Kaplan offers a bold new vision for addressing social decline in America
the oddly comforting abstraction of death starts becoming something else altogether
to seek answers from those who still practice the arcane arts
it’s a story about redemption
and they seem to be having their first post-Twilight resurgence
Road to Nowhere by Emily Lieb Holiday Kaplan offers a bold newTraces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid 1950s Baltimore's Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, a sprawling park, corner grocery stores, and doctor's offices. By 1957, a proposed expressway threatened to gut this Black, middle class community from stem to stern. That highway was never built, but it didn't matter even the failure to build it destroyed