Canaries in the Coal Mine
This 6-part blog is about Southern Park Heights, a large, impoverished, African American urban community, which has been neglected for decades. As a result, the community sustains dramatically high rates of vacant houses, unemployment, street violence, drug addiction, incarceration, and HIV. Dr. Beane explores the evidence of neglect as well as the numerous guardian angels, performing artists, teachers, and activists who are committed to equity and revitalization.
“Two Faces” by Alma Roberts
Canaries in the Coal Mine - Part 1
Baltimore is not your run-of-the-mill American tale of two cities in which a white, socially and economically thriving public face contrasts with a minority, impov- erished, and underreported underbelly that shoulders the gamut of problems common to urban poverty. Believe me, there is nothing run-of-the-mill about…