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Manifesting and documenting peace in Baltimore

By Sheilah Kast,
Melissa Gerr
Published October 18, 2023 at 10:11 AM EDT
Exhausted neighbors watch police at a shooting scene in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore in 2013. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Exhausted neighbors watch police at a shooting scene in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore in 2013. Photo: J.M. Giordano
Aunt of Davon 'Lil' Daddy' Ockime mourns his death at the scene where he was gunned down in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore in 2013. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Aunt of Davon 'Lil' Daddy' Ockime mourns his death at the scene where he was gunned down in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore in 2013. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Children at the Edmonson Ave. Peace Movement Rally in 2023. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Children at the Edmonson Ave. Peace Movement Rally in 2023. Photo: J.M. Giordano
Volunteers of Baltimore Ceasefire burn sage at Broadway and Eager Sts. on a Monday evening following a shooting that happened the previous night during a Ceasefire weekend. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Volunteers of Baltimore Ceasefire burn sage at Broadway and Eager Street on Monday evenung following a shooting the previous night during Ceasefire weekend. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Members of the Nation of Islam at the vigil for Jennifer Jeffrey Browne and Kester “Tony” Browne III in 2015. Photo: J.M. Giordano
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Members of the Nation of Islam at the vigil for Jennifer Jeffrey Browne and Kester “Tony” Browne III in 2015. Photo: J.M. Giordano

Many people only see a crime-ridden, violent version of Baltimore City. We hear from photographer J.M. Giordano and Baltimore Peace Movement co-founder Letrice Gant, who are dedicated to helping citizens understand and embrace the truth: there is much more at work than that same old narrative.

Links: Baltimore Peace Movement, Peace Weekend Nov. 3-5, Sat. 10.21 Lost Weekend Book fest talk for ‘13 to 23: How a Summer of Violence Led to a Decade of Activism.'

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Sheilah Kast
Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
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Melissa Gerr
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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