Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced that the City of Baltimore would provide $300,000 in grants to organizations that offer abortion and family planning services. This is a meaningful step toward maintaining Baltimore City’s status as a place where residents and visitors can obtain safe, legal abortion services.

Last week, two and a half years after Destiny’s tragic death, I had the honor of hosting the second Destiny Harrison Dream Scholarship Fund ceremony at Mergenthaler High School. Together with Destiny’s family and educators from the recipients’ schools, we awarded $500 scholarships to forty Baltimore cosmetology students, ten each from Carver Vocational-Technical High School, Mergenthaler High School, Patterson High School, and Edmonson Westside High School. Supporting these young minds is one way that we address the trauma caused by homicide in Baltimore and help build a Healing City.

BALTIMORE, MD (November 21) —Monday, November 22, at 3:00 PM, Councilmember Zeke Cohen will join community leaders Troy Staton (More Than a Shop), Ivan Rodriguez (Bmore Cutz), and barbers from across Baltimore to unite in solidarity against the recent violence in the community. 

The group will speak about improving safety in shops, setting up funds to support the families of the victims in the recent barbershop shootings, and providing therapeutic services to those affected in partnership with Healing City Baltimore, a community-based movement of neighbors in Baltimore focused on healing from trauma, violence, and racial inequity.

BALTIMORE, MD (February 5) – Today, at 3:00 PM, Councilmember Zeke Cohen, Council President Nick Mosby, and Baltimore City Council leadership and staff will be trained in Trauma Informed-Care as a part of the implementation of the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act. The training comes after Councilmember Cohen passed a unanimous resolution for the immediate adoption of the act that added members of the council and their staff to the list of those to be trained.

BALTIMORE, MD (March 16) - Today, at 10:00 AM, Baltimore City Councilmembers Zeke Cohen, Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Philadelphia City Councilmember At-Large Helen Gym, and student activist Kimberly Vasquez will hold a virtual press conference calling on the FCC to investigate digital redlining and reclassify broadband under Title II authority.

The Councilmembers sent a letter signed by 98 elected officials across the country to Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this morning. This action comes as communities of color across the country struggle to access high-speed, affordable internet service during the pandemic while large internet service providers continue to make record profits.

BALTIMORE, MD (Sunday, March 6, 2021) – Tomorrow, at 10:00AM, Councilmembers Zeke Cohen, Phylicia Porter, Odette Ramos, and James Torrence will announce upcoming legislation and resolutions to address illegal dumping and trash concerns in Baltimore City. The event will be followed by a socially-distanced community clean-up at 1627 Spruce St, attended by residents and council staff.

The coalition of Councilmembers formed as an increasing number of Baltimore City residents cite illegal dumping as a growing concern. In a recent hearing on the 311 service, trash concerns were listed as one of the most common kinds of reports made in the system.