefighting because when everybody is running out, your job’s to go in,” Wade said.
Taylor said the best thing about being a firefighter is the gift it has given him.
“It has allowed me to provide for my family. I grew up in a single-parent household, so I was able to be the father I never had,” Taylor said.
Join a conversation on art and social justice, attend a wizard festival, kickoff Bockfest with new beer, get down to live music at Ludlow’s signature arts fest, cheer for FC Cincinnati at their season opener, and find what you need for your next home improvement project at these weekend events.
Art and Social Justice: An Interactive Experience
21c hosts Black Art Speaks and the Robert O’Neal Multicultural Arts Center for an evening of art, conversations, networking, a book signing, and a sneak peek of Black Art Speaks’ 2023. Discussion panelists include City Councilmember Scotty Johnson, University of Cincinnati Urban Impact Executive Chanda Monroe-Williams, President and CEO of Closing The Health Gap Renee Mahaffery-Harris, and artists Michael Coppage and Annie Ruth.
Feb 23, 5:30–8:30 pm, 21c, 609 Walnut St., downtown
Stare deep into your crystal orb to see a wizard party in your future. The Ludlow Garage hosts an evening full of wizard-themed drinks, dancing, a cosplay costume contest with spellbinding prizes, wizard trivia, games, and more. VIP tickets get you priority entry and a Wizard Fest scarf, T-shirt, cup, wand, and more magical swag in a festival tote.
Feb 24, 8:30 pm, 342 Ludlow Ave., Clifton
Bockfest Weekend at Third Eye Brewing Co.
Feb 24–26, Third Eye Brewing Co., 11276 Chester Rd., Sharonville
Cabin Fever Music & Arts Festival
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, Ludlow’s signature arts and music celebration returns this weekend. Catch live music at Bircus Brewing Co., Second Sight Spirits, Ludlow Tavern, Taste on Elm, Conserva, Beelicious Honey, and other locations around town. See the full lineup of artists and musical acts here.
Feb 25, will call opens 1 pm at Second Sight Spirits, 301 Elm St., Ludlow
FC Cincinnati vs. Houston Dynamo
The Orange and Blue face Houston in their first season opener at TQL Stadium. Show your spirit at the pre-match party at Washington Park and read our columnist Grant Freking’s analysis on the promising 2023 season before you head to the pitch.
Feb 25, 7:30 pm, TQL Stadium, 1501 Central Pkwy., West End
Cincinnati Home and Garden Show
At the first weekend of this festival, more than 350 experts on outdoor living, kitchen and bath, and home improvement can guide you to the resources you need for your next project. Swing by next weekend to see the show’s special guest, HGTV’s Joe Mazza, who you might know as “Home Inspector Joe.”
Feb 25 & 26 and March 2–5, Duke Energy Convention Center, 525 Elm St., downtown
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Why does this matter? Because — barring a powerful rebuttal from Fox — it means that Dominion has met a very high bar in defamation law. Because it’s in the public arena, Dominion has to prove that Fox knew they were airing lies, or “recklessly disregarded” the truth or falsehood of their reports.
It’s tempting to celebrate a verdict against Fox; “reckless disregard” might as well be its slogan. But a blow to the loudest media voice on the right would come at a time, ironically, when other conservatives have launched a fundamental attack on the free press that hits directly on the issue of defamation. At risk is a 58-year-old Supreme Court case that is a powerful protection of First Amendment rights: New York Times v. Sullivan.
In 1960, the NAACP took out a full-page fundraising ad in the New York Times, which criticized the Montgomery, Ala. police department’s treatment of protesters. The ad made a few minor factual errors — how many times Martin Luther King Jr. had been arrested, what songs the protestors sung. Montgomery County police commissioner L.B. Sullivan, who was not mentioned in the ad, sued the newspaper and won a judgment of $500,000 — the equivalent of nearly $5 million today. It was part of a wave of defamation suits brought across the South by public officials who were clearly intending to silence or bankrupt critics in and out of the press.
It was against this background that a unanimous Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 1964. But it went much further. The case, Justice William Brennan wrote, had to be framed in the context of “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
To protect that principle, the court set down a new standard: When it comes to public officials, they had to prove not just that a statement was false and injurious, but that it was made with “actual malice” — an inartful term that meant not “ill will,” but that it was published with willful knowledge that it was false or with “reckless disregard.” (An example: We got an anonymous tip that the governor was beating his children, so we broadcast it.) That standard was not enough for Justices Hugo Black, Arthur Goldberg, and William Douglas, who argued that the First Amendment protection was absolute and unconditional — even lies were protected. The court later expanded the media’s protection from defamation suits so that “public figures” meant pretty much anyone in the public eye, from celebrities to business executives.
