Learn more about Chicory Magazine and the history, present, and future of Black people and communities in and outside Baltimore.
History of Chicory and Baltimore
- History of Chicory Magazine
A brief history of the original Chicory magazine (1966-1983) from the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Digital Collections.
Baltimore '68 by The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.
Provides historical context surrounding the early years of Chicory's publication.
Come and Be Shocked by ISBN: 1421437910Examines the cultural history and racial politics of contrasting images of the city... [and] looks at how artists created powerful images of Baltimore.
Mary RIzzo is a co-founder of the Chicory Revitalization Project and chapter 3 discusses Chicory magazine in depth.
Baltimore's Young Artists
- The Chicory ProjectHomepage of The Chicory Project, a re-imagining of the original magazine, expanded to include workshops and oral histories, as well as a relaunch of the magazine for a new era.
- DewMore Baltimore!"DewMore uses poetry as a platform and as a tool to build strong young people who become leaders in their community. Young people with poetry and perspective become the catalyst for the change they want to see in their Baltimore."
- Writers in Baltimore Schools"We create a community of support for Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) students through in-school, after-school, and summer programs that build literacy and communication skills. Our creative writing programs work toward racial and economic equity, breaking the cycle of multi-generational low literacy by giving students a smaller, more participatory setting to immerse themselves in reading and writing."
Environment
The Lines Between Us by Call Number: eBookExposes the intricacy of Baltimore's hypersegregation through the stories of ordinary people living it, shaping it, and fighting it... This eye-opening account of how a city creates its black and white places, its rich and poor spaces, reveals that these problems are not intractable; but they are designed to endure until each of us... understands we have something at stake.
The Black Butterfly by Drawing on social science research, policy analysis, and archival materials, Brown reveals the long history of racial segregation's impact on health, from toxic pollution to police brutality. Brown [also] offers a clear five-step plan for activists, nonprofits, and public officials to achieve racial equity.
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Call Number: eBookOffers a close examination of the literary culture in which [the Black Art Movement's] poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, [and others]) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors.
Mental Health
Black mental health matters : the ultimate guide for mental health awareness in the Black community by Renowned Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Aaren Snyder uses years of experience to increase mental health awareness in the black community, through captivating real-life stories and simple, down-to-earth explanations of complex psychological problems that impact the black community
The Long Shadow by This work focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being.
Getting Out by Rather than view their violence as pathological, Morton explains that gang members are victims of violence, and the trauma they have experienced leads them to choose violence as the most meaningful option available. To support young people as they "unlearned" violence and pursued nonviolent alternatives, he offers what he calls a "Youth Positive" approach that prioritizes healing over punishment and recognizes them as full human beings.
- Soul School and Black History
Eddie Conway talks to Babatunji Baloqun of the Soul School Institute and history professor Baba Zak A. Kondo about the founding of Soul School and the history of Baltimore's Black Movement. Source: The Real News Network
Activism
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore by Using a community in East Baltimore as an example, [this book] shows how the social structure of race and class segregation of the past contributed in the creation of our present day urban poor and low-income communities of color; and continues to affect the way we rebuild these communities today. [It also] details the role of community organizing in challenging these types of non-community participatory rebuilding processes.
Give Us the Ballot by ISBN: 0374158274Charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day.
Opportunity
Piecing Me Together by Every day [Jade] rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where she has plenty of opportunities. But some opportunities she doesn't really welcome... Jade wants to speak, to create, to express her joys and sorrows, her pain and her hope. Maybe there are some things she could show other women about understanding the world and finding ways to be real, to make a difference.
Brown in Baltimore by In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma."
