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Did you know that there are entire worlds in the clouds?Where the children are made of stardust and their ancient ancestors still guide them. I visited onceI gained wings and traveled through their lifeTheir kingdoms.However It was only a taste of what they had to offer because only through death co...
"Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition is carrying myriad ways of being human into the future. We are consistently moving towards intentional, loving, creative communities absent of the oppressive drug war."
Things feel hard right now. The pandemic is not over — it is still taking lives and leaving people, young and old, with long-term illnesses. Prices for food and gas are still high. As I write this, the city reached the benchmark of 300 lives lost to crime. Still, the holiday season is upon us […...
Daniels heads up the Black Girls Vote Research Network, which brings together researchers and community members, to help support the political empowerment of Black Women.
Ashley Daniels, of Black Girls Vote, uses her work to better understand how power works, or doesn’t, for Black women. Black Girls Vote is a nonpartisan group dedicated to highlighting the political needs of Black women – a group that is often very much relied on and neglected at the same time. B...
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Mervo was about to begin its defense of a state title captured nine months prior, and the game would be the first time Mervo head coach Pat Nixon got to see just how much talent he truly had.
The last time Sterling Thomas saw his teammate Jeremiah Brogden alive was in the hallway at Mergenthaler Vocational High School just before the football team’s first game of the season on September 2. The two varsity players met briefly, when Thomas was on his way to the multipurpose room at Merge...
In Baltimore, Des Moines and Minneapolis, publications are reviving an old and important form of journalism.
In Baltimore, Des Moines and Minneapolis, publications are reviving an old and important form of journalism
NoPiXAfterDark was officially launched as an audio podcast in 2019.
Aaron Dante has created a platform to highlight voices both in Baltimore and beyond. But while he is interested in reaching audiences elsewhere, his anchor and roots are here in the city, in Baltimore. He says his work is about making sure that misconceptions about this place are dispelled. Whether....
Neopol Savory Smokery specializes in smoked meats and sides. You may have seen their smoked mussels and lobster rolls at a local farmers market.
The Neopol Savory Smokery location on Hollins Street was buzzing with activity when we shot the photos for this story. I noticed several hospital staff stopping in to buy lunch, along with other people who were also at the hospital to visit relatives. Neopol staff made it a point to take time to spe...
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From 1910 to 1970, more than six million Black Americans fled the American South to escape racist violence and the social, cultural, and economic oppression of Jim Crow.
A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration features the work of Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae Hamilton, Leslie Hewitt, Steffani Jemison, Robert Pruitt, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, and Carrie Mae Weems. The...
As a child, “Scrooged” was one of film critic Dominic Griffin's favorite Christmas movies.
In 1988, four years removed from his greatest failure (an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s “The Razor’s Edge”), comedy giant Bill Murray brought Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” kicking and screaming into the modern era with “Scrooged.” But in the 30-plus years since, why ha...
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This year has been one full of both triumphs and challenges. I still haven’t gotten the hang of this hazy pandemic hellscape. I still haven’t mastered the elusive “work-life balance,” but I’m very grateful to be living and working at this paper, in this city. December always serves as a ti...
Since the pandemic began, politicians and judges have decided whose lives and whose health mattered.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began to rapidly spread and shut down civic life across the country in March 2020, Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Ellen Barbera released judicial guidelines as a response. This story also appeared in Baltimore Courtwatch Since the pandemic began, politicians and jud...
Black cowboys and cowgirls, dressed in their finest, competed for prizes and gathered to maintain, honor, and reclaim Black western culture.
Bill Pickett, born in 1870 in Travis County, Texas, is perhaps the most famous Black cowboy and was one of the first Black cowhands in rodeo. He was the inventor of “bulldogging.” This technique of rodeo steer wrestling — grabbing a steer by the horns and twisting its neck — became popular, ...
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Join Hard Histories at Hopkins for a virtual conversation centering reparations in Baltimore through examining the re-launch of the news publication, the Bal...
BLKVAPOR’s EP, VAPORISING, is a three-song meditation on intentionality, community, care, love—and dread.
Seeing and hearing BLKVAPOR is the best way to fully understand the q***r punk band’s mission and message. “If you haven’t seen BLKVAPOR live, you really should. Especially if you are a q***r person or a woman in the hardcore or punk scene,” vocalist/bassist Jamie “Proxy” Grace told me. ...
A poem from Writers in Baltimore Schools participant Madison Hall.
“Epidemic” Notes from a newspaper archive Existing. They’re here, but why? Teenagers with their bottles of window cleaner. I have so many questions leafing through old yellowed clips and standing shoulder to shoulder in a warm room. It feels like history, but the pieces are missing— the ques...
