Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Details Significant Gains in Crime Reduction, Investment, Tourism, and Workforce in 2025 State of Downtown Report
Annual report on the health of Downtown Baltimore highlights a strengthening urban core, record entertainment attendance, growing residential base, and an accelerating pipeline of private investment. BALTIMORE, MD — The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore today released its much-anticipated 2025 State of Downtown Report, a comprehensive assessment of Downtown Baltimore’s economic health, quality of life, and economic development activity.…
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Ravens, Under Armour Expand Girls Flag Football Initiative Across Maryland
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ravens are doubling down on their commitment to equity in athletics, announcing a major expansion of their girls high school flag football initiative in partnership with Under Armour and two additional school systems across the state. Now entering its fourth year, the program will welcome Baltimore County Public Schools and St.…
Local Therapist and Author Leslie J. Sherrod to Launch Mother’s Day Book “Work It, Momma!”
BALTIMORE — A new book aimed at empowering mothers to embrace both entrepreneurship and purpose is set to debut just ahead of Mother’s Day, as Baltimore-based therapist and author Leslie J. Sherrod prepares to launch Work It, Momma!: Five Biblical Principles for the Budding Mompreneur. Sherrod, a licensed clinical social worker, speaker, and entrepreneur, will…
Think In Terms of Decades
In his book, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change, John Lewis shares, “Ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each…
Three-day Cultural Tour Honors 50th anniversary of Alex Haley’s ‘Roots’
The late author Alex Haley’s book, “Roots: The Saga of an American Family,” is turning 50. Roots,” published on August 17, 1976, highlighted the story of Kunta Kinte, a young man who was kidnapped in the Gambia, enslaved, and brought to America. Kunta Kinte Celebrations Inc., an Annapolis-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to honoring the perseverance…
