Listen "Voices from the Real Baltimore - Challenging The Wire on Drugs and Violence"
Episode Synopsis
Send us a textThe HBO show The Wire is hailed as a "realistic" portrayal of the Baltimore's street drug trade and violence that springs from it. But is this true? In the first episode of "In Search of Black Power" activists and residents from Baltimore challenge the show's depictions, incorporating analysis from Baltimore history and of current movements to show the real Baltimore is more complicated, and beautiful, that the show could imagine. Support the showIn Search of Black Power is a Black-owned internet show and podcast. This podcast is sponsored and produced by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS). The internet show is published in collaboration with Black Liberation Media (BLM)
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