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Filling voids: Keeping the legacy of a community organizer in East Baltimore

September 8, 2022

Rocky Brown was known for pushing the city to meet the needs of youth in the Bocek/Madison-Eastend neighborhoods in East Baltimore where he lived and was active. One example of that was in 2017 when he convinced the city to reopen the Bocek Recreation Center, at the time a lone, boarded-up building with trash piling up by its doors and a playground that went unused. The facility had been closed for at least 20 years.

Article Source: The Baltimore Banner

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