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Front cover of cookbook titled Soul Food
Food+Culture
Exploring Baltimore's Black food scene
Published Feb 7, 2023
Center for Africana Studies sponsors two-day symposium to explore the history and politics of Black food in Baltimore
A group of people sit listening to a speaker
Economic Development
BLocal partners celebrate power of collective impact
Published Jan 12, 2023
Local organizations representing business, academia, medicine, and the nonprofits sector commit to leverage their influence to create economic opportunity in the city
Violinists perform at the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Community
Sounds of the season
Published Dec 7, 2022
Peabody students perform throughout the Baltimore community through partnership with Pratt Library
A group of HopkinsLocal award winners stands before a blue backdrop in front of a red brick wall
Community
Nurturing the commitment to the HopkinsLocal mission
Published Dec 5, 2022
Celebration honored four employees for their efforts to support local economic inclusion and announced HopkinsLocal's expansion into the national capital region
Existential Determinants of Health team photo
Community Safety
Performing arts meet public health in innovative new program
Published Dec 5, 2022
Performance provides a path to healing in the Existential Determinants of Health program, an arts-based approach to substance abuse disorder supported by JHU's Innovation Fund for Community Safety
Glass seal
Public safety
Final MOU sets stage for next phase in JHPD development
Published Dec 2, 2022
The publicly available document incorporates the majority of community feedback and is accompanied by separate reports detailing the university's response to more than 250 comments submitted by the community
Elijah Cummings
Baltimore, D.C. Scholars Program renamed to honor Elijah Cummings
Published Nov 29, 2022
The program provides scholarships to the best and brightest public-school students from Baltimore and Washington
Three people stand in front of the Esperanza Center entrance
Community health
Hopkins-based partnership helps refugees find safety in Maryland
Published Nov 7, 2022
The Johns Hopkins, Esperanza and Loyola Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative provides refugees with trauma-informed care and helps prepare affidavits to include in asylum applications
Poly and Johns Hopkins students look at Baltimore Civil Rights exhibit
History
Students united
Published Nov 7, 2022
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute students and Hopkins undergrads come together to learn about Baltimore's civil rights history
A young girl with a light blue headband tries on a pair of red eyeglasses
Vision for Baltimore
Vision realized
Published Nov 1, 2022
Vision for Baltimore celebrates providing 10,000 pairs of eyeglasses for Baltimore City students