Black poverty in Baltimore has racial causes that are invisible to most people. Dickens would understand.
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Why Baltimore Blacks Are Down and Out
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What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
Langston Hughes puts his finger on Baltimore’s black anger in “Justice” and “Harlem.”
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Protesting Baltimore’s Racial Divide
The racial divide we are currently seeing in Baltimore was noted by Countee Cullen in 1925.
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