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Baltimore Women's March briefly becomes @Beyonce dance party

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Issue 1 of Baltimore Beat is live today! We start with a letter from the editor: “I hope that Baltimore Beat is a place that challenges and informs this city,” writes @lisamccray .

Letter from the Editor

This issue of Baltimore Beat marks a new phase in a project that began six years ago. Back in November 2017, I began Baltimore Beat to continue the work of the now-defunct Baltimore City Paper. With...

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And we’re back!

Alt-Newspaper ‘Baltimore Beat’ Set for Summer Return

With new funding, former alt-weekly plans July re-launch as Black-led, bi-monthly print publication and website.

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Baltimore! Our newspaper box is on the street. At @OpenWorksBmore on the Greenmount Ave, side of the building. Come by and pick up a paper. Beat director of operations @notrivia will be placing some supplies for those in need and more in the community exchange top of the box.

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Issue 27 of Baltimore Beat is live. Our cover is a photo of rapper @HEYMISSKAM shot by Philip Muriel.

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Please join us to celebrate the launch of the new Baltimore Beat, a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online outlet. Friday, August 12th from 6-10pm. Sounds by Jayswann Grilled food by Shorty Davis!

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Issue 33 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is courtesy Casey McKeel, of Rebel Lens.

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Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online media outlet for all of Baltimore, but we believe that those who have been underserved, ignored, or shut out by most news deserve special consideration.

Support our publication

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Issue 35 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is artwork made by a person incarcerated at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women as part of the Prison Art Program.

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This week you'll see 10 new Baltimore Beat newspaper boxes around the city! They are a home for our bi-weekly newspaper and also have a community exchange built-in.

Beat Boxes

What’s a Beat Box? Beat Boxes look like this, and we currently have eleven locations throughout the city. They are a home for our bi-weekly newspaper and also have a community exchange built-in....

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Our cover! You can find copies of Baltimore Beat around the city starting at around 11 a.m.

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Today marks nine years since Freddie Gray’s death. To honor his life, we are sharing this poem, written by writer Gerard Johnson, a participant at the Writers in Baltimore Schools, and first published in 2020.

Keeping Freddie dead?

5 years later reflecting on Curtis Mayfield and Freddie Gray “Everybody’s misused him Ripped him up and abused him Freddie’s dead” Another Freddie is dead. 5 years ago there was confusion. Why were...

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Baltimore is a majority Black city with a significant digital divide—over 40% of the city’s residents do not have internet access at home—making accessible print journalism a necessity.

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From 1910 to 1970, more than six million Black Americans fled the American South to escape racist violence and the social, cultural, and economic oppression of Jim Crow.

The story of the Great Migration comes to the Baltimore Museum of Art

A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration features the work of Akea Brionne, Mark Bradford, Zoë Charlton, Larry W. Cook, Torkwase Dyson, Theaster Gates Jr., Allison Janae...

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Issue 32 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is an illustration from @egallagher_art .

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Born and raised in West Baltimore, Shae McCoy is a photojournalist, author of the book “West Baltimore Ruins,” and an urban farmer.

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Issue 2 of Baltimore Beat is live today!

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Black-led, Black controlled nonprofit newspaper Baltimore Beat is pleased to announce that noted Baltimore artist and photographer @ovoschaun will join the Beat as Director Of Photography.

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It is true the Beat will return in 2019 😳😳😳😳😳

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Looks like an announcement got scooped?

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The Beat's @notrivia filled the "community exchange" part of our newspaper box outside @OpenWorksBmore . Thank you to @sleepyknave for donating masks and @BmoreHRC for providing Naloxone. Also: books, hand soap, and some shirts inside. And of course: Issue 001 of the Beat!

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"University of Baltimore graduates turn their backs to commencement speaker Betsy DeVos"

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“I just feel like Baltimore’s like an underrated foodie city. I think the landscape is big enough for a chicken box to exist alongside French-style rotisserie chicken,” says Amanda Burton.

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March 6, 2019, one year to the day we closed. @notrivia was able to get ownership of the Beat after months of negotiation; @LisaMcCray will be EIC of course

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Issue Four of Baltimore Beat is live!

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It’s Baltimore Beat Wednesday! Issue 15 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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The cover of the first issue of the Beat, out Wednesday. Our EIC @LisaMcCray talks to Baltimore Ceasefire's Erricka Bridgeford with photos by @byDVNLLN

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In what's best described as a pre-Thanksgiving news dump, Baltimore Police reveal slain detective was set to testify against crooked cops and Sgt. Alicia White's administrative charges dropped

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Black cowboys and cowgirls, dressed in their finest, competed for prizes and gathered to maintain, honor, and reclaim Black western culture.

