Lisa Snowden- McCray

Baltimore

Lisa Snowden is Editor-in-Chief of @baltbeat, a digital and print-based news outlet and Baltimore City’s paper of record.

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Letter from the editor- Issue 60

1 week ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

In this issue, we bring you two stories that exist only because the people in them decided to speak out. Journalist Logan Hullinger and Baltimore Beat Managing Editor Sanya Kamidi spoke to women who worked under Chad Williams, executive director of the West North Avenue Development Authority (WNADA). As head of the highly influential organization, Williams is tasked with revitalizing the West North Avenue corridor, an area of the city that has long been neglected.
Black Crossword Puzzle: May 7, 2025

1 week ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray |Juliana Pache

Juliana Pache is the creator of Black Crossword, a free daily mini crossword puzzle that places emphasis on cultural clues from across the Black diaspora. You can find her daily puzzles at blackcrossword.com. More by Juliana Pache
Events are driving local news forward — and the results are measurable - Editor and Publisher

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray |Bob Sillick

Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 12:00 am Current Space is a museum and an outdoor event venue where we had our relaunch party in 2022 and our annual summer jam event in 2024. We’re talking with the management about having a periodic event where our journalists can present their recent reporting and then roll it into an outdoor DJ event, which Current Space already hosts regularly.” Some may question the notion that local news media is experiencing a revitalization, given the continued...
Events in Baltimore that honor the life of Freddie Gray and remember the 2015 Baltimore Uprising.

1 month ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

OngoingIn the Wake Of: Resilience and Revolution: Focusing on the intersection of social unrest and artistic expression, this exhibition features the works of Devin Allen, Joe Giordano, and Paul Abowd. All three artists document the emotion, tension, and solidarity that defined the Uprising and what took place in the aftermath, blending personal experiences with collective memory.
Letter from the editor- Issue 59

1 month ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism. I felt pushed to think seriously about the way class comes into account in a city governed by mostly Black politicians. It caused me to think about the way media can be used to sell the police to citizens, as opposed to educating them about the police as a powerful entity in the city — one that residents help fund.
Letter from the editor- Issue 58

1 month ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

In this issue, Grace Hebron writes about a project at the Baltimore Museum of Industry that seeks to record the stories of the people most affected by last year’s Key Bridge collapse. The collapse, which happened in the early morning hours of March 26, 2024, claimed the lives of six construction workers: Miguel Ángel Luna González, Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, José Mynor López, Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval, and Carlos Daniel Hernández.
Letter from the editor- Issue 56

2 months ago | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

“But what if God doesn’t want you covered in muck for a living,” our brilliant film critic Dominic Griffin writes in his review of the 2024 film “The Nickel Boys.” “How are you supposed to endure in a system that doesn’t want you to exist?”The film, set in the 1960s, guides the viewer through the lives of two young African American men as they attempt to live their lives within the boundaries that race has already etched out for them.
Baltimore Groups Protest Donald Trump

Jan 29, 2025 | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

“We are out here on this inauguration day, on this day celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, to begin a new phase in the struggle ahead,” said a speaker named Ben who is a member of the Baltimore Party for Socialism and Liberation at a march held here in Baltimore hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the nation’s 47th president. The evening event was organized by Artists Against Apartheid Contingent.
Letter from the editor - Issue 54

Jan 29, 2025 | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

I don’t think I use this space to talk about our calendar listings often, but I would like to do that now. Each issue of Baltimore Beat has two different calendars: one highlights events that the Baltimore City government is organizing (things like city council meetings, legislative town halls, or events organized by Baltimore City Schools). The other highlights cultural events and other fun things happening in the city.
Letter from the editor - Issue 53

Jan 14, 2025 | baltimorebeat.com | Lisa Snowden- McCray

For the first time in 160 years, the people of Baltimore control their own police force. In this issue, journalist Jaisal Noor explores what that means with Ray Kelly, executive director of the Citizens Policing Project. Kelly said that the move from state control to local control marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Members of the community and city leaders have a lot of work ahead of them as they flesh out just what local control really means.