Under normal conditions, the district is able to deal with this annual migration by finding teacher applicants, interviewing them, and filling the vacancies.
It’s an annual tradition in Baltimore. Each summer, the district hemorrhages hundreds of teachers and scrambles to fill vacancies, just before welcoming more than 77,000 children back to school in late August. “Baltimore is a high turnover district,” Cristina Duncan Evans, teacher chapter chai...
No one should be punished for defending themselves against domestic violence.
No one should be punished for defending themselves against domestic violence. This story also appeared in Baltimore Courtwatch And yet, across the United States, it is the horrific practice of prosecutors to criminalize survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence for self-defense. According to...
Mason’s most arresting pieces are large, layered collages that are mounted on a few of the museum’s walls.
There’s no part of growing that isn’t retracing your steps. It’s a complicated, one-step-forward-two-steps-back process that, while frustrating, eventually helps grow you into a different version of yourself. In late August, artist Charles Mason III talked about this process and how it is infl...
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In Baltimore, Des Moines and Minneapolis, publications are reviving an old and important form of journalism
The 2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Arts Prize winner James Williams II creates sculptural paintings about identity, self-portraiture, parenthood, and Blackness.
The 2022 Janet & Walter Sondheim Arts Prize winner James Williams II creates sculptural paintings about identity, self-portraiture, parenthood, and Blackness. His three-dimensional works vary in size and in media (oil paint, fiber, video, a lot of velcro) and all elicit a sense of naïveté and wond...
When rapper Brian Ennals and multi- instrumentalist and producer Tariq “Infinity Knives” Ravelomanana took the stage at hybrid performance and visual arts space Metro Gallery, the duo blended genre to their musical whims.
At the beginning of director Shirley Clarke’s 1985 documentary Ornette: Made in America, free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman returns to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, to receive a key to the city. The film rolls out in nonlinear fragments revolving around Coleman’s performance at the Fort ...
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“Baltimore is desperately seeking a savior,” said Carol Ott, Tenant Advocacy Director at Fair Housing Action Center of Maryland.
City Hall's deal with a New York developer in Poppleton illustrates the lengths to which Baltimore will go to attract development.
"Nope" is a stunning achievement in visual storytelling.
At a time where there are only two other directors in Hollywood who can get original, non-superhero movie-related ideas greenlit (1), director Jordan Peele has doubled down on the success of his back-to-back “social horror” thrillers Get Out and Us with a new film that’s more ferociously ambit...
Housing in Baltimore is a numbers game.
Baltimore has a math problem. And it’s not just how much money it spends on its police budget. With more than 14,000 vacant homes — and that’s the official city count, housing advocates estimate the number of vacant houses at closer to 40,000 — investing in a home in the city can be a dicey ...
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In the incident in the Harbor, video shows a group of children being moved on by a man wielding a bat, and kids responding to a conflict where tempers ran hot.
Marilyn Mosby came back with the charges in short order. It had been a week since Timothy Reynolds, a 48-year-old white man, was shot and killed after confronting a group of squeegee kids while wielding a bat. And, within a few hours of his arrest, the 15-year-old Black boy accused of gunning down R...
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Poppleton's Sonia Eaddy fought City Hall and a New York developer—and won.
For the Eaddys, their home, located in the Poppleton neighborhood, means roots—a place that family can go. Sonia Eaddy said that her grandson, who just got out of school, is staying with her now, in this four-bedroom home tucked into a quiet corner of West Baltimore.
Rewind: Early on in “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.”, the feature debut from writer/director Adamma Ebo, there is a moment that perfectly encapsulates the film’s entire deal.
Early on in “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul.”, the feature debut from writer/director Adamma Ebo, there is a moment that perfectly encapsulates the film’s entire deal. Disgraced pastor Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown) and his wife Trinitie (Regina Hall) are preparing for the grand reopeni...
Rewind: In Baltimore, where dance music and Black club culture are so important, events like Collective Minds are a chance to celebrate.
The Collective Minds Festival is a celebration of house music. In Baltimore, where dance music and Black club culture are so important, events like Collective Minds are a chance to celebrate. It’s always free and open to dancers of all ages. This year it was held on September 3 at Pearlstone Retre...
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Air signs: In 2022, some of you were thrust into the limelight. This may mean you received a promotion, saw an increase of work responsibilities, or were positioned as a leader or expert in your field.
Air Signs: Aquarius, Gemini, Libra Seven of Wands + Ten of Wands + The Magician rx In 2022, some of you were thrust into the limelight. This may mean you received a promotion, saw an increase of work responsibilities, or were positioned as a leader or expert in your field. Whatever the case, there a...
