The Baltimore Sun, Washington Post
The corner of Springhill and Cottage avenues in Northwest Baltimore used to be a vacant lot. Today, it’s home to an urban farm that was dubbed one the top 10 innovative farms in the country, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The Baltimore Sun, Washington Post
There is a reward system at Guardian Baltimore, a nonprofit jujitsu gym in Remington. If students come three times in a row, they get a burrito.
The Baltimore Sun
Amid the pandemic, the Collective has been amplifying AAPI voices in Baltimore and beyond through art and activism.
The Baltimore Sun
In the long months of the pandemic, feeling grief and isolation, visual artist Jessy DeSantis found herself wanting to reconnect with her ancestry, and the land, foods and language of Nicaragua.
The Baltimore Sun
The afternoon before their opening weekend, co-owners Paul Plascencia and his wife, Johana Álvarez, bent over the precious ingredients they’d grown up with and began to make their first batch of Mexican paletas — ice pops made of fresh natural fruits.
The Baltimore Sun
Highlandtown is eclectic and creative, filled with taverns, Mariachi bands, Haven Street’s industrial corridor and what’s proclaimed as Baltimore’s first pizzeria.
The Baltimore Sun
Every Sunday in February, the group, called RIOT (Running Is Our Therapy) Squad, has been running to or from a different Black historical landmark in Baltimore
The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post
Minner said the archive is not purely academic. It is also an urgent project of reclamation — of history, of space, of belonging and the power of collective memory.
The Baltimore Sun
Whether atop the base of a Confederate-era statue or perusing the 15th-century gallery at the Walters Art Museum, the Baltimore artist aims to create safe spaces and cleanse environments that were not historically built or intended for her.
The Baltimore Sun
Between co-directing “The House That Holds Us” on Zoom for Everyman Theatre and reading five plays a week online, Baltimore native Paige Hernandez, stayed busy during the first months of her new job.
The Baltimore Sun
They are a small but growing slice of Baltimore’s population: Between 2012 to 2018, U.S. census figures show, the city’s Hispanic and Latino population grew by about 20%. The Baltimore Sun asked five Latino activists about the forces affecting the community and the changes they want to see.
Perfect Strangers Magazine
“To me, flamenco is a melting pot of outcast cultures,” says Phyllis Akinyi. “I view myself as somewhat of an outcast, of a mixture of cultures, of someone who doesn’t necessarily fit in.” Born in Copenhagen to a Kenyan father and a Danish mother, Phyllis is an anthropologist, dance teacher, and bailaora de flamenco who now lives in Madrid.
The Sandspur
The campus visitor was kept secret until the morning of the event, and att endees had to win their golden tickets through a lott ery system. The news caused such a frenzy around campus—proving that a boy band from the 60s can still make fans weak at the knees half a century later.