Bmore Me

We are SO proud of this collaboration with 14 BMore Me student fellows from Baltimore City Public Schools! The high school students created a book of poetry + history from the AFRO American Newspaper archives that celebrates Baltimore’s young people today, and the leaders who came before them (all who have school buildings named after them here in Bmore).

From the book’s foreword: “Names are powerful. For our school buildings, they tell the story of communities, often memorializing people or places that reflect the neighborhood’s history. For our city’s students, they become a part of their identities – not just the names they chant at sporting events or that they represent at debate tournaments and poetry clubs, but the spaces where they write formative chapters in their lives, filled with stories they’ll reflect on when they’ve left City Schools to pursue their dreams.”

Cover design by CHARM editor, Iris Zheng, grade 10.