It’s common knowledge among journalists that Alden Global Capital is one of the most ruthless profit-driven newspaper conglomerates, and any newspaper purchased by the hedge fund faces severe downsizing. In Baltimore, Alden was responsible for gutting the Baltimore...
Residents of Curtis Bay, an industrial neighborhood in South Baltimore, were shaken by yet another explosion last week, which reportedly shook windows and doors. Only two years ago, an explosion at the coal terminal in the neighborhood blew out windows and traumatized...
In July of 2022, a group of Black teens was washing windshields, known as “squeegeeing,” at a busy downtown Baltimore intersection. A 48-year-old white man got out of his car and threatened the youths with a baseball bat, swinging the bat at at least one of them. One...
The December 2021 explosion at the CSX coal pier in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore, along with ongoing toxic pollution, has prompted immense public outcry against the company’s executives, including numerous protests, city hearings, and a community-led...
Across the Patapsco River from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tourist district lie the former neighborhoods of Fairfield and Wagner’s Point. Throughout the 20th century, these tight-knit immigrant and Black communities were a target for the development of chemical and...
