When maneuvering through Baltimore you often feel as though you’re traveling between two worlds. One world sparks tourists to compliment the city’s beauty. The other world provides the empirical evidence behind the city’s sixth-place finishes in national rankings of the country’s poorest and most dangerous cities. In this world you find working families, mostly black, desperately trying to make ends meet despite the incredible forces working against them. You find an unrelenting drug trade, havens for homicide, extreme poverty, and nihilism exacerbated by unemployment and a public school system in disarray. That the city resides in the third-wealthiest state in the country might feel contradictory, if not for that pesky word we try in earnest to avoid: inequality.
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