Founded by three Georgetown football teammates, the Washington, D.C.-based organization enters its second decade prepared to deepen its impact in Southwest D.C. and expand its place-based model globally. WASHINGTON, D.C. — GOODProjects is celebrating its tenth anniversary, marking a decade of work alongside youth and families to address the interconnected challenges of race, poverty, community violence, educational inequity, and limited economic opportunity.  GOODProjects began in 2016 on the campus of Georgetown University through the vision of Darius Baxter and two of ...Read More

Standing under the lights during "Baltimore Unfiltered: Let's Talk About Sex," a show The Short Kuts Show curated last year for RnD Associates to open a community conversation around sexual health, I understood something no audience seat could have taught me. I was not performing. I was handing a piece of myself to a room full of strangers and trusting them to hold it gently. That night, I became part of a small, fiercely loyal family, The Short Kuts Show calls "story sharers." On Saturday, July 25, that family — and ten years of the stories it has carried — will fill Baltimore&rsq...Read More

Free Passes Available at Libraries for Checkout   Annapolis, MD - Officials from Anne Arundel County Public Library  (AACPL) and Anne Arundel County Department of Recreation and Parks today announced the launch of a new partnership that expands access to the county's parks. Beginning today, residents with an AACPL library card can check out a county park pass for free admission for up to seven days.  The new county park pass provides free daytime general admission for one private, non commercial vehicle carrying less than 12 people at any of Anne Arundel Coun...Read More

New Undergraduate Program and Interdisciplinary Risk Management Course Expand Career-Ready Offerings Aligned With the Future of Work and the Demands of an AI-Driven Economy BALTIMORE — Recognizing that artificial intelligence is rapidly redefining industries, occupations and the skills employers demand, Morgan State University is transforming its academic offerings to prepare graduates for the next generation of innovation. This fall, the University launches its new Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence. Offered by the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Scie...Read More

The well being of a typical city are often measured by infrastructure, budgets, and statistics. A more tried and truer to scale measurement would be the opportunities that are provided to the everyday resident of said cities. That idea lives inside Baltimore's Mayor's Office of African American Male Engagement, better known as MOAAME. The program is built on a simple but ambitious belief: when young Black men are surrounded by mentorship, opportunity and expectation, they can outlive the generational stigma of the old generation. MOAAME does not promise shortcuts. Instead...Read More

Five years ago, when I published Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, I thought I was writing about food addiction, obesity, and how I finally kept the weight off after more than forty years of struggle.  I was wrong. The deeper story was about hope. About transformation. About finding my voice, telling the truth, and reclaiming my power. Those themes don’t belong to any single audience. They resonate with executives, educators, healthcare workers, faith leaders, entrepreneurs, parents, caregivers — and, perhaps most vividly, with artists. ...Read More