James Craigen Sr. is hoping that maybe, finally, just possibly, the stars are aligning and in the coming months and years we may begin to see a serious effort in the country, and particularly in Baltimore, to tackle the very old roadblocks that have kept the city divided and so many Black Baltimoreans in poverty.
When she moved to Baltimore in 1995, Luz Damron probably was ill-prepared for the rough-and-tumble ways of central west Baltimore.
Dr. Hubert Taylor Gurley II, medical director of Health Care for the Homeless and a longtime resident of Bolton Hill, died of complications of COVID-19 Jan. 30.
Jim is a balding, audaciously gay scholar in his mid-60s who lives on a quiet street in an 1850s brick townhouse in Bolton Hill.
In these complicated COVID times, many have lost jobs or are hanging on to their businesses in a harrowing way. But for a fortunate few like David Storey, it has been something of a boon.
Walter Sondheim, who died in 2007 at the age of 98, was a Bolton Hill native (1612 Bolton Street) and a Baltimore civic leader extraordinaire.
Leon Fleisher, a leading American pianist in the 1950s and early ’60s who was forced by an injury to his right hand to channel his career into conducting, teaching and mastering the left-hand repertoire, died in August at a nearby hospice.
