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The pilot program aims to teach kids confidence and social skills while celebrating the city’s culture.
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Chair Ronald McFadden and member Mujahid Muhammad were some of the only local leaders to show at a student-run town hall this weekend to field youth questions.
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Baltimore Youth Kinetic Energy Collective, or BYKE for short, teaches teens skills and provides them income. Leaders say the nonprofit’s work is a response to inequities in transportation and resources, and saved cyclists $300,000 last year through their free repairs.
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A Johns Hopkins study also found children of color are disproportionately impacted.
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Fact Check: Does Maryland Child Interrogation Protection Act forbid police from interrogating teens?In the wake of Friday’s fatal shooting at Joppatowne High School, law enforcement have renewed complaints about the two-year-old law designed to protect youth.
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Americans born since 1996 are starting to vote! What do they care about? How do they differ from older voters? We ask the author of “The Politics of Gen Z.”
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Tia Hamilton, founder of Urban Reads Bookstore, will hold a youth summit to bring together current and future leaders of Baltimore City.
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The trend is a sign that the Maryland criminal justice system has been treating more teens as adults than in the past.
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Data from the Baltimore Police Department shows that roughly a quarter of juveniles arrested in the city are charged as adults.
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About a third of students report feeling sad or hopeless.