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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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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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Amid the pandemic, the Collective has been amplifying AAPI voices in Baltimore and beyond through art and activism.
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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.
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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.
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Highlandtown is eclectic and creative, filled with taverns, Mariachi bands, Haven Street’s industrial corridor and what’s proclaimed as Baltimore’s first pizzeria.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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