by Mark Reutter and Fern ShenSep 5, 2020
“In the end, the city just did what they wanted”
The childhood home of Cab Calloway is gone, destroyed today by a wrecking crew despite a citizen appeal filed in Baltimore Circuit Court.
Neighborhoods
Aug 30, 2020
Pushback on parking bill prompts debate about development and diversity
An effort to keep limits on apartment conversions in certain Baltimore neighborhoods, said to be aimed at absentee landlords, is drawing charges of racism.
Aug 15, 2020
Dealt a blow by the pandemic, Duncan Street Miracle Garden hangs on
Could community gardens like this East Baltimore fixture, missing the college volunteers who usually support it, get a little help from a city “victory garden” program?
Special SeriesAug 3, 2020
Hearing officer approves plan to demolish Cab Calloway’s childhood home
Little hope remains to save the bandleader’s one-time residence in West Baltimore. “That door is closed. If another one opens, I will try again,” says his grandson, Peter Brooks.
Jul 14, 2020
Declining homeownership documented, especially among Blacks
Southwest Baltimore saw the most severe drop in owner occupancy since the Great Recession, an Abell Foundation study finds.
Jul 8, 2020
West 8 out as Middle Branch waterfront designer
Community members were demanding a new firm after a blackface photo surfaced.
Older Stories
May 20, 2020
Without an attorney “I would have been homeless”
Mar 30, 2020