ROCK THE DIASPORA

MEDIA

A Baltimore Tech-sposé: Protecting

(Black)Women From Abuse of Power, Part II

DMV Metro Area (10-04-26)

Find the Instagram post here. Part I is here.

ACTIVISM


"Fighting fascism & supporting Baltimoreans"


"BSH operates from 814 N. Collington Ave.

in Baltimore, delivering person-centered care,

housing placement, and wraparound support

services to those who need them most."

 
"PPA fights to defend the rights of poor and working

people, including jobs, education, and healthcare.

We struggle against racism and sexism,

police terror and low wages." They've resisted

since Trayvon Martin in 2012.

POWER INSIDE


"We envision a world where gender equity and

respect for human rights are everyday realities in the

lives of women, their families, and their communities."


"TurnAround provides services to survivors of intimate

partner violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking

in Baltimore County and Baltimore City, and

survivors of human trafficking in Howard County."


"The University of Maryland SAFE Center for Human Trafficking

Survivors provides comprehensive survivor-centered

and trauma-informed services that empower sex and labor

trafficking survivors to heal and reclaim their lives."

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clark Davis, Joshua. "Activist Businesses and Baltimore’s Overlooked History of Social Movements." The Metropole, November 29, 2018.
Rodricks, Dan. "Discovering the Houses That Frederick Douglass Built for the Poor." Baltimore Fishbowl, August 19, 2020.
Alexander, Kerri Lee. "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper", National Women’s History Museum (2018)
Facing History & Ourselves. "'We Are All Bound Up Together'", September 1, 2022.
Novara, Elizabeth A. "Ida R. Cummings (1868 - 1958)." Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, June 2019.
Maryland State Archives. "Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins." Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. (2021)
Loyola University. "1910: The Great Migration." The Baltimore Story: Learning and Living Racial Justice.
Cassie, Ron. "The Great Migration." Baltimore Magazine, February 5, 2020.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "Mill Stories: Sparrows Point." (2013)
Maryland State Archives. "Augusta T. Chissell (1880-1973)." Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. Updated 2023.
Mehr, Emmanuel. "Intertwined Histories of Courthouses and Black Legal Rights in Baltimore, 1770-1900." Baltimore Histories Weekly, April 22, 2023.
University of Richmond. "Mapping Inequality: Redlining in New Deal America, Baltimore." American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History, December 2015.
Lillie Jackson Carroll Museum. "About Us."
Maryland Center for History and Culture. "Capturing the Movement: Before and After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Photographs." June 27, 2014.
Little, Ryan & Thieme, Nick. "The Two Baltimores: A Year of Data Reporting Shows Segregation Still Defines the City." The Baltimore Banner, June 13, 2023.
Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. OCR. "A Civil Rights Agenda for the 1980's." May 1981.
Justia. "Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57." U.S. Supreme Court Opinions, Volume 477 (1986)
Litten, Kevin. "Advertising.com is moving from Locust Point to Brewers Hill." Baltimore Business Journal, August 21, 2014.
Baltimore Uprising Archive Project. Accessed September 30, 2026.
Government Technology. "Baltimore Lacks Tech to Track Sexual Assault Cases." September 9, 2019.
University of Maryland SAFE Center for Human Trafficking Survivors. Established 2016.
TurnAround, Inc. "Mission." (2011)
Maryland General Assembly, House. "Chapter 687/HB 297." October 13, 2023.
Lestrade, Arianna. "Close to Home: The Human Trafficking Epidemic in Baltimore, Maryland". UCF Global Perspectives, November 29, 2022
The Impact Magazine. "Black Women Are Losing Their Place in America’s Workforce. This Is Not a Statistic. This Is a System." August 19, 2026.

MORE READING

City Observatory. "Lost in Place: Why the Persistence and Spread of Concentrated Poverty..." December 2014.

Baltimore Fishbowl. "#MeToo in Baltimore: Local Women Talk Workplace Harassment..." March 22, 2018.

McNeil, Adam. "Black Rights and Black Citizenship in Antebellum America", AAIHS, October 2, 2018.

Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Looking for Landmarks from the Movement (2019)

National Black Women's Justice Institute. "Black Women, Sexual Assault, and Criminalization." April 11, 2023.

Henderson, Teri. "TWUK (The Wh0re You Know". Baltimore Beat, June 4, 2024.

Stewart, Khiree. "Baltimore Woman Facing Over 100 Charges Stemming from Sex Trafficking Ring." WBAL-TV, June 4, 2024.

Hicks, Kyra. "Are Quilts An Expression of Hoodoo?" Krak Teet, October 18, 2024.

PART ONE