After six weeks of walking from New York City on my Walk Across America, I’ve arrived in Baltimore. This city is one of contrasts. On one side, you have the beautiful Inner Harbor with its shops and eateries; on the other, the rowhouses of Sandtown-Winchester and the public housing towers of East Baltimore.
The same despair I fight on the South Side of Chicago is found here — families trapped by a system that profits from their pain. Walk these streets, and it’s clear somebody’s getting rich off the poor. There are plenty of grants, programs and press conferences to go around. But where is the transformation? I didn’t see much…