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Baltimore is full of women who show up and change the world Monalisa Diallo “I’ve always been a person that felt like I’m not allowed to complain unless I’m helping or coming up with something better.” Advocate and grandmother Monalisa Diallo lets this belief…

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The beauty of art and intergenerational connection in Baltimore “It’s like all the grant and fellowship applications dry up after 30,” my dear friend says to me as I chop onions and garlic. We’re on the phone regaling each other with the happenings of the day, as ...

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In memory of Logan Hullinger Logan Hullinger, founder of news blog Mobtown Redux and one of Baltimore Beat’s most dedicated contributors, passed away unexpectedly on March 6. He would have turned 30 on March 10, 2026.  Logan was ...

We remember our friend and colleague Logan Hullinger

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What’s Poppin’ Issue #079 Deferred No More: Advancing Reparations in Maryland, Lovely Lane Church, 2200 Saint Paul Street, March 11, 7 p.m. krieger.jhu.edu/chloe There’s a lot of spinelessness among our political class, but la...

What’s Poppin’ Issue #079

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The beauty of art and intergenerational connection in Baltimore “It’s like all the grant and fellowship applications dry up after 30,” my dear friend says to me as I chop onions and garlic. We’re on the phone regaling each other with the happenings of the day, as ...

The beauty of art and intergenerational connection in Baltimore

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OP-ED: Shared mobility options like scooters and bikes are a growing transportation solution in the Black Butterfly At Bikemore, we believe a great city is a connected city. One where the amenities — and the opportunities — are for everyone. Too often, amenities for residents don’t meet that bar. So when rental sco...

OP-ED: Shared mobility options like scooters and bikes are a growing transportation solution in the Black Butterfly

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Photostory: Family and friends gather to call for justice for Dwight Hawkins, who was shot by Baltimore police On the afternoon of Friday, February 28, several dozen people gathered at the corner of Pelham Avenue and Belair Road where, three days earlier, police shot and killed Dwight Hawkins in front of his g...

Photostory: Family and friends gather to call for justice for Dwight Hawkins, who was shot by Baltimore police

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Baltimore Arts and Culture Events 3/11/26 - 3/25/26 Wednesday, March 11 Paint And Sip @ The Wine Collective: Hosted by She Knows The Deal, this lightly guided class provides the chance to unwind and make art. All supplies included, along with your firs...

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

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Baltimore Government and Community Events 3/11/26 - 3/25/26 Wednesday, March 11 Blood Pressure Awareness in Our Community: A roundtable discussion with support and resource sharing for those living with or at risk for hypertension. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Enoch...

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

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‘Saving Etting Street’ offers an inspiring look inside a vital Baltimore organization As a millennial, this critic has long considered even the abstract concept of home ownership to be analogous to acquiring the gift of flight through the use of a jetpack. To this generation, and the o...

‘Saving Etting Street’ offers an inspiring look inside a vital Baltimore organization

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Chefs Jasmine Norton and Catina Smith want to honor the matriarchs in their families by paying homage to the cooking traditions they were raised in Most days, Jasmine Norton’s mother accompanies her in the kitchen at The Urban Oyster, the nation’s only Black woman-owned oyster bar that sits in a beautiful brick-and-mortar space on W. 36th Street....

Chefs Jasmine Norton and Catina Smith want to honor the matriarchs in their families by paying homage to the cooking traditions they were raised in

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Tené Wilder’s career is a testament of faith and family When I meet Tené Wilder at Mama Koko’s, the bustling midtown cafe and restaurant tucked inside Hooper House on E. 23rd Street, she is smiling from ear to ear. Her curly hair is styled in a shoulder-le...

Tené Wilder talks about her work as key hairstylist on Ryan Coogler’s Academy-Awards nominated “Sinners.”

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Baltimore is full of women who show up and change the world Monalisa Diallo “I’ve always been a person that felt like I’m not allowed to complain unless I’m helping or coming up with something better.” Advocate and grandmother Monalisa Diallo lets this belief ...

