Community Responses to Violence in Baltimore

May 20, 2015 – Segment 3

We talk with community activists about their response to the recent upsurge of violence and murders in Baltimore. With: Lauren Abramson, Founding Director of the Community Conferencing Center; Melissa Moore, Founder and Program Facilitator of YLLEAD and Holistic Design Village; Bobby Marvin Holmes, Founder of Son of a Dream, filmmaker, and member of the 300 Men March Street Engagement Unit; James “JT” Timpson, Site Director of Park Heights Safe Streets; and Shawnta Privette, mother of a young man who went through a community conferencing process.

Written by Marc Steiner

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