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The Abortion Fund of Maryland prioritizes dignity and empathy for people seeking abortion in Maryland and out of state Nisha Jackson, 33, took a pregnancy test at work in late November of 2025. When the test came back positive, she knew immediately that she would terminate the pregnancy.  She called her boyfriend and…

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🌺Opening Reception: ▪️Date: Saturday Feb 28th ▪️Time: 5PM-9PM ▪️Location: Shanklin Hall @shanklinhall 2325 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20009 🌺 Featuring: ▪️Dee Dwyer Photo Exhibition ▪️Sounds by DJRWEONTHEAIR @rweontheair ▪️Hop Scotch through the entrance ▪️Double Dutch ▪️Merch by The Pack @thepack.world ▪️Old School Cars @sirjoejackjames ▪️Dominoes ▪️Spades ▪️Food + Drinks ▪️Community Resource Hub by @harrietsdreams + @freedcproject

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celebrate the opening of “My People” by
Dee Dwyer, a visual salute to her hometown Washington, D.C. Inspired by Langston Hughes’s poem My People, this exhibition radiates the city’s beauty, authenticity and its bouncebackability. 

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Their wings are SO good

Is this underground pizza?

BPD officer Omar Rodriguez has fatally shot two Baltimore residents in less than a year On the evening of Tuesday, February 24, two Baltimore Police officers, Omar Rodriguez and Arthur Fuog, fired numerous shots at 37-year-old Dwight Hawkins after a short footchase, killing him in the…

BPD officer Omar Rodriguez has fatally shot two Baltimore residents in less than a year
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Baltimore Beat picks: From burgers to crabcakes to desserts, here are some of our favorite dishes Munchies By Madeleine O’Neill Mi Comalito2101 N. Charles Street All of the food at Mi Comalito, a little Salvadoran spot in Charles North, is delicious and worth a visit. But the pupusas are what I…

In town for the CIAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament? Here's our list of some of the city's best dishes. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-be...

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Thanks to everyone who came out to the documentary screening tonight!

The Baltimore Beat experiments with pay-what-you-can ads The newspaper and nonprofit news site Baltimore Beat is rolling out pay-what-you-can ads. "We hope this is a way that small businesses can feature themselves in the paper, keeping their services at t...

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They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Semafor Keeps Hosting “Restoring Trust In News” Events Stocked With Known Right Wing Bullshitters Back in 2022, former New York Times reporter Ben Smith and friends launched a new media company named Semafor on the back of $25 million in donations. You might recall that one of th…

last year's Semafor "restoring trust in news" included names like overt white supremacist Megyn Kelly (who of course didn't have to answer any questions about her racism or her overt destruction of trust in news) and Fox News heavy hitter Bret Baier

Ben Smith’s New Media Venture Ably Demonstrates Why Platforming Authoritarian Propagandists Is A Lose-Lose Scenario Former Buzzfeed and New York Times reporter Ben Smith is poised to launch a new media company named Semafor on the back of $25 million in donations. To grab some attention for the venture’s l…

in fact, one of the VERY FIRST THINGS Semafor did after getting $25 million in seed money was to host a "restoring trust in news" conference where they platformed Tucker Carlson as a serious journalist

Ben Smith peppered him with softballs on a weird video stream from his Hamptons closet

Brunchlord is a great and accurate word

And always, the tarotscopes

Not the outlet that platforms Steve Bannon

I wrote this ^_^

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Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 2/25/26 - 3/11/26 Wednesday, February 25 Kentucky Nights – A Bourbon Tasting: A bourbon tasting to benefit Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital. Sample fine bourbons, enjoy hors d’oeuvres, and meet fellow enthusiasts at t...

Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 2/25/26 - 3/11/26

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‘Love Beats Rhymes’ is a strange time capsule In the summer of 2015 when RZA wrapped filming “Coco,” it had only been two weeks since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator to announce his intentions to run for president of the United State...

RZA-directed ‘Love Beats Rhymes’ is a strange time capsule

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March 2026 Tarotscopes Air Signs – Aquarius, Gemini, Libra Three of Swords rx + Two of Wands + The Hermit  Air signs, this month the promise of spring feels like the light you’ve been waiting for. If things have been stuck ...

March 2026 Tarotscopes

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What’s Poppin’ Issue #078 “3 Generations Top” at the Lunar New Year: Artists Market at Vollmer Center at Cylburn Arboretum, 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, through February 28. Cylburn.org The garment — with a pa...

What’s Poppin’ Issue #078

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February Night Lights February started off with a fantastic two-band lineup at Creative Alliance featuring Micah E. Wood and Landis Harry Larry.  Micah E. Wood is a multi-talented artist and musician, who performed with a ...

February Night Lights

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Black urban romance deserves to be taken seriously In 2025, Sweet Nothings Book Co. opened as Baltimore’s first romance-only bookstore. It’s truly a romance book lover’s dream — it’s cozy and welcoming, clearly created with readers in mind. The shelve...

Black urban romance deserves to be taken seriously

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The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration honors the epic lives of working-class Black folks In September 2024, I sat at Mera Kitchen across from two friends, both musicians, visiting from Philadelphia. As we ate, I gushed about the play I’d just finished reading: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”...

The Baltimore August Wilson Celebration honors the epic lives of working-class Black folks

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Some of the many events happening during AWP 2026 The Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual Conference & Bookfair — known simply as “AWP” — descends on a different city every year. It brings upwards of 10,000 writers and poets to town, eno...

Some of the many events happening during AWP 2026

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Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...

Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city

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Our community resources page is included in every issue of Baltimore Beat and is constantly updated.

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Baltimore Government and Community Events 2/25/26 - 3/11/26 Wednesday, February 25 Conversations & Cinemas: A screening of the film “Becoming Marshall,” which explores the life and legacy of the Supreme Court’s first African American justice. Following the fil...

Connect with folks in the community in our Government and Community Events Calendar.

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‘A teaching tool for safety, for survival, for justice’: How Baltimore artists are using zines to organize On an early morning in September, federal immigration agents knocked on the door of Baltimore resident M.T., looking for someone who did not live there. Instead of opening the door for ICE, another re...

‘A teaching tool for safety, for survival, for justice’: How Baltimore artists are using zines to organize

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Letter from the publisher - Issue 78 This city has always been a literary one. Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and W.E.B. Du Bois all called Baltimore home at one time or another. This is also the city that gave us contemporary b...

“This city has always been a literary one,” writes CEO and publisher Lisa Snowden.

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