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Alanah Davis

Alanah Davis is a Baltimore-based mother, cultural worker, community advocate, and social change and arts consultant. She earned her master’s degree in social design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Davis is a Leslie King Hammond graduate fellow, Maryland Delaware and DC Press Association awardee with the Maryland Matters newsroom, and a 2021 recipient of the Fred Lazarus Leadership for Social Change award. Her written witticisms surrounding love, race, womanhood, and being a human have gone viral online in perfect millennial fashion and are also in print to match her old soul.

“Lessons in Chemistry” unfolds as a drama now airing on Apple TV, immersing its audiences in the 1950s. The story orbits around a feminine…

The writer encourages readers to delve into the rich cultural and linguistic diversity of Baltimore.

I was still at an age where a Scholastic book fair on a day when golden-brown leaves might rustle underfoot in The Bronx or…

The romantic longings of fat-bodied people are just like everyone else’s, except…

With the amount of consumerism all around us, we’re always being told what to think.

What is a good friend? Why’re they so rare? Where can we find good friends?

photo illustration of a brain wearing a santa hat

Last week I treated myself to a box orchestra seat to see Leslie Odom Jr. at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. I struggled to find…

For as long as I can remember, my second language — and damn near my first — was rooted deeply in the linguistics of…

I think it may have been the winter of 2016 that I truly fell in love with jazz music, its unpredictable measures, its wild…

I just wrapped up my final weeks of grad school pursuing my master’s degree in social design at Maryland Institute College of Art. You…