COURTESY OF ELIZABETH BARBUSH Gresham stands before boarded-up homes that EBDI promised to renovate. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video “There were many opportunities to do the right thing, to make a difference for those families whose lives will never be the same. The pain and the horror of the whole process, of being relocated and displaced, of gentrified community — you can’t imagine the pain that goes through your mind.” These are the words of Donald Gresham, who is president of the Baltimore Redevelopment Action Coalition for Empowerment (BRACE), a nonprofit that aims to promote economic and racial equity in the city, particularly for the former and remaining residents of the Middle East neighborhood.