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Jerome Darwin Bird, a retired television and video producer who had been education director for the Pride of Baltimore II, died of progressive supranuclear palsy Dec. 21 at Edenwald Senior Living in Towson.
Baltimore removes statue of slaveowner near its waterfront April 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore has removed a statue of an Irish-born slave-owning merchant from a square in the neighborhood he founded in 1786. After the statue of Capt. John O’Donnell was removed from his namesake park in the Canton neighborhood Monday night, Mayor Brandon Scott said his administration is determined to do much more to erase a legacy of racism. "Countless publicly named monuments, statues, streets, and schools across Baltimore remain that must be reassessed,” Scott sai...
The US city of Baltimore has removed a statue of an Irish-born slave-owning merchant from a square in the neighbourhood he founded in 1786. After the statue of Captain John O’Donnell was removed from his namesake park in the Canton neighbourhood on Monday night, mayor Brandon Scott said his administration is determined to do much more to erase a legacy of racism. “Countless publicly named monuments, statues, streets, and schools across Baltimore remain that must be reassessed,” Mr Scott said. “I am committed to dismantling structural oppression in Baltimore by working with the City Ad...
feed to stay on top of the news. O’Donnell, who was born in Limerick, Ireland, founded Canton as a plantation where he owned slaves after buying about 2,000 acres along the waterfront in 1786, The Baltimore Sun reports. The outlet says the nation’s first census listed 36 slaves living at O'Donnell's plantation. He died in 1805 at the age of 56. The statue was installed in O’Donnell Square park in 1980 by the Canton Improvement Association two years after the neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places. “Tonight, the hostile vestige to the notorious enslaver C...
The US city of Baltimore has removed a statue of an Irish-born slave-owning merchant from a square in the neighbourhood he founded in 1786. After the statue of Captain John O’Donnell was removed from his namesake park in the Canton neighbourhood on Monday night, mayor Brandon Scott said his administration is determined to do much more to erase a legacy of racism. “Countless publicly named monuments, statues, streets, and schools across Baltimore remain that must be reassessed,” Mr Scott said. “I am committed to dismantling structural oppression in Baltimore by working with the City Ad...