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Baltimore's Multi-Billion Dollar Future, Poetry That Explores Racial Lines, Jessye Norman's Memoir

Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun

 Billions of public dollars will be invested in public infrastructure in Baltimore in the next few years. Sheilah talks about it with reporter Edward Ericson, who wrote about the building boom for the City Paper. And, we get an update on the progress of one project in particular: Baltimore school renovations. Then, Tom Hall talks with poet Ailish Hopper about her new book of poems, Dark-Sky Society, which explores America’s racial lines. After, Tom talks with opera star Jessye Norman, about her new memoir.