Mural Celebrates East Baltimore Neighborhood, Residents, Future Leaders

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A mural reflecting the residents of neighboring Eager Park and the assemblage was unveiled Saturday.

Painted by creator LaToya D. Peoples, the mural is connected the northbound look of the Elmer A. Henderson School adjacent the country of Biddle and Wolfe streets.

The mural is the archetypal task of East Baltimore Development Inc.’s Public Arts and Placemaking Group, comprised of unit from section authorities and institutions, arsenic good arsenic Eager Park residents and different assemblage partners.

Peoples sought and received input connected the mural’s plan done meetings with assemblage members from January to April. Residents spoke astir topics including East Baltimore’s past and the value of intergenerational relationships.

The mural features emblematic historical East Baltimore rowhome features, including agleam marble stairs, a transom window, and the distinctive ceramic façade, with subtle themes passim that uniquely link backmost to East Baltimore, EBDI officials said.

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The mural features the pursuing residents EBDI described arsenic past, contiguous and aboriginal leaders:

Darrian Alexander, a rising 9th grader and caller postgraduate of Henderson-Hopkins;
Randolph Scott, a lifelong Middle East/Eager Park nonmigratory and retired Army veteran;
SirKaeden Carr, a rising 1st grader astatine Henderson-Hopkins;
Del. Hattie Harrison, who represented District 45 successful the Maryland General Assembly from 1973 until she died successful 2013. She was the longest-serving subordinate of the Maryland House of Delegates and the archetypal Black pistillate to seat a large committee;
Latisha Jackson, a Henderson-Hopkins teacher, and her son, Daryll Thames, a rising fourth-grader astatine Henderson-Hopkins;
Sol Aloe, a rising fourth-grader astatine Henderson-Hopkins