Baltimore City Public Schools is shifting 57 schools to virtual learning Monday, 55 of them due to a surge in positive tests for COVID-19 among students and staff. These are the schools.
Baltimore City Public Schools is shifting 57 schools to virtual learning Monday, 55 of them due to a surge in positive tests for COVID-19 among students and staff. These are the schools.
COURTESY OF ELIZABETH BARBUSH
Gresham stands before boarded-up homes that EBDI promised to renovate. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
“There were many opportunities to do the right thing, to make a difference for those families whose lives will never be the same. The pain and the horror of the whole process, of being relocated and displaced, of gentrified community you can’t imagine the pain that goes through your mind.”
These are the words of Donald Gresham, who is president of the Baltimore Redevelopment Action Coalition for Empowerment (BRACE), a nonprofit that aims to promote economic and racial equity in the city, particularly for the former and remaining residents of the Middle East neighborhood.