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    Marvin "Doc" Cheatham of the Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association speaks out against food deserts at a rally outside City Hall on Monday, January 16th. A group of organizers from the Peoples Power Assembly, the Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association, and the Unemployed Workers Union held the rally to draw awareness to the increasing number of food deserts in Baltimore City.
    Deserted: City’s Pigtown neighborhood mourns, mobilizes after losing its only supermarket
    When PriceRite closed, Pigtown leaders feared the neighborhood would become a new food ‘desert.’
    Senator Ben Cardin, US Representative Kweisi Mfume, Senator Chris Van Hollen and Senator Larry Young present a check from the US Treasury for four million dollars to the Arena Players, the oldest continually performing and historically African-American community theatre in the United States, on January 19, 2023.
    ‘A dream come true’: Arena Players receives $4 million for building improvements
    The theater is still hoping to raise an additional $1.7 million for renovations.
    (Left to right) President of Carrollton Manor Neighborhood Improvement Association Pamela Green, Executive Director of Green Street Academy Denisha Logan, Mayor Brandon Scott, Board Chair of the Boys & Girls Club of Metropolitan Baltimore Nik Tatum, LEVEL82 Co-founder and former Baltimore Raven Torrey Smith, and President of the Baltimore Ravens Sashi Brown speak at an event announcing a $20 million commitment to create Baltimore Ravens Boys & Girls Club at Hilton Recreation Center.
    Baltimore Ravens donate $20 million for Boys & Girls Club in West Baltimore
    The money will pay for a renovation of the center that will include new athletic fields, activity and game spaces, tutoring spaces and indoor and outdoor gathering spaces for the community.
    DTLR in partnershop with The Movement Team has a new "storefront" for students located at the Baltimore City Public Schools Headquarters. Akil Trice of The Movement Team and Tremayne Lipscomb Sr, Community Outreach Director for DTLR, have worked together for several years in providing the community with footwear.
    DTLR storefront, and new sneakers, helps kids returning to school
    A new resource space in the Baltimore City Public Schools headquarters is making sure that a student’s first steps back into school is paired with a support system and shoes and apparel.
    Josephine Battagalia, 78, lives about a block away from the Engine 14 fire station.
    Baltimore’s oldest firehouse named historic landmark; eligible for $5 million for renovations
    The firehouse is slated to receive capital funds from the city in the next two fiscal years for improvements and repairs. Additionally, there’s $5 million in state funding allocated for the renovation after Tuesday’s landmark decision.
    Program director at Hilton Field House, Aaron Maybin, poses for a portrait at Hilton Field House, in Baltimore, Thursday, January 5, 2023.
    In wake of mass shooting, Aaron Maybin offered a young teen a safe space and two books
    Maybin had to teach him about how “death is all in decisions,” he said.
    Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, Monday, October 17, 2022.
    Residents hope mass shooting brings new urgency to crime at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
    Though crime has dropped significantly in recent years, the Edmondson Village shopping center and some of the immediate areas around it have historically grappled with and complained about crime — and many say it is still problem.
    A vigil was held in West Baltimore for Dylan King, 8, who was shot and killed last week on December 30, 2022.
    “We love you Dylan”: Family, friends hold vigil for 8-year-old boy found shot Friday
    Dylan King was energetic, kind and loved sports and video games, his family said.
    One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
    Family of Baltimore teen shot and killed during school lunch hour asks community for justice
    The family of a teenager who died after he was shot alongside four other Baltimore students at a shopping center on the outskirts of town says they are heartbroken.
    One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
    One teen dead, four others shot in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
    A 16-year-old boy has died and four other teenage boys were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center.
    Illustration of Marble Hill historic street sign, Clarence Mitchell, Lillie Carroll Jackson and Thurgood Marshall, with map of Marble Hill neighborhood in background.
    Tours highlight civil rights legacy in Upton’s Marble Hill
    Resident leaders such as George McMechen, one of Baltimore’s first Black lawyers, and Dr. Lillie Carroll Jackson, a 30-year president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, lived in or around the neighborhood.
    Charles "Choo" Smith wants to build an "oasis of opportunities" at a former school building in Coldspring. The CommuniVersity will provide intergenerational services with an emphasis on youth.
    Former Harlem Globetrotter ‘Choo’ Smith has big plans for Northwest Baltimore site
    A West Baltimore native wants to create an epicenter of resources at a former school building in Coldspring.
    Through a line of coloring books, Naomi Winston wants to create “mirrors of representation” for Black and Brown kids and “coils of understanding” for children to educate themselves about other cultures.
    Recent college grad creates line of inclusive coloring books for children
    Naomi Winston, a 22-year-old new to Baltimore, created a line of coloring books for Black and Brown kids, which she named The Creative Representation Empire.
    Breaking News alert
    Boy, 7, fatally shot in West Baltimore rowhouse as gun violence surges to end year
    Police officers discovered the boy’s body upstairs with a gunshot wound to the head.
    Tae Soon Lee talks to Der'eek Fields’ girlfriend who is on speaker phone as he checks out, at Lee's Mini Market, in Baltimore, Thursday, December 1, 2022.
    Behind the plexiglass: A corner store witnesses generations of love and loss in West Baltimore
    “That’s why I call her ‘Mama,’” one customer said. “Everybody loves ‘em because everybody knows ‘em. She’s been here for so long, it’s like she’s family for real.”
    Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
    Maryland Transit Administration subway car derails in Northwest Baltimore Monday night
    A Maryland Transit Authority subway partially derailed above ground Monday evening, according to Baltimore fire officials.
    YGG Tay in 2016.
    The Culture Report: YGG Tay’s downfall is tragic for all involved
    The rapper's legal troubles underline a greater issue where artists are incentivized to make sure the Scarface-ified lifestyle in their music lines up perfectly with real life.
    Colin Williams is receiving support to get housing after living in Druid Hill Park for over a year and creating artwork.
    Druid Hill Park artist cherishes kindness of strangers as he transitions to housing
    Colin Williams speaks out about leaving Druid Hill Park, a place he called home for over a year and where he built a collection of artwork known as the “sculpture garden.”
    Edmondson Village Shopping Center in Baltimore, Monday, October 17, 2022.
    City supports effort to amend covenant restricting Edmondson Village Shopping Center renovation
    Developer Chicago TREND wants to purchase the shopping center and renovate, but it’s under the condition that certain parts of the covenant are amended.
    Employees with Baltimore's Department of Public Works demolish Colin Williams' art exhibit in Druid Hill Park on Thursday, Dec. 15.
    Work of Druid Hill Park artist dismantled as he gets temporary housing with city assistance
    Colin Williams considered himself the 'unofficial artist-in-residence' at the park where he had lived for a year.
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