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Black male educators, woefully underrepresented in U.S. classrooms, say mentorship and a sense of community help ensure they stay in the profession.
Read MoreThis North Carolina School Ranked First in Academic Growth. Here’s How →
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Henderson Collegiate, which is led by Teach For America alumni, stresses data collecting and quarterly assessments to track student mastery.
Read MoreImproving Voting Access for Marginalized Communities One School at a Time →
One Day
Blanca Adriana Ontiveros works with schools, educators and students to boost understanding of how children can advocate for change and push for greater voting access.
Read MoreBuilding Schools Where Students Are Free to Be Their Authentic Selves →
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Despite politics, protests, and even threats, some educators and students are working to make schools and lessons more inclusive of people who are LGBTQ+.
Read MoreStudent Activists Preserve Dark Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration Site →
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A student club called the Amache Preservation Society is helping to curate and teach the dark history of Japanese “internment” in the U.S.
Read MoreAfro-Latinx Students Navigate Racism and Erasure in the Classroom →
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Educators need more data and resources to understand these students. Inclusive curricula can help the students better understand themselves.
Read More‘Overenforcement’: Black Baltimore restaurant owners say they’re harassed and subject to spurious 311 complaints →
The Baltimore Sun
With challenges ranging from the uncertainty of what the latest wave of the coronavirus pandemic means for their business to worker shortages, some of Baltimore’s Black-owned restaurants say they also deal with harassing behavior and spurious complaints rooted in racism.
Read MoreBaltimore farmers are cultivating the city’s first ‘AgriHood,’ heralded for its innovation →
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.
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Read MoreSpecialized prep program overcomes obstacles for Latina girls in Baltimore applying to college →
The Baltimore Sun
The free education and mentor program supports Baltimore City Latinas from 10th through 12th grade to attend college.
Read MoreAlma Cocina Latina brings a taste of Venezuela to Baltimore by sponsoring chefs for visa program →
The Baltimore Sun
Since opening in 2015, Alma has sponsored four chefs from Venezuela on O-1 visas and is in the process of applying for a fifth. The merit-based program grants visas to individuals who posses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics to work in the U.S.
Read More‘I am here so the tears of this mother are not forgotten’: Highlandtown vigil honors 15-year-old lost to gun violence
The Baltimore Sun
Red roses, white lilies and yellow daisies were laid outside the corner store where Jhosy Portillo was shot, alongside handmade signs that read “end gun violence and “rest in power.”
Read MoreClavel chef cooks up free jujitsu classes for youth around the corner from his popular Baltimore restaurant →
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.
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Read MoreMaryland’s DACA holders are starting to receive their stimulus checks. Here’s what they’re doing with the money. →
The Baltimore Sun
While the American Rescue Plan, the stimulus package Congress passed in March is more inclusive than its predecessors, immigration analysts have noted that it still excludes two groups: undocumented individuals, who file their federal income taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), and their U.S.-citizen or legal-immigrant children.
Read MoreBaltimore arts collective focused on Asians emerges from the devastation of the pandemic →
The Baltimore Sun
Amid the pandemic, the Collective has been amplifying AAPI voices in Baltimore and beyond through art and activism.
Read MoreThe industry’s backbone: Backstretch workers at Pimlico in Baltimore kept things running during racing shutdowns, pandemic →
The Baltimore Sun
Backstretch workers are often thought of as Pimlico’s unsung heroes, the ones who get the job done, with little fanfare, attention or pay.
Read MorePaintings, jewelry, salsa dancing and more: Mother’s Day market this Saturday showcases Latino artists →
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.
Read MoreWith tequila and coconut chili, family with ice cream heritage brings authentic Mexican sweets to Highlandtown →
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.
Read MoreBaltimore City College students transform Latin American cultural club into powerful advocacy group →
The Baltimore Sun
Amid the pandemic, SOMOS has worked to address the inequitable access to internet, ensure fair academic opportunity for English language learners and make school reopenings safe.
Read MoreOaxacan activist and journalist organizes for Baltimore’s Latino community →
The Baltimore Sun
During the pandemic, Ortiz has organized a weekly food distribution at Fallstaff Elementary Middle School that serves 250 residents a week, including at least 100 Latinos. With CASA co-workers, he helped 115 residents apply for rental assistance and eviction prevention and connected an additional 150 with cash assistance.
Read MoreBoxed in and no way out: Housing insecurity for Baltimore’s Latino residents worsens during COVID pandemic →
The Baltimore Sun
One by one, the rest of the family fell ill with the virus — her younger son, her husband, Sanchez herself. While they all gradually recovered, she still had to wrestle with another fear: Without her husband working in construction, they were not going to be able to pay rent.
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