Water Emergency in Baltimore

Water Emergency in Baltimore

Positive samples of E. coli in drinking water were detected beginning on Friday, September 2 in Baltimore’s Harlem Park/Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, an overwhelmingly Black area with some of the city’s highest rates of poverty. The first public announcement was...
Baltimore Squeegee Workers: Whose Streets?

Baltimore Squeegee Workers: Whose Streets?

On Thursday, July 7, a group of squeegee workers were doing their thing, offering to wash windshields for tips from drivers, at a busy downtown intersection by Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. A motorist, a white man with a master’s degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins...
Johns Hopkins Students Fight Sexual Assault

Johns Hopkins Students Fight Sexual Assault

This past Monday, approximately 150 students took part in a protest at Johns Hopkins University in response to the University’s failure to properly prevent and respond to sexual assaults on campus. The protest was sparked by an alleged intentional drugging at the...