Black Cowboys Bring Western Styles To Maryland

Bill Pickett, born in 1870 in Travis County, Texas, is perhaps the most famous Black cowboy and was one of the first Black cowhands in rodeo. He was the inventor of “bulldogging.” This technique of...

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Issue 20 of Baltimore Beat is live. For this issue, collage artist @jtknoxroxs created this image to honor the life of Donnell Rochester. Rochester was shot and killed by Baltimore Police Officer Connor Murray during a traffic stop, from which he tried to flee.

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Issue 36 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a quilt by late artist Elizabeth Talford Scott, titled “Another Time.”

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Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online media outlet for all of Baltimore, but we believe that those who have been underserved, ignored, or shut out by most news deserve special consideration.

Support our publication

Support quality journalism by joining us today!

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Issue 25 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a piece of artwork created by artist Larry “Poncho” Brown titled “Of Queens.” Photo by Aisha Butler. Courtesy of Davenport Imports & Arts.

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Issue 16 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Issue 22 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a piece of artwork from artist Akea Brionne, titled “Timekeeper.”

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We believe that ultra-wealthy owners and funders shouldn’t get to decide what the news is and who gets to report it.

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MADE IN BALTIMORE: André De Shields, 77, is striking. He has brown skin, chiseled cheekbones, and a perfectly sculpted afro streaked with white, gray, and black.

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“I left Baltimore in 1964,” De Shields said. “It’s always been essential to what I do in my life and in my career that people understand that I am who I am because I was made in Baltimore.”

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Issue 30 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover photo is a photograph of Darryl Collins, owner of Hopscotch, a zero-proof bottle shop. It was shot by Philip Muriel. It’s our gift guide issue!🎁

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Issue five of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Issue 3 of Baltimore Beat is live today!

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It’s Baltimore Beat Wednesday! Issue 14 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Issue 29 of Baltimore Beat is live. Our cover photo is a photograph of people at an Oct. 20 protest in Baltimore, taken by @mylesmichelin .

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“I came because I'm tired of looking at cracked paint on the walls and broken chairs, broken tables,” said Shakerra McDonald.

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Issue seven of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Issue 17 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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In Baltimore City, there are notable Black cannabis changemakers who are cultivating space for other Black folks to take up real estate in the industry.

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Baltimore Beat's Patreon is now live. If you like our work and have 5 dollars or more a month to spare, we would love your support:

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Issue six of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Media representations communicate lies and misinformation about Black people in cities across the United States, such as the criminalization of Black youth gathering in public spaces.

Confronting Lies: Controlling Our Narratives

Join us for a conversation with journalists Lisa Snowden (Baltimore Beat), Cierra Hinton (Scalawag), and Tonia Hill (The TRiiBE).

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Issue 24 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover of singer, songwriter, DJ, and producer Ultra Naté was shot by Director of Photography @_ovoschaun .”

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Issue 21 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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Solidarity with all of the LA Weekly folks just egregiously fired, alternative press and advocacy journalism is vital we need it

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Lightning in a Bottle: @halleteri on how Baltimore’s punk scene makes room for joy, pain, anger, and ambition.

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Issue 12 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our Sex and Love Issue.

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“This is a Black newspaper,” Snowden-McCray says. “I know we have Black newspapers here, like The Afro, but it does Black people a disservice to say we only get a few. The more that there are, the better."

Alt-Newspaper ‘Baltimore Beat’ Set for Summer Return

With new funding, former alt-weekly plans July re-launch as Black-led, bi-monthly print publication and website.

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Statement to our readers:

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Issue 37 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a picture of rapper, producer, and actor Tim Trees. The photo was shot by @Juneclues .

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Congratulations to #BaltimoreCeaseFire organizers and participants.

Formerly known as Baltimore Ceasefire 365

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Baltimoreans called for zero murders, and Baltimore DID IT! There is much more work to be done.…

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Baltimore Beat is publishing photos from participants in Wide Angle Youth Media, which offers media arts education and amplifies the voices of Baltimore youth.

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Public art is essential, especially when art displayed in galleries can often feel inaccessible and uninviting.

Art Outside

Public art is essential, especially when art displayed in galleries can often feel inaccessible and uninviting. It exists in a symbiotic relationship between the artist, the environment in which it...

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Issue 34 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was shot by @Juneclues and is a photo of Baltimore’s DJ Karizma.

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At rally and march against militarization on JHU. Senator Jill Carter who voted against private police bill says Hopkins wants to be separate from city and its problems with this police force; encouraged everyone to hold new Commissioner Harrison accountable on this issue too

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Black Neighborhoods Matter: @lisamccray writes about how Sonia Eaddy and her family fought to win their home back.

Black Neighborhoods Matter

For the Eaddys, their home, located in the Poppleton neighborhood, means roots—a place that family can go. Sonia Eaddy said that her grandson, who just got out of school, is staying with her now, in...