In recent years, New York Times v. Sullivan has gotten new scrutiny by powerful conservatives. In 2019, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas argued for a reassessment, amid consideration of a libel lawsuit from a woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. In 2021, Justice Neil Gorsuch pointed to the radical change in the media landscape as a reason to reconsider the law: “What started in 1964 with a decision to tolerate the occasional falsehood to ensure robust reporting by a comparative handful of print and broadcast outlets, has evolved into an ironclad subsidy for the publication of falsehoods by means and on a scale previously unimaginable.”
While these justices did not make an explicitly ideological or partisan point, Federal Appeals Judge Lawrence Silberman did. In a remarkably blunt dissent in 2021 where he called for overturning New York Times v. Sullivan, Silberman wrote:
“Although the bias against the Republican Party — not just controversial individuals — is rather shocking today, this is not new; it is a long-term, secular trend going back at least to the ’70s. (I do not mean to defend or criticize the behavior of any particular politician). Two of the three most influential papers (at least historically), the New York Times and the Washington Post, are virtually Democratic Party broadsheets. And the news section of the Wall Street Journal leans in the same direction. The orientation of these three papers is followed by the Associated Press and most large papers across the country (such as the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Boston Globe). Nearly all television — network and cable — is a Democratic Party trumpet. Even the government-supported National Public Radio follows along.”
The call for weakening New York Times v. Sullivan is also emanating from conservatives in the more explicitly political arena. Trump, no stranger to litigation on both sides of the defamation issue, has argued for its overturn. It’s also now part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ nascent presidential campaign. In a roundtable discussion earlier this month, DeSantis said the ruling served as a shield to protect publications that “smear” officials and candidates. Indeed, the governor has gone further. A bill he proposed that has now been refiled in the Florida legislature would leave the press wide open to lawsuits, including by stating that comments made by anonymous sources would be presumed false in defamation suits.
In other words, if Woodward and Bernstein did not identify “Deep Throat,” or their countless other anonymous sources in Watergate reporting, their stories would have been presumed false under this bill. It would make the effective end of whistleblowers as a tool of investigative reporting. The bill’s sponsor told POLITICO it was also explicitly intended to spur a legal challenge to New York Times v. Sullivan¸ with the goal of overturning it.
None of this is to say that Fox News should escape judgment if its defense team cannot rebut the damaging evidence that is now on the record. But it doesn’t eliminate the need for great caution about the protection the Supreme Court gave the press nearly 60 years ago. In New York Times v. Sullivan, the court took away from public figures the power to bankrupt or intimidate their critics with a storm of litigation. We cannot put that power back in the hands of the powerful again.
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DETROIT – Chalk up another big accolade for Michigan. A museum in the state has just been named the number one art museum in the entire country.
The Detroit Institute of Arts ranks ahead of every other art museum in the U.S. in USA Today’s annual 10Best Competition for top art museum. The results were announced a short time ago.
“Housed within a Beaux Arts building, the Detroit Institute of Arts maintains a collection of some 65,000 works – among the largest and most comprehensive in the United States,” USA Today wrote about its winner. “Visitors can explore human creativity from across the globe as they explore more than 100 galleries, including the Center for African American Art, one of the first collections devoted to African American art at a major museum.”
The DIA was nominated by a panel of experts made up of editors from both USA Today and 10Best.com. The top 10 was then determined by a public vote. The DIA beat out museums in places like California, New Mexico, Indiana and Arizona.
“We couldn’t be prouder of our museum, our amazing team, and the community we serve,” a statement reads on the DIA’s Facebook page. “Thank you to everyone who voted for us and who supports our mission of inspiring and enriching people’s lives through art. We will continue to work hard to provide incredible experiences for our visitors and to celebrate the power of art in all its forms.”
The DIA recently brought in around 70 works from Vincent van Gogh from around the world for its “Van Gogh in American” exhibition. The exhibition, which was six years in the making, ended last month.
Michigan has gotten even more national attention from USA Today’s 10Best Contest Awards in 2023. The Detroit Riverwalk was named the No. 1 Riverwalk in the U.S., Campus Martius Park in downtown Detroit took the top spot for Best Public Square in the U.S, the Michigan Science Center in Detroit came in at number three for U.S. science centers and the Motown Museum ranks number 5 for music museums.
Here are the final results of the top 10 art museums from USA Today:
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