A bold vision that empowers communities to solve our cities’ most pressing problems

Starting this month, Baltimore has a new Open Mic & Slam andddd it’s FREE!!! Come out and test your poems, practice your new ish, and BLESS THE MIC!!!

This powerful meditation, inspired by Lucille Clifton, focuses on choices and changes throughout life, from Yellow Dwarf to Protostar.

The explosive account of the arson wave that hit the Bronx and other American cities in the 1970s—and its legacy today.

Join us for an ASL practice session and fun!

Something, Something, Poetry is a new writing workshop that was born from a local artist's interest in a variety of mediums.

A Black, Queer, FeminIst, Disabled, Urbanist Guide, Toolkit, and Companion for modern life on Earth from one of the world's most notable contemporary urbanists and the creator of The Black Urbanist multimedia platform.

A short how-to gathering for those interested in HRT.

February—a month of history and heritage, of celebrating the creative resilience of the African Diaspora, a month of going back to roots, of loving self and others, of the return of poetic legends.

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day. Gender and sexual expression have always been part of the Black freedom struggle.

In this masterful, groundbreaking work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and would lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.

Inspired by the classic TV series, the collection goes beyond asking “Are you a Miranda?” to consider more pressing questions, like “When will Miranda start HRT and begin going by Hobbes?”

A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like—from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue. A finalist for the Pen Open Book Award!

Higher education is under attack. How do we fight back?

Join More Noise Radio, a community-based internet radio station rooted in Baltimore City, Maryland, for a gathering and skill share!

A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.

Join Flannery O'Connor Award winner Toni Ann Johnson for the release of her new collection of linked short stories, which explores the sometimes painful and often humorous experiences of the Arringtons as an upper-middle-class Black family in a predominantly white, working-class community.

Join More Noise Radio, a community-based internet radio station rooted in Baltimore City, Maryland, for a gathering and skill share!

A history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable