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At the vigil, Mayor Brandon Scott offered his condolences to the families and encouraged the Latino community to speak up at an April 20 forum to talk about what the city can incorporate into its violence prevention plan to help make people feel safe.
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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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As a bilingual social worker and facilitator on the Latino Family Advisory Board, Giusti said she’s had an open phone line during the pandemic. She normally addresses clients’ psychosocial needs in person.
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It happens nearly every day. When 16-year-old Sharon España-Montes signs on for classes at City Neighbors High School, five brothers and sisters are trying to connect to their schools at the same time. The internet crashes. Or one of the household’s three children under the age of 5 starts to cry, needing a diaper change, food or someone to play with.
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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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With the pandemic hitting Baltimore’s Latino community harder than almost any other group, advocates and health care providers are pushing on many fronts to make sure these residents get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Vanessa Geffrard, who has degrees in community health and public health, opened her Edmondson Village rowhouse for women to have courageous conversations after she noticed reluctance among friends from her inner circle and professional life to speak openly about sex.
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The trauma resulting from family separations and detentions ultimately can lead to long-term psychological effects, such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, back-to-school workshops led by Dinorah Olmos would be joyous and celebratory in-person events at which mariachi bands were invited to play. Since the last academic year, she has reworked her engagement and outreach strategy to serve 112 parents and 120 students, all online.
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A Columbia couple are among a small network of families across the U.S. who are welcoming asylum-seekers into their homes for long-term stays. The plight of the mother and son they're hosting, they say, reminded them of their own family history.
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Elsa Aguilar Bustos helps as women are having babies. She helps patients brought in for emergency care. Now as she works the 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, she also helps those suffering from COVID-19, along with others
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The five Latina teenagers, all young immigrants to Baltimore, shared the same struggles: trying to find friends, feeling embarrassed when not understanding English, and working to make their way in a new country.
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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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The list of the deceased for the All Souls Day service at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church was much longer than normal. Under the painting of St. Joseph, patron saint of a happy death, was an ofrenda, or altar, with 36 white crosses — one for each parishioner who has died from COVID-19.
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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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While it has not always been the case in the past, activists in Baltimore’s Black and Latino communities have increasingly been working together to fight for a range of social justice issues. Multiracial organizations like The Intersection, Baltimore Algebra Project and SOMOS have tackled school equity, while others work on digital equity and translate those meetings into Spanish.
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Valeria Fuentes, one of the organizers, called the Latino vote “a sleeping giant.” A record 32 million Latino Americans are projected to be eligible to vote this year, according to Pew Research Center, marking the first time that they’ll represent the largest minority group of eligible voters.
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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed crowded conditions and health risks faced by Mexican crab pickers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, according to a new report.
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Pulled over around 2 a.m. on the side of Interstate 95 by a Maryland State Police officer working DUI enforcement, a terrified Julio Cesar Moran-Ruiz made the last phone call of his life, pleading with a friend not to hang up the phone.
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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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