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Issue nine of Baltimore Beat is live, and it’s our holiday issue!

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Issue 28 of Baltimore Beat is live

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@LisaESnowden . @jaisalnoor writes about how people in Baltimore are organizing around the fight to free Palestine. “Young, local Jewish activists have played a central role in opposing Israel’s assault on Gaza,” he wrote.

Free, Free Palestine

A cold, steady rain fell on hundreds of anti-war activists who took to the streets in Baltimore on the evening of Oct. 20, chanting “Free, Free Palestine!“ and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, the occupation has...

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Issue 31 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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"I worked on this for a week and he...just held a press conference"-every Baltimore reporter after tonight's Det Suiter presser

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Baltimore spends the most per capita of any major city in the United States on policing.

Baltimore’s record police spending isn’t reducing crime

Baltimore spends the most per capita on cops of any US city, and still has over 300 murders a year. Why won’t politicians face the facts?

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Our Baltimore Music Right Now series profiles artists in the city -- some some up-and-coming and others firmly established.

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Tucked into every print copy of Issue 25, you’ll also find helpful information from @mvlsprobono about new expungement laws!

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Megan Lewis updates her traditional large-scale portraits of Black figures with an added layer of texture achieved through the application of oil, acrylic paint, and layers of fabric.

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We are back! Read our letter to you all here . Then tune in to @WYPR881FM this morning and listen to our interview with Sheilah Kast.

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OP-ED: "We’re fighting an uphill battle that we can never win as long as we’re fighting it as individuals," writes @AaronMMaybin .

Op-Ed: Join the organizations looking to bring real change to Baltimore

I’ve been blessed to travel the world in my 35 years of life. I have met a lot of great people, but the best people I know are all from Baltimore. All of us have tough skin, as thick as old leather,...

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"If Prince George’s County—the richest Black area in the country—can be described as a “nigger district,” then wouldn’t that mean that all Black communities would fall under such a vile description as well?" @BmoreDoc on the controversy surrounding Del. Mary Anne Lisanti.

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Issue 23 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover was shot by J.J. McQueen for Baltimore City Government.

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The Baltimore Police Department provided The Real News with data that is frequently inconsistent and sometimes incomplete.

Baltimore’s record police spending isn’t reducing crime

Baltimore spends the most per capita on cops of any US city, and still has over 300 murders a year. Why won’t politicians face the facts?

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A Diaspora Dinner @IdaBsTable , @DrIbram talks about his book, “How to be an Antiracist,” Stoop Stories hosted by @WYPR881FM ’s Aaron Henkin, and more.

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No Private Police, No ICE Contracts at JHU protest in Hopkins Garland hall. There is a march planned for this evening

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Issue 19 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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In Baltimore City, there are notable Black cannabis changemakers who are cultivating space for other Black folks to take up real estate in the industry.

Brown and Black Faces in Green Spaces

Most cannabis businesses and spaces are operated and owned by white people. Still, in Baltimore City, there are notable Black cannabis changemakers who are cultivating space for other Black folks to...

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"In Baltimore, residents can choose several news organizations to read...but Lisa Snowden-McCray became editor-in-chief of the Black-led Baltimore Beat to ensure Black stories are being told and that Black readers are able to read them."

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Catherine Pugh, mayor and author of a series of janky, bizarre, generally unreadable, and rather memeable children’s books is officially taking a leave of absence.

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Issue 8 of Baltimore Beat is live! Head over to to check it out.

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Issue 18 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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@ABurdmanAAL Be well ❤️

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The shootings at Brooklyn Homes, a public housing project in Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood, exemplify the relationship between structural neglect and the idea that Baltimore, and its community members, are criminal and not worthy of care or concern.

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Issue 11 of Baltimore Beat is live!

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This event will especially center the hard work, bravery, and dedication of Palestinian journalists.

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These photos, captured by Baltimore-based artist and photographer Jeremy Collins, capture two different events that highlight Baltimore’s rich cultural heritage.

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Irving Henry Webster Phillips Jr., the Baltimore Sun’s first Black news photographer, died December 22 at the age of 79.

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Thanks to everybody who came to our happy hour and extra thanks if you donated a coat! We surpassed our 150 coat goal 🙏

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In these proceedings, the tenant will automatically lose their case in a “default judgment” if they don’t attend. But the landlord is not required to show up.

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Beat readers! Who has a copy of Pugh's "Healthy Holly: Exercising is Fun" we could borrow? @LisaMcCray ordered one but it won't arrive for a week, we need to read this now 💪🏃‍♀️🏋️‍♀️

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Nine members of the University of Maryland Medical System’s Board of Directors — including Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh — have business deals with the hospital network that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each, a review by The Baltimore Sun has found.

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Just a few years before his music became widely known, Trees was one of the Freedom Way residents pushed out of their homes due to redevelopment.