Exciting The Baltimore Banner news: All Baltimore City Public Schools employees and students will soon have a free subscription to The Banner!

The 6 men who died in Baltimore collapse were from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. Classic stories of people who came here & worked hard.

What the country's largest newspaper chain is doing down in Austin should be getting national media attention.

Owls Corner Cafe, where one of the wives of the Key Bridge victims is a cook, is reopening today with heavy hearts and an empty seat. bit.ly/4cJiG0B

personal news:

(apparently people who have known me for a year did not know this lolol)

Divers have recovered the body of another construction worker.

His name was Maynor Suazo Sandoval. The family rose from poverty because of him, his cousin Hector said. He was a pillar of the family and always full of joy.

For The Baltimore Banner:
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“My vow is that we will not rest ... until the cement has dried on the entirety of a new bridge, a new bridge,” President Joe Biden said today, speaking in front of the wreckage of the Key Bridge.
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curu is the epitome of drama queen

.President Biden speaks about the Key Bridge collapse in Dundalk this afternoon surrounded by Governor Wes Moore and others.

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Oh, say can you see? We're talking about Francis Scott Key. Who was he? Why have we named a bridge for thee? Me and Penelope Blackwell explain!

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Journalists clara longo de freitas, 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗, marcsteiner, Maximillian Alvarez, and Mel Buer gathered to share all the different angles of the shocking—and preventable—tragedy in Baltimore.
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‘As long as God gives us strength, we are going to keep working for our community’: Baltimore’s Latino/Latine community responds to Key Bridge crisis

I recorded my first bilingual podcast w/ some amazing Baltimoreans on Friday ❤️✊🏽
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Meet Giuliana Valencia-Banks, the Latina behind a coordinated city/county/state response to the families of the victims (all immigrant, Latino construction workers) of the Key Bridge collapse baltimoresun.com/2024/04/04/fam…

📰 I have a new author page!

I’m excited to announce that I’m the new Business Reporter at the The Baltimore Banner!

As a fan of the publication, I feel incredibly grateful to be joining this team of brilliant journalists.

Stay tuned & support local journalism 🧡

💔A profile of Key Bridge victim José Mynor López by clara longo de freitas

This is one of THE reasons why people voluntarily migrate; because one person can lift an entire family out of extreme poverty. By coming here, his family in Honduras could run a small business and his 12 nieces and nephews could go to school instead of work.

QEPD Maynor.

By clara longo de freitas: Bridge collapse victim José Mynor López moved to US for a better life: tinyurl.com/vutp7dsa (via The Baltimore Banner)

Thank you Emily Richmond and Education Writers Association for having me on EWA Radio to talk about my story on Black teachers in Maryland! Give it a listen:
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