UMBC Critical Social Justice Town Hall: “Baltimore in Action: Always Rising”

UMBC Critical Social JusticeNovember 2, 2015 – 2-Hour Special

Listen to a special two-hour broadcast of “Baltimore in Action: Always Rising,” a keynote panel discussion held on October 20 at University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and hosted by The Women’s Center and Student Life’s Mosaic Center, as part of Critical Social Justice: Baltimore 365.

I moderated a panel of guests including: the Rev. Dr. Heber Brown, III, Pastor of Pleasant Hope Baptist Church and Executive Director of Orita’s Cross Freedom School; Dr. Marisela B. Gomez, physician, community activist and author of Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in AmericaTawanda Jones, activist and sister of Tyrone West, who was killed by Baltimore police in July 2013; Jacqueline Robarge, Founder and Director of Power Inside, a project of Fusion Partnerships; and Kwame Rose, social activist and hip-hop artist.