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SOURCE: Baltimore Magazine
2/25/2023
Will Baltimore's Black Communities Ever See Justice for the "Highway to Nowhere"?
The Robert Moses-designed expressway displaced Black families and neighborhoods for a stub of a freeway that ultimately stretched for less than two miles and does not connect to the rest of the interstate system.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/31/2022
HBO's "We Own This City" and Baltimore's Long History of Police Brutality
by Mary Rizzo
A Baltimore historian notes that the Black community's efforts to fight police brutality are much older than the War on Drugs.
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SOURCE: Hard Histories (Johns Hopkins University)
3/8/2022
The Story of Adeline Henson
by Martha S. Jones
Adeline Henson's story shows the necessity of digging beneath the surface of documentary sources to uncover the humanity of enslaved people.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
4/26/2021
The Perils Of Participation
by Amanda Phillips de Lucas
The construction of US Highway 40 in West Baltimore blighted a Black community with far-reaching results. But it's important to understand that road planners used a selective idea of participatory planning to manufacture community consent for the project.
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SOURCE: Public Books
2/5/2021
On Baltimore: Narratives and City Making
by Bo McMillan
A Review of Mary Rizzo's "Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire," which argues that development interests in the city have used popular culture to craft an image of eccentric white ethnic residents that erases the city's racial segregation and the interests of the city's Black majority.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/13/2020
A UMBC Professor is Documenting the History of the Lumbee Indian Community in Baltimore
Folklorist Ashley Minner is collecting artifacts and documentation of the Lumbee community in Baltimore, a large and vital community of urban Native Americans that has had its existence obscured and erased.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10/5/2020
A Native American Community in Baltimore Reclaims Its History
Very few people are aware that there was once a sizeable population of American Indians, the Lumbee tribe, who lived in the neighborhoods of Upper Fells Point and Washington Hill.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
10/7/2020
Accuracy and Authenticity in a Digital City
by Anne Sarah Rubin
The technological capacity to render the city of the past in minute detail doesn't replace the work of interpreting and understanding how people lived in its spaces.
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SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
6/29/2020
Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down. Now, What Do We Do About Memorials to Slaveholders like Washington and Jefferson?
Historians Paul Finkelman, Martha S. Jones, and Kirk Savage discuss the legacies of such monuments and suggest how to reckon with the damage they, and the figures they represent, have caused.
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SOURCE: Marketplace
4/16/2020
Inequality by Design: How Redlining Continues to Shape our Economy
Professor of history Nathan Connolly visited the travelling exhibit "Undesign the Redline."
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SOURCE: City Lab
7/29/19
What 'Infests' Baltimore? The Segregation History Buried in Trump's Tweets
by Paige Glotzer
In slamming Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings’s 7th District as “rodent infested,” Trump borrows from the rhetoric that first segregated the city.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
July 29, 2019
President Trump’s Baltimore tweets were racist — but he also fails to grasp what ails our cities
by Sara Patenaude
Decades of racist policies — not absentee congressmen — explain cities’ biggest struggles.
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SOURCE: Time
7/29/19
After Trump's Tweets, Historian Paige Glotzer Explains How Segregation Has Shaped the City of Baltimore
"The tweets said two things — that Baltimore was full of rodents, but also that no humans would want to live there. That’s untrue."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
4/23/19
A quest to reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘reservation’
by Ashley Minner
The East Baltimore Church of God, which was founded by Lumbee Indians, was once located in the heart of ‘the reservation,’ in the 1700 block of E. Baltimore Street.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-16-17
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation
Beginning soon after midnight on Wednesday, a crew, which included a large crane and a contingent of police officers, began making rounds of the city’s parks and public squares, tearing the monuments from their pedestals and carting them out of town.
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6-12-15
Am I the Only One Who’s Tired of the Predictable Cycle of Police Violence?
by Michael McQuillan
It’s evolved into a horrid choreography of broken promises.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
5-26-15
Can We Head Off a Long Hot Summer of Riots and Rebellion?
by Peter Dreier
The nation's attention has been focused on the recent riots in Baltimore, but the harsh truth is that they could have happened in any major city.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News
5-15-15
The other racial divide in policing
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Throughout history, departments have discriminated against African-American cops
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SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
5-9-15
Channeling Spiro Agnew in the Baltimore riots
by Charles Holden, Zach Messitte, Jerald Podair
His reaction to the unfolding situation helped make him a household name and led to a reshaping of American electoral politics.
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5-7-15
President Obama Said “We Must Not Feign Concern and Then Go About Business as Usual.” Here’s How He Could Address the Baltimore Riot’s Root Causes.
by Michael McQuillan
He asserted in his first Presidential campaign that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Now we are waiting on him.