Ryan Little
@ryanlittle.bsky.social
Ryan Little is the data editor at The Baltimore Banner and an adjunct instructor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland
We just fixed a bug that prevented some schools from showing up, including City College.
February 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
We just fixed a bug that prevented some schools from showing up, including City College.
The problem is exacerbated by the city's school choice program. Baltimore doesn't have neighborhood schools. Any student can go to almost any school. Our package includes a tool for students and their parents to compare routes to schools near and far. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
What Baltimore school is best for you? Compare routes using this tool.
Use this tool to compare routes from your neighborhood to any Baltimore public school.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The problem is exacerbated by the city's school choice program. Baltimore doesn't have neighborhood schools. Any student can go to almost any school. Our package includes a tool for students and their parents to compare routes to schools near and far. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
Nick's work became a national partnership including The New York Times' The Upshot, Stanford's @biglocalnews.bsky.social and nine local newsrooms across the country. Other newsrooms can take part by accessing the the national data in the Stanford Digital Repository. purl.stanford.edu/cx567kr8730
Senior Overdoses Project
The overdose crisis for Black men in American cities began decades ago--along with economic dislocation and abundance of heroin and cocaine. The group of men who were affected, born between 1951 an...
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February 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Nick's work became a national partnership including The New York Times' The Upshot, Stanford's @biglocalnews.bsky.social and nine local newsrooms across the country. Other newsrooms can take part by accessing the the national data in the Stanford Digital Repository. purl.stanford.edu/cx567kr8730
In Indianapolis, Black men said they were reluctant to use public health solutions like syringe exchanges or fentanyl test strips because of a fear of harassment by police, Mirror Indy found.
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Why one generation of Indy Black men have been dying of overdoses for decades, and how survivors are fighting to help
In Indy, survivors are fighting to help the next generation.
mirrorindy.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In Indianapolis, Black men said they were reluctant to use public health solutions like syringe exchanges or fentanyl test strips because of a fear of harassment by police, Mirror Indy found.
mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...
mirrorindy.org/indianapolis...
In Milwaukee, half of older Black men lost to drugs spent time in state prison. Wisconsin is trying to increase access to a Department of Corrections treatment program, which has a waitlist of 11,700, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social found. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/01/drug...
Milwaukee is losing a generation of Black men to drug crisis
Older Black men account for a growing share of Milwaukee drug deaths as fentanyl creeps into cocaine supplies, catching a generation unaware.
wisconsinwatch.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In Milwaukee, half of older Black men lost to drugs spent time in state prison. Wisconsin is trying to increase access to a Department of Corrections treatment program, which has a waitlist of 11,700, @wisconsinwatch.bsky.social found. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/01/drug...
In Boston, where this generational disparity is a more recent phenomenon, older Black men feel less welcome in treatment programs, @bostonglobe.com found.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/m...
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‘A forgotten generation’: Older Black men in Boston are dying of drug overdoses at alarming rates - The Boston Globe
A new analysis shows that Black men 55 and older are now hardest hit by the opioid epidemic.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In Boston, where this generational disparity is a more recent phenomenon, older Black men feel less welcome in treatment programs, @bostonglobe.com found.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/30/m...