AFRO - In many ways the heart of Old West Baltimore was that community’s glittering, world-renowned gem of culture and entertainment Pennsylvania Avenue. For many, the way to the heart is through the stomach, and Pennsylvania Avenue, and many of the adjacent streets nearby were home to some of the best Black restaurants in the DMV region.| By Sean Yoes AFRO, Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Black Baltimore has experienced a particularly virulent version of segregation that continues to resonate and in some ways, devastate to this day. When Baltimore Mayor Barry Mahool instituted the city’s housing segregation ordinances on May 15, 1911, “…for preserving peace, preventing conflict and ill feeling between the White […]
