Baltimore Screening: Unblocked Englewood and Community Conversation on Affordable Housing and Advocacy
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Join us for a screening of Unblocked Englewood, a documentary confronting segregation and how communities are reclaiming neighborhoods
In Baltimore, segregation and community disinvestment isn’t history, it’s present today, shaping neighborhoods block by block. A history that resonates across the nation and in places like Englewood.
In the 1950s and 60s, predatory land contracts extracted an estimated $3.4 to $4.3 billion in wealth from aspiring Black homeowners across Chicago. One neighborhood that bore the brunt of that theft was Englewood.
Unblocked Englewood is the story of what one block is doing about it. This groundbreaking documentary follows artist-activist Tonika Johnson and the Chicago Bungalow Association as they take a reparative approach to the 6500 block of South Aberdeen, repairing homes, beautifying public spaces, and rebuilding community on land that was systematically stripped of its value.
Building on Tonika's celebrated Folded Map Project, which pairs residents at similar addresses in racially and economically divided neighborhoods of Chicago, Unblocked Englewood is both a call to witness and a blueprint for action. Its themes of segregation, disinvestment, community-led revitalization, and the long reach of discriminatory housing policy are not unique to Chicago. They live here in Baltimore, too.
Join us at Unity Hall for an in-person community evening that brings this story home.
Light refreshments will be served
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Summer of IDEAS is a monthly summer film series featuring impactful, affordable housing documentary films that share the lived realities of communities experiencing the housing crisis. Each screening is a community gathering featuring a curated documentary, facilitated dialogue, and space for connection, advocacy, and action.