Forum World Affairs Mindful of the Mosaic How ethnic festivals benefit individuals and communities; for the whole community including everyone from recent migrants, to third generation community members. Forum World Affairs The Long and the Short of It An examination of the landscape of racism and grief in Baltimore in the face of violence sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Forum Research The Promise of Big Data There is something almost ethnographic about the way that big data recedes into the background and quietly collects data about our lived experience.