Baltimore


The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan, #1)
A Spool of Blue Thread
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Charm City (Tess Monaghan, #2)
Lady in the Lake
Between the World and Me
What the Dead Know
The Accidental Tourist
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Mary Jane
I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
Wes  Moore
Our society's insistence on limiting help to those who "deserve it," as indicated by their status in the labor market, has a profound impact on the capacity of those living in deep poverty to escape ... we also cannot defend the inhumane debate about who are the deserving versus the undeserving poor. ...more
Wes Moore

Wes  Moore
(his) actions also underscore the limits of symbolic gestures toward social justice that we also often see in the world of philanthropy. We often pay homage to what needs to change and attempt half measures, but we rarely challenge our own complicity in the structural inequities.
Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

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