Fire is a gift from the gods, but it’s still hard to watch your neighborhood burn. There was no CVS on the corner of Pennsylvania and North Avenues in West Baltimore — or Penn North as folks from the area call it — but I know the corner like the back of my hand. I […]
Author Archives: Derrell Bradford
Derrell Bradford is the executive director of NYCAN: The New York Campaign for Achievement Now, and contributes to 50CAN’s blog, The Catalyst, where a version of this column first appeared. He lives in the New York City metro area.