Events: Learn how a historic, discriminatory housing policy shapes Baltimore today
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The Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) is hosting a virtual conversation that will outline the effects of redlining on Baltimore residents in the past and today.
The conversation will be moderated by David Armenti, MdHS’s director of education. Special guests include Dr. Corey J. Henderson, a historical trauma healing expert; Eric Holcomb, the executive director of the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation; Antero Pietila, a journalist, writer, and author of “Not in My Neighborhood,” and Delegate Stephanie Smith of District 45 in Baltimore City.
The panelists will discuss everything from historical and demographic to economic and traumatic ways that Black communities have been impacted by the National Housing Act of 1934’s discriminatory housing practices.
The conversation starts at Noon on Thursday. Get more info here.
Wednesday, July 29
Help Ward 7 stay safe: WABA is hosting its monthly meeting for Ward 7 safety virtually at Minnesota and Nannie Helen Burroughs avenues. During the meeting, participants will identify traffic safety issues for vulnerable road users and think of solutions related to engineering, education, and enforcement.
The event starts at 6:30 pm. You can tune in here.
Learn how global communities are making space for commuters: Share the Road and The Centre for Active Transportation is hosting a webinar focusing on how global communities are changing their transportation networks in response to COVID-19 pandemic, plus how Dutch expertise has influenced these decisions.
Lior Steinberg, an urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, will share interventions and long-term strategies from Tel Aviv and Rotterdam; Lennart Nout, a transport planner and urban designer, will talk about what’s happening in the Netherlands and New Zealand; Lennart Nout will be presenting highlights from a project in Berlin; and Amanda Ngabirano, an urban planner, will share the experience in Uganda’s Kampala City.
The conversation starts at 10 am. You can register here.
Thursday, July 30
Dig into DC’s history of Black power: The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum is hosting a conversation about the history of Black community organizing in DC. The online event is in partnership with Katie Petitt of Current Movements and Matt Birkhold of Visionary Organizing Lab.
Speakers will also include historians George Derek Musgrove and Samir Meghelli. Attendees will also be able to view the museum’s “A Right To The City” digital exhibition and Musgrove’s “Washington, DC Black Power Map.”
The talk begins at 6:30 pm. You can register here.
Friday, July 31
Nature is a learning tool for children: Bienenstock Natural Playgrounds, a Canadian design firm specializing in natural playgrounds, is hosting a 20-minute webinar where Adam Bienenstock will talk about concepts such as nature play and sensory engagement outdoors and how they play into childhood development.
After Adam’s talk, participants will then have 15 minutes to pick his brain. The virtual chat starts at 11 am. You can register here.
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