Episode 7: Remembering the Baltimore Uprising

This year marks the sixth anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the Baltimore Uprising. We invite our audience to join us to reflect on the Baltimore Uprising, its aftermath, and the varying ways in which community leaders are working together to redress health, food, and housing disparities in the city of Baltimore and beyond. How does the design and structure of Baltimore ferment a certain understanding of health? How does this understanding of health inform institutional regulations, structures, and the everyday lived experiences of Baltimore’s residents? How can cultivating food sovereignty enable communities living in industrial cities to reimagine and transform industrial structures into healing spaces that empower residents to form community and reconnect with nature and their ancestral histories?

The Religion and Cities Podcast addresses these important questions in the seventh episode of the series as Lawrence Brown, the author of the The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, and Sha'Von Terrell, the Deputy Director of the Black Church Food Security Network, discuss their work and research in the city of Baltimore in the aftermath of the Baltimore Uprising and how we can develop mechanisms to redress health disparities, improve the everyday lives of Baltimore’s communities, and facilitate food sovereignty while improving access to health and essential resources in our cities.