Hello 🫶🏾 Here with a #journorequest

If your Black church or if you
know of a Black church in the Baltimore region having a Souls to Polls event,
please DM me. I just the need the church name and address.

'I don’t want to have my prime in high school. It’s been a part of our lives since we’ve been young — it doesn’t feel right not doing it.”

On Rocksann Smith, City's star centerfielder who hopes to become one of the few women playing college baseball: thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/high-sc…

Between 2015 and 2023, unaccompanied migrant children were sent to Maryland at the highest rate in the U.S. No other state was even close.

Data obtained and made available by The New York Times thebaltimorebanner.com/maryland/maryl…

April in Baltimore concluded with 10 homicide victims, the second-fewest ever recorded here in the month of April. Homicides are down 33% from this time last year and 47% from this time in 2022

My colleagues and I work just as hard, as honestly, and in the same good faith to bring information and transparency to Baltimore and the state as we did before we were sold.

Scott campaign sources say Thiru & Scott met to discuss an endorsement. 'We were told if the mayor considered making Thiru police commissioner or CEO of city schools, that Thiru would be open to endorsing us.'

Thiru did not confirm or deny this: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Just saying

🧵The student publications are truly doing some of the best journalism out there. Follow/read/listen/support:
-NYC : WKCR-FM NY, Columbia Daily Spectator, Washington Square News,
-Boston: The Berkeley Beacon, The Tufts Daily
-CA: Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media, Daily Bruin, The Daily Californian, The Lumberjack

Thiru drops out, endorses Sheila Dixon for mayor in a move that may dramatically impact May 14 primary thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Starting soon: We'll be co-hosting a mayoral debate with Brandon M. Scott, Sheila Dixon, wallaceforbaltimore2024 and Thiru Vignarajah.

We'll be sharing live updates right here, starting at 12:30pm.

🎙️ You can tune in live on WYPR at 12:30pm
📺 And catch it on WJZ | CBS Baltimore at 7:00pm

A new series from yours truly: We'll follow GrahamMotion as he trains one of his horses for a race around the Preakness Stakes.

Part one looks at the regimented schedule needed to train dozens of thoroughbreds each day: thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/horse-r…

The latest installment of The Associated Press investigations into deaths in encounters with police who are using tactics that are supposed to be less lethal. Today's investigation documents the use of powerful sedatives. by Ryan J. Foley
Carla K. Johnson and Shelby Lum bit.ly/3xVxObl

Very normal things happening in the r/Virginia subreddit this week

NEW w/emily sullivan: Residents and fellows at UMMC are the first physicians in Maryland to unionize #1u
thebaltimorebanner.com/community/publ…

The
The Baltimore Banner
VOTER GUIDE is HERE. NO PAYWALL, so please take a few minutes to educate yourself on who is who. It has everything you need to know to cast your ballot in the May 14th primary election.

thebaltimorebanner.com/voter-guide-20…

So honored to be a Livingston Award finalist for my work The Baltimore Banner.

As a young investigative reporter, few other outlets would've trusted me to take these chances. But, The Banner did.

wallacehouse.umich.edu/announcing-the…

As it turns out, figuring out who paid for what in the wake of a decades-old bridge collapse is no easy task. Daniel Zawodny and I spent several days digging into six tragedies reminiscent of the Key Bridge's ship-strike in search of who footed the bills.
thebaltimorebanner.com/community/tran…

Today, #SCOTUS will hear a case that could severely criminalize homelessness.

Formerly incarcerated people are almost 10 times more likely to be homeless than the general public – and this ruling could devastate an already vulnerable population. 🧵

At a recent news conference, Baltimore State's Attorney Ivan Bates - Baltimore City State's Attorney said he had a message for parents and guardians: 'Parental accountability.”

But it's complicated. And others believe that parents need help — not prosecution: tinyurl.com/yc83nrjm (via The Baltimore Banner)

In February, Lee Sanderlin & I wrote about the rise of unserialized firearms in Baltimore.

Ghost guns had higher magazine capacities on average and represented 1 in 5 guns recovered by police since mid-2021.

Learn more ahead of the Supreme Court case:

thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…