We profile women leaders in Baltimore, including Monalisa Diallo, Stefanie Mavronis, and Iya Dammons.

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Righting the past and forging worthy futures In 2024, while visiting AFRO Charities’ processing team at the Maryland State Archives, lead archivist Megan McShea told me about their effort to process the entire collection before moving to their p...

“In Baltimore and beyond, women are challenging oppressive systems, readying their communities, and forging new futures built on lessons they’ve learned from the past,” Bry Reed writes.

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Issue 79 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our Women’s History Month issue! Our cover photo, of Jacqueline Caldwell, was taken by Shae McCoy. baltimorebeat.com

‘Saving Etting Street’ offers an inspiring look inside a vital Baltimore organization As a millennial, this critic has long considered even the abstract concept of home ownership to be analogous to acquiring the gift of flight through the use of a jetpack. To this generation, and the o...

My latest for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social , a look at Saving Etting Street, the documentary about Black Women Build - Baltimore. It’ll be must see when it screens during @mdffparkway.bsky.social on April 9th.

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Logan Hullinger left behind a mountain of writing about drug prohibition and harm reduction in Baltimore.

To memorialize Logan, I put together this thread highlighting 10 articles he wrote for Mobtown Redux, @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, and Scalawag.
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Ivan “TVs Biddy” Baker is carrying on a legacy of Black entrepreneurship In the middle of the 500 block of N. Chester Street in East Baltimore, half a block away from Northeast Market, sits Biddy’s TVs. The area has seen lots of changes since 2001 when Johns Hopkins…

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Logan’s work at @baltimorebeat.bsky.social was deeply impactful and necessary. His clear-eyed focus on drug user liberation and harm reduction was exemplary and beautifully human. His death is a huge loss for movement journalism and for anyone who met him.

We owe him our continued effort.

It was clear that Logan's work was very important to him and to a wider audience. I am grateful that we got to know him a little bit at our Movement Media Alliance convening. He started working on pieces for Prism, @truthout.org , and was working with Scalawag and @objectivejournos.bsky.social

In memory of Logan Hullinger Logan Hullinger, founder of news blog Mobtown Redux and one of Baltimore Beat’s most dedicated contributors, passed away unexpectedly on March 6. He would have turned 30 on March 10, 2026.  Logan was ...

This weekend @prismreports.org and our friends at the Movement Media Alliance learned that journalist Logan Hullinger died of an overdose. Logan was very open about his struggle and would have wanted people to know what happened. baltimorebeat.com/in-memory-of...

In memory of Logan Hullinger Logan Hullinger, founder of news blog Mobtown Redux and one of Baltimore Beat’s most dedicated contributors, passed away unexpectedly on March 6. He would have turned 30 on March 10, 2026.  Logan was…

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‘Remember me as you saw me’: Ursula Ricks, a Baltimore blues gem, insists The blues was all Ursula Ricks had the first time she sang at the now-defunct Full Moon Saloon in Fells Point.  “It’s the blues. It’s emotion music, and everybody in the room has emotion, so nobody’s…

‘Remember me as you saw me’: Ursula Ricks, a Baltimore blues gem, insists baltimorebeat.com/remember-me-...

Charm City Classics: Remembering the places that brought working-class Baltimoreans together Baltimore natives might have noticed the recent rise in coverage by national publications like Bon Appétit and visits from foodies across the East Coast, shining a spotlight on some hometown…

Charm City Classics: Remembering the places that brought working-class Baltimoreans together baltimorebeat.com/charm-city-c...

The old and new come together in community theater at Arena Players As I watched the Arena Players dance ensemble move across the stage during rehearsal for their production of Lee Breuer’s “The Gospel at Colonus,” I never would have guessed that two of its members…

Community theaters like Arena Players facilitate community building, providing people with space to try new and brave things, to further develop their sense of self, and to step out of their comfort zones. baltimorebeat.com/the-old-and-...

The life of Baltimore’s midnight ballerinas Successfully selling the fantasy of sex is at once performance art and business transaction: getting into character, being embodied and still responsive to the audience, making deals and keeping…

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