*“I started during the pandemic,” said Rosa Pryor-Trusty, an entertainment columnist at The Baltimore Times, about her third book on the history of life in Baltimore titled Maryland Black History Stories: Who, What, When & Where? 1950 – 1980 recently released through Page Publishing. “I was so bored, I couldn’t go out…no shows, no concerts. I started pulling out my files…to clean up. I saw photos I had never used.”
Rosa’s books on black entertainment history in Baltimore have been photo books or books made mainly of photos. Her first book Black America Series African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Arcadia) was published in 2003.
Her second book African-American Community, History & Entertainment in Maryland (Xlibris Corp.) was published in 2013. Colleges have included her books in their required readings and her first book had book sales that were record breaking…