ART & CULTURE
‘Saving Etting Street’ offers an inspiring look inside a vital Baltimore organization
Dominic Griffin
Black Women Build founder Shelley Halstead is a transplant to the city who, having grown up in a home owned by her family, understands the importance of ownership, of having fertile roots from which to grow.
As a millennial, this critic has long considered even the abstract concept of home ownership to be analogous to acquiring the gift of flight through the use of a jetpack. To this generation, and the ones who have come after, homes aren’t something to own. They’re something to rent, to share, or simply to pine for. But the new documentary “Saving Etting Street” presents them as something you create yourself, with your bare hands…
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