Baltimore

Location of the Facility The Albin O. Kuhn Library (AOK) and Gallery can be found on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). UMBC, an honors college, is located at 1000 Hilltop Circle in Baltimore County, mostly in the community of Catonsville. Spanning across over 500 acres of land, UMBC is three miles outside the Baltimore City limits and is surrounded by BWI Airport, Amtrak train station, bus lines, business, restaurants and other conveniences. The library is…

Destroying someone else’s property and vandalizing someone’s neighborhood—your neighborhood— for no reason is never acceptable. But the property destruction in Baltimore wasn’t without a just reason. Every couple of years (now it’s more like every couple of months) an incident will happen where an African American is abused, beaten, or killed by a police officer—more specifically by a white officer. The African American population becomes angry and protest the injustice that Blacks go through…

Baltimore: A Conversation “So there’s a voice inside you. Maybe just a whisper of a voice. That wants to try to do right and it’s frightening. It’s difficult. But it exists.” The Dean of the university in Kirsten Greenidge’s Baltimore gives the feelings I have all the time on the fourth of October showing. Overall, race issue is a key topic to the unification or division of this country. The premise of this production declares that ignorance leads to a demanding path of recovery. Regardless of…

“4 Tips When Traveling Through Downtown Baltimore City” When asked, “Why are you traveling into Downtown Baltimore City?” most people respond, “Because I will be attending an event Downtown.” That’s a great way to ask for advice when trying to find the safety and fastest way in and out of the City of Baltimore. But to plan a successful travel into the City of Baltimore requires a skill-set that encompasses much more than having an impressive list of directions to and from the event. Here are…

Baltimore has risen in mayhem taking after the demise of Freddie Gray, who passed away on April 19th because an extreme spinal cord damage that occurred while in police authority. But before we get into why exactly this happened, let’s get into the background of police brutality and exactly how long it’s been going on. Police brutality has been going on since the beginning of the police force, regardless of race, since before when it was only just the Europeans the thought of power above the law…

When you rent a bus to visit Maryland, you have to spend time in Baltimore. It's the largest city in the state and is full of historic sites for those who are interested in visiting the location of many important events. It's also the biggest independent city in the entire country since it's not part of any county. Museums and Historic Sites Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine If you've ever wanted to experience the history of our country from its earliest days, you can visit…

situations. In beautiful Baltimore, Maryland on April 19, 2015 a 25-year-old black man died in police custody one week after being arrested. Freddie Gray’s death was ruled to be a homicide and the six officers who were involved had legal charges issued. The charges were not high enough for the people to be satisfied and this caused several protests following his funeral. These protests quickly erupted into riots as the word of Freddie Gray’s death traveled all throughout Baltimore and eventually…

The play that I will be writing about is Baltimore. The play was written by Kirsten Greenidge. The play that I attended was on Tuesday, April 4th at the Henry Heymann Theater on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus and was directed by Ricardo Vila-Roger. The play is about how a new resident advisor deals is modern day racism at her University. She is a strong-willed woman that wishes to believe that racism no longer exists in America and has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that racism…

groups donate more to non-UMC causes than they have in unpaid apportionments even as the conference’s amount apportioned decreases relative to the conference income. • Baltimore-Washington ranks 10th in persons served in the community • Attendance in Baltimore-Washington, in comparison to other conferences, this is strong as Baltimore-Washington has 9 more weekly attendees per church than the average UMC church. • Attracting new members has remained fairly constant around 8 attendees per new…

household with a single mother in her teens, in Baltimore City, my childhood consisted of constantly remaining observant to the many things in my environment that my mother attempted to shield me from. Automatically when people hear the word Baltimore, they think of the hit TV series The Wire or the Corner; television shows that shed light on the large number of crimes and drugs that take place in the city. From that series people think that Baltimore is an extremely unsafe place to live and…