(BALTIMORE – October 18, 2022) – Yesterday evening, Chad Hayes, Howard Tutman, and other professionals at the Baltimore City Department of Planning held one of several planned workshops with the community. The workshop was held at Shake & Bake Family Fun Center. Attendees of all ages listened as Hayes explained how the City is preparing for the future and how these workshops will serve as the voice of the people in the process. Related Story: REMINDER: Community Workshop TONIGHT to Discuss Baltimore City Comprehensive Plan Topics (October 17th at 5:30 PM)

Dear Community Leader, You’re Invited: Shape Your City Workshop! This fall, please join the Department of Planning to talk about urban planning and development in the City of Baltimore. We need your ideas and your vision for what gets built where across town. Please also note the full range of Citywide topics on the One Pager attached. Please join us for the West Workshop and share the information attached with your family/friends!  When: Monday, 10/17 from 5:30-7:00 PM Where: 1601 Pennsylvania Avenue (Shake and Bake)  At each workshop, we will be working with you to generate recommendations for priority topics. These…

Register at www.thedivayogi.com Michelle Stafford Wellness, LLC In 2018, thanks to the “here to be” grant from lululemon, and community support, I founded the Be More Yoga Community. We are a grassroots initiative that uses yoga and wellness events to heal the effects that chronic stress and trauma have on the mind and body. We are making yoga accessible to people, particularly in the Baltimore African-American Community. Our classes welcome people from all backgrounds, body types, ages, and genders, no matter their sexual orientation or financial status.

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(NEW JERSEY – October 13, 2022) – A graduation ceremony for a dozen inmates soon to get out of a prison in New Jersey was held at a Bridgeton Halfway house. It’s an eight-week course called Minor Adjustments created by Michael “Mickey” Williams Jr. and his wife, Lernell Apple Williams. The residents all received certificates and bracelets, they took graduation pictures, all while listening to pomp and circumstance playing in the background. This was graduation from one failed attempt at life hopefully into one of success. “We gave them wrist bracelets that read, ‘My Purpose is Greater than my struggles’ and ‘Anywhere but…

By Doni Glover (BALTIMORE – October 13, 2022) – We have not had a community in some time. The pandemic has certainly presented a number of challenges. However, we will be convening this evening at the historic Sharon Baptist Church, located at 1375 N. Stricker Street in our beloved Sandtown Community. Sandtown is a historic West Baltimore community with a rich history and a long track record of contributions and accomplishments that are a great source of pride for the Black community and the city overall. Despite a lot of negative press about Baltimore, Sandtown residents are just as important…

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(BALTIMORE – October 10, 2022) – There is an image of Baltimore that’s being put out there that is coarse. It is harsh and presumptive, even accusatory in certain ways, perpetually vilifying the victims and giving immunity to the real perpetrators who lurk in the shadows with wealthy bank accounts. This is exactly why the upcoming Men Unifying Black Men event on Saturday, November 5, 2022, at 10 am at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center located at 401 N. Howard Street celebrating some outstanding brothers in Baltimore is so on time for it is also a perpetual reminder that despite…

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KBJ sets the record straight. See why Alabama is willingly defending racially-gerrymandered congressional districts to deter Black voters. Howard University Law School. In a keynote on immigration equality, Marc H. Morial broke down the legacy of hostile, racist policies like the Chinese Exclusion Act and dispelled the notion that immigration is only an issue of concern for Latino communities. Read more on President Morial’s keynote. Let’s flatten the curve. Getting vaxxed can protect you from contracting new COVID-19 variants. Here’s how to find vaccine locations near you. The time is now! Getting out the vote is an ALL hands on deck process. Join us…