Stories from the Stoop: Homayra Ziad

By Melissa Gerr

Published September 13, 2019 at 11:41 AM EDT

Here's a Stoop Story from interfaith scholar and educator Homayra Ziad about the powerful combination of protest and prayer. You can hear her story and many others at stoopstorytelling.com, as well as the Stoop podcast. And watch for the upcoming season of live Stoop shows that begin in October.

Tomorrow, in addition to the big block party 11am to 4pm Saturday to celebrate the Central Library’s renovation, Marin Alsop and musicians from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert for the city of Baltimoreat 4 pm tomorrow at New Shiloh Baptist Church, 2100 N. Monroe St.

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Melissa Gerr

Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'

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