(BALTIMORE – August 23, 2026) – Frederick Wright has spent much of his life getting things done. Before he became a veteran Urban League executive, before he developed health and quality-of-life programs across the country, and before he began advising a new generation of nonprofit leaders, Wright was a Baltimore basketball player coming of age during one of the most important periods in the city’s sports history. He did not hear about that history secondhand. He lived it. Born in East Baltimore on September 18, 1954, Wright moved into the Somerset housing projects when he was four years old. His…