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The Best Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth Around Baltimore This Week
From food and film screenings to block parties and Black-owned vendor markets—plus the city’s annual AFRAM festival—here's how to commemorate the holiday.
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When Baltimore Burned
Fifty years ago this month, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. set off an upheaval in the city unlike anything since the Civil War.
News & Community
Born This Way
Faced with discrimination and sometimes outright hostility, the Maryland transgender community perserveres, pioneering civil rights breakthroughs.
History & Politics
Forward Press
As a Vietnam vet, former Black Panther, and father of a literary superstar, Paul Coates has lived a life reminiscent of the great literature he publishes.
The Chatter
A Citywide Day of Service to Replace MLK Day Parade
Residents are encouraged to volunteer to celebrate the holiday.
History & Politics
Justice For All
On the anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s Supreme Court confirmation, Baltimore’s great dismantler of Jim Crow remains a colossus of U.S. history.