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Over the past week, communities across the country have risen up with protests and actions happening in all fifty states. While George Floyd is not the first person killed by police, what happened in Minneapolis seems to be a tipping point for those tired of witnessing injustice time and again. "Civil Unrest and the Fight for Justice" will look at what this current wave of protests mean, how the media is covering these incidents, the attacks on press and civilians who are exercising their First Amendment rights, and how the rhetoric of criminality comes from our elected leaders including the President. Speakers include Tiffany Roberts of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Maha Hilal from Justice for Muslims Collective, Nora Benavidez from PEN America, Lisa McCray editor of the Baltimore Beat and moderated by Anoa Changa from Prism.
Stuck in the house? Social distancing at work? Need a break from the kids? Join Real News' Andrew Corkery, Leandro Lagera, Charles Lenchner, and Tunde Ogunfolaju as we discuss some of the news stories that have us terrified today. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate.
Voting local is the single most important thing you can do to make Baltimore a more livable city. Join us to hear from City Council President candidates about their visions for Baltimore's transportation future. This forum is hosted by Bikemore in Action 501(c)(4), and developed in partnership with The Real News Network, Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition, other transportation advocacy organizations, and transit riders and operators. Confirmed candidates: Nick Mosby Leon Pinkett Shannon Sneed Dan Sparaco Carl Stokes
People in Baltimore rely on public transportation to get to work, get to school, do their shopping, and more. However, transportation access in Baltimore is sharply divided between the haves and the have-nots. There are people working all over the city to make transportation truly accessible for everyone here. Join The Real News at their monthly public newsroom, Real Talk Tho, for a discussion about what people are doing to fix Baltimore’s deeply-entrenched transportation issues and how to join the fight.
A non-partisan forum where Mayoral candidates from all parties will be asked to respond to the results of the Blueprint for Baltimore survey In October, November, and December, OSI-Baltimore and community partners CASA, Black Leaders Organizing for Change, Baltimore Votes, the No Boundaries Coalition, and Black Girls Vote surveyed thousands of Baltimore residents, focusing on some of the city’s most marginalized communities, as part of the Blueprint for Baltimore survey. The results of the Blueprint survey will be released in a mid-January report and OSI and its community partners will host a series of Mayoral and City Council President forums to ask candidates to respond to the people’s priorities. The first forum for Mayoral Candidates will be Feb. 5th with moderators Tom Hall of WYPR and Lisa Snowden-McCray of the Baltimore Beat and the Real News Network.
A non-partisan forum where Mayoral candidates from all parties will be asked to respond to the results of the Blueprint for Baltimore survey In October, November, and December, OSI-Baltimore and community partners CASA, Black Leaders Organizing for Change, Baltimore Votes, the No Boundaries Coalition, and Black Girls Vote surveyed thousands of Baltimore residents, focusing on some of the city’s most marginalized communities, as part of the Blueprint for Baltimore survey. The results of the Blueprint survey will be released in a mid-January report and OSI and its community partners will host a series of Mayoral and City Council President forums to ask candidates to respond to the people’s priorities. The first forum for Mayoral Candidates will be Feb. 5th with moderators Tom Hall of WYPR and Lisa Snowden-McCray of the Baltimore Beat and the Real News Network.
A field of 32 candidates -- 24 Democrats and 8 Republicans -- are looking to fill the congressional seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Elijah Cummings last October. Cummings died Oct. 17 at the age of 68. He had a rare form of cancer called thymic carcinoma. Maryland voters will have an important decision to make next year when they must pick who can best represent the 7th congressional district, which includes parts of Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and Howard County. At our Dec. 3 Real Talk Tho, The Real News Network will talk about issues that show why this election is so important, including the candidates’ positions on how to best represent Baltimore, the investigation into President Donald Trump, and the Green New Deal.
After decades of service on the Baltimore City Council, Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke is retiring. “I regard the people of the great 14th as my extended and beloved family—and always will,” Clarke wrote in a May email announcing her decision. “But the time is right for a new generation to assume leadership and responsibility in our crucial corner of the City. The person we elect will contribute ideas and talents to the most progressive and diligent City Council I have ever had the honor to work with. The time is right to make the coming transition of 2020 the most promising possible.” To help residents make an informed decision about who will next fill this seat, we are teaming up with citizens in Baltimore, BmoreNow.org, and the Greater Remington Improvement Association to present a forum for the 14th City Council District. Baltimore’s primary election will be held on April 28, 2020. The forum will be held in the garage at R. House from 6:30-8:30 p.m. To submit questions, click https://sites.google.com/view/baltimore-d14?fbclid=IwAR2d5dHtUFij2eH9B91qBbv9OT-LbVZ7v0er0dbIYvtnI1HgdTDFzXzC1cI
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