A Black Boy In Baltimore

Melinda D. Anderson, The Atlantic
Mon, 10/05/2015 - 8:06am

Scott sits on his bed in the Northwest Baltimore apartment he and his mother moved into just a few weeks ago. Emily Jan / National Journal Sitting on the campus of a historically black college in July, Baltimore teen Scott Thompson II was in his comfort zone. In a stroke of luck and good timing, Scott’s mom, Myeisha Thompson, had been able to enroll the 13-year-old in the Maya-Baraka Writers Institute, a five-week intensive summer writing camp hosted by the college for the city’s youth.

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