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July 31, 2025 Residents of Towson's Stoneleigh neighborhood want to eliminate race covenants
From the 1920s until the 1950s, some real estate transactions in Baltimore County included restrictive covenants that contained clauses prohibiting the sale of homes to a “negro” or someone of “negro extraction.”
In Stoneleigh, a bucolic neighborhood in Towson near the border of Baltimore City, many deeds still include such covenants. For the last two years, volunteers in this community have worked to remove the restrictive covenants from the deeds of more than 500 homes.
Jon Morgan reported on this issue for the Baltimore Banner and joins the show to share his insight. We also hear from Stoneleigh resident and real estate agent Bissett Schwanke, who is a part of the group working to remove the racial covenants.
17 min
July 31, 2025 Rousuck's Review: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' at Cockpit in Court
It's time again for Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. This week, she discusses Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan.
The play is produced by Cockpit in Court Summer Theater and runs through August 3 on the campus of the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Essex.
9 min
July 31, 2025 Lawrence Burney's essays capture the Baltimore writer's emergence, and the culture that inspired him along the way
A new collection of essays charts the maturation of Baltimore culture writer Lawrence Burney, and the albums, artists, films, books, neighborhood gatherings that intersected with important episodes of his life.
Burney grew up in Baltimore, and is the founder of True Laurels, a magazine that covers the city’s music and culture scene. He is a former critic for our news partner, the Baltimore Banner, and has work in New York Magazine, GQ and Pitchfork.
The writer's new collection is called No Sense In Wishing.
18 min
July 30, 2025 Brandi Collins-Dexter, an insightful scholar, died recently. We revisit our interview about her prescient book, 'Black Skinhead.'
Brandi Collins-Dexter, a keen observer of politics, an insightful scholar on race and a brilliant author, recently passed away at the age of 44.
Today, a look back at Collins-Dexter's Midday interview on her book, Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and our Political Future. The author joined Midday in November 2022, just days before the mid-term elections in 2022.
Collins-Dexter, who lived in Baltimore, was a Media Justice Fellow at The Center on Race & Digital Justice, and the associate director of research at the Technology and Social Change Project housed at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. Brandi held the Schuster Media & Technology fellowship at the Shorenstein Center from Fall 2023 until the time of her death.
From 2014 to 2020, she served as the former Senior Campaign Director of the social justice organization, Color Of Change.
In Black Skinhead, Collins-Dexter zoomed in on the relationship between Black voters and the Democratic party, an alliance that began during the civil rights movement more than half a century ago and argued assumptions about that relationship need to be re-examined.
49 min
July 29, 2025 In 'Something Between Us,' a guide to overcoming the walls between Americans
What can bridge the widening divisions in America today? How can society foster a greater sense of belonging among different communities?
Dr. Anand Pandian seeks answers to those questions in his new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take Them Down, where he invites us to explore the areas of our lives that create greater separations and barriers.
Pandian is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. He will discuss the book at The Ivy Bookshop on August 21.
49 min
July 28, 2025What Ya Got Cookin': Summer recipes with Baltimore award-winning chefs
Roasted Peach Ice Cream Recipe | Chesapeake Bites
Roasted Peach Ice Cream Recipe
1 pound barely ripe peaches,
peeled, pitted and diced
1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 can (14-ounce) sweetened condensed milk
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups half and half
Directions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Convection works best.

Toss the peaches with cinnamon and place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Place in the oven and roast for about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool completely.

Whisk all ingredients together and place in an ice cream freezer. Process according to manufacturer's instructions. Normally the process takes about 25 minutes or until it sounds as if the motor is straining and the canister begins to slow.

Transfer ice cream to a bowl, cover tightly with a lid or plastic wrap and freeze until ready to serve.

Back Creek Inn Crab Quiche with Sweet Corn & Tomato | Chesapeake Bites
Ingredients:
Pastry dough for a 9-inch single-crust - homemade or store bought
3 eggs, lightly beaten
½ cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
Freshly ground black pepper
8 ounces Swiss or gruyere cheese, finely shredded (about 2 cups)
½ small red onion, very thinly sliced
½ cup sweet corn kernels
½ cup diced ripe tomato
1 pound lump crabmeat, picked over for shells
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.

Line a 9-inch pie pan with the pastry dough.

Combine the eggs, mayonnaise, flour, thyme, and black pepper in a bowl. Mix well. Gently stir in the cheese, onion, corn, and tomato. Then add the crabmeat and fold in very gently. Then add the crab mixture into the pie shell.

Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 to 45 minutes.

Remove from the oven and allow to rest for at least 15 minutes before serving.

Serves 6 to 8
48 min
July 25, 2025Controversy over the next Baltimore County Inspector General heats up with nominee announced
Follow for more reporting on this topic:
Klausmeier rejects Madigan, goes with another nominee for Baltimore County inspector general
National watchdog group slams Baltimore County’s Inspector General selection process
15 min
July 25, 2025 In an Eastern Shore town facing rising tides, FEMA's plan to help gets cut
Adam Willis wrote about Crisfield and its inhabitants as rising tides threaten their future.
14 min
July 25, 2025 Reporter's Notebook: New insights from Key Bridge collapse. Plus, Baltimore's battle with opioids
WYPR Reporter Scott Maucione joins the Midday News Wrap to discuss the big news of the week he's following.
He speaks with WYPR News Director Matt Bush about new information on the Key Bridge collapse, following the release of transcripts from the Dali cargo ship.
Additionally, the mass overdoses in the Penn North area are driving city officials and emergency responders to closely examine the strategy on drug prevention and crisis response.
21 min
July 24, 2025 The Rousuck's Review: The Contemporary American Theater Festival
Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom in the studio to review one of our region's current theater productions.
This week, she gives us an inside look into plays on stage at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. The festival runs through August 3 at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
10 min

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