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• August's Peace Promise Weekend in Baltimore

  The Baltimore Peace Movement is a community-based non-profit group that works to end violence in Baltimore. On four weekends each year, they hold events to encourage those who would do harm to act peacefully, and to help those who are in danger or who are in mourning. The organization's co-organizer Darnyle Wharton joins Midday to discuss Peace Promise Weekend.

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• Healthwatch: How can physical activity bolster the fight against cancer and other disease?

  On Midday Healthwatch, Dr. Leana Wen discusses some of the latest research into the link between exercise and cancer survival. Plus, the latest on nicotine pouch addiction and the effects of "dual-use". Wen is a Washington Post columnist, professor at George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health, author of the book Lifeline: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health and former Baltimore City Health Commissioner.

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• Rousuck's Review: 'Peter and the Starcatcher' at Cockpit in Court

  It's time again for Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. This week, she discusses Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel to Peter Pan. The play is produced by Cockpit in Court Summer Theater and runs through August 3 on the campus of the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Essex.

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• Residents of Towson's Stoneleigh neighborhood want to eliminate race covenants

  From the 1920s until the 1950s, some real estate transactions in Baltimore County included restrictive covenants that contained clauses prohibiting the sale of homes to a “negro” or someone of “negro extraction.” In Stoneleigh, a bucolic neighborhood in Towson near the border of Baltimore City, many deeds still include such covenants. For the last two years, volunteers in this community have worked to remove the restrictive covenants from the deeds of more than 500 homes. Jon Morgan reported on this issue for the Baltimore Banner and joins the show to share his insight. We also hear from Stoneleigh resident and real estate agent Bissett Schwanke, who is a part of the group working to remove the racial covenants.

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• Lawrence Burney's essays capture the Baltimore writer's emergence, and the culture that inspired him along the way

  A new collection of essays charts the maturation of Baltimore culture writer Lawrence Burney, and the albums, artists, films, books, neighborhood gatherings that intersected with important episodes of his life. Burney grew up in Baltimore, and is the founder of True Laurels, a magazine that covers the city’s music and culture scene. He is a former critic for our news partner, the Baltimore Banner, and has work in New York Magazine, GQ and Pitchfork.   The writer's new collection is called No Sense In Wishing.

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