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February 15, 2013

Lawrence Lanahan

February 1, 2013

Lawrence Lanahan

When controversy erupts over big developments in Baltimore, developers often counter with this tantalizing promise: "We've got jobs!"

Full interview with Bailey Pope, Carl Stokes, and Todd Yeary

An update on the Read's Drug Store site

Who's going to train workers for new development jobs?

Today on The Lines Between Us, some people in Baltimore's nonprofit community tell us why they're moving the conversation about employment opportunities beyond "diversity" into "inclusion," and we'll learn what the difference is.

Then, the Celtic music group, Helicon, joins us for a preview of their 27th annual winter solstice concert.

Our series "The Lines Between Us" has turned its focus from fair housing to economic opportunity, with a look last week at the various ways Baltimore’s minority entrepreneurs found support for their ventures when banks were denying them commercial credit.

The biggest challenge,

Do conversations about race become confrontational?

Harry Johnson on developing a new generation of civic leaders

Danista Hunte on developing young leaders for defunct neighborhood ass'ns

The full, unedited interview.

After a couple months looking at the relationship between housing, wealth, and inequality, "The Lines Between Us" is turning its attention to equality of economic opportunity.

A new report from nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica says the federal government has, for over four decades, blown its chance to help create more integrated communities across the country.

Nikole Hannah-Jones on what she thinks the Baltimore region would look like if it had "affirmatively further" fair housing.

Sheilah asks what George Romney's son, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, has had to say about housing.

Nikole Hannah-Jones on why George Romney withheld HUD funds from three cities, including Baltimore.

Nikole Hannah-Jones on why Nixon's stopped Romney's efforts to be "affirmative" in fair housing efforts.

Nikole Hannah-Jones on what can communities do--and what guidance they get from HUD, to "affirmatively further" fair housing.

In the last segment of the episode we hear from a participant in the Baltimore Housing Mobility Program.

Nicole's extended interview.mp3

DeLuca on housing needs.mp3