A huge arts festival draws attention to a massive urban renewal disaster that displaced 19,000 African Americans for an expressway that was never completed.

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Something to Behold in West Baltimore

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By Jamie Haft

This is a story about how residents, artists, community organizers, university professors, and students responded to a massive urban renewal disaster in West Baltimore that displaced 19,000 African Americans for an expressway that was never completed.

Timeline: West Baltimore CultureWorks

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By Bob Leonard

The artistic practice of community cultural development centers on the discipline of planning, doing, and reflecting in a regularly reoccurring iterative process, often extending for years. Time

Script: Something to Behold

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Essay: Remembrance, Healing, Celebration, and Resilience, Art and Organizing in West Baltimore

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By Dudley Cocke, Denise Johnson, Robert H. Leonard, Ashley Milburn, Dr. Randolph Rowel

Edited by Jon Catherwood-Ginn

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Something to Behold: Issues & Questions for Reflection

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Here are five questions that the play, Something to Behold, prompts me to ask. Check out the project overview for context. #1. What does art in a democracy look like? In the play, at first the Artist is worried: With the perceived trappings of

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