The Beat, like everywhere else, is trying to figure out how to do what we…
Lead by student group Students Organizing a Multicultural and Open Society (SOMOS), Baltimore City Public…
Read More →A little over week after the billboard on top of Mayor Jack Young’s campaign headquarters…
Read More →The few Baltimoreans who were out and about this morning in the Station North area…
Read More →“America Strong” military flights over some of the United States’ hardest hit cities offered as…
Read More →On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond…
Read More →On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond…
Read More →On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond…
Read More →On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond…
Read More →On April 25, Writers in Baltimore Schools held a write-in for its members to respond…
Read More →Five years later, very little regarding Freddie Gray has been settled. We still do not…
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The Right To Breathe: Baltimore’s Clean Air Act struck down
I was deeply disappointed to learn that on March 27, 2020, U.S. District Judge George…
Social Distancing-ing: John Nagle
The Beat, like everywhere else, is trying to figure out how to do what we do right now to be useful—especially because as of late we’ve doing events such as co-presenting Real…
Will the Orioles step up to the plate for its concession workers?
Major League Baseball has pledged $1 million per team for ballpark employees facing financial hardship from the delay of the baseball season because of the coronavirus, but hundreds of concession workers who…
Government Meetings and Activist, Social Justice Events—3/4-3/11
Wednesday, March 4. Lawrence Lanahan: Systemic Racism in Baltimore: The Education and Enrichment Committee is continues our exploration of racial justice in our society and in our hearts. 6:15-8:30 p.m., St. Vincent…
An Introduction to Ranked Choice Voting
In Baltimore, there are more than thirty mayoral candidates—most of them Democrats, which means that the city’s next mayor is really decided during the primary election on April 28 rather than in…
Breaking Trauma’s Dangerous Silence
Too often, as young people, our voices are overlooked and unheard. We’re deemed too young to have experienced anything that could have deeply impacted our lives. In reality, the opposite is true. According…
Government Meetings and Activist, Social Justice Events—2/26-3/4
Wednesday, February 26. School Information Session: School information session for families at closing schools in the southwest region. 4-6 p.m., Cherry Hill Elementary/Middle School, 801 Bridgeview Rd. Mayoral Transportation Forum: Voting local…
Government Meetings and Activist, Social Justice Events—2/19-2/26
Wednesday, February 19. February Commission on Sustainability Meeting: Please join commissioners and staff for our monthly Commission on Sustainability meeting. Meetings are open to the public. 5-7 p.m., Enoch Pratt Free Library,…
Government Meetings and Activist, Social Justice Events—2/12-2/19
Wednesday, February 12. Vision 2020 Park Heights: A New Path Forward: A discussion about what this new decade in Park Heights will look like. 6-8 p.m., Zeta Center for Healthy and Active…