Running along Wolfe Street on the northwest side of the intersection, the posts are intended to give drivers heading east on Bank Street better visibility as they cross Wolfe Street’s two southbound lanes. City Councilman Zeke Cohen, whose district includes Fells Point, unveiled the new posts Monday afternoon.

Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen helped organize the pilot program by connecting the city, business leaders and funders. The goal is to open up certain the hospitality and construction industries to youth employment and to provide options for youth.

"This is how we stop the violence. We invest in a meaningful way into our young people. We provide them an avenue into the workforce. We give them support. We give them love," Cohen said. "This is what is going to stop the violence, and it's not a long term. It's right now."

My most painful moment as a City Councilman was watching two mothers of slain sons meet earlier this month at a Unity Rally. By all accounts, their children were superb young men. Neither one had ever been in trouble. They looked forward to bright futures. The two mothers – one black and one white – embraced and wept. I cried, too.

"So much of the Baltimore narrative is about murder and violence, but that's a very small part of our city," said Cohen, who represents District 1. "This is what real Baltimore looks like." 

On June 19th, Baltimore youth, residents, local elected officials, and environmental advocates rallied inside City Hall in a strong showing of support for city-level climate action. Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen introduced a resolution at the City Council meeting later that evening committing Baltimore to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement.

Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen introduced the resolution, which was co-sponsored by fourteen other members of the council.

The resolution was adopted during Monday night’s meeting by a unanimous vote.

Zeke Cohen: “This is what happens when you have a City Council united.”

City Councilman Zeke Cohen, whose 1st District in Southeast Baltimore borders Seagirt, said the expansion represents "real opportunities for some real economic revitalization."

"Traditionally, the port has been a place for not just family-sustaining jobs but family-sustaining careers," Cohen said. "To see that resurgence has been powerful."

“The best advocates are those who have been treated and been through this,” Cohen said. “It’s empowering to hear these people share their stories, because as someone on the City Council, it is important to know what actions we should take and how early this problem starts for people in our city.”

"Over the past few months, our community here in Highlandtown has come under assault," said City Councilman Zeke Cohen, who represents the area. "First we lost a barber; then a small-business owner. Finally a father was handcuffed and detained after dropping off his 9-year-old at school. The child's mother is back in Honduras. What kind of a country do we live in that would orphan a child in order to enforce its broken immigration laws?"

he First District Councilman is making common cause with the many undocumented immigrants in his district, and that put him in the right wing's crosshairs. He stood up to Fox News bloviator Tucker Carlson last week, parrying Carlson's gibing ambush with a smile. Carlson accused Cohen of not caring about a 14-year-old rape victim, and mocked Cohen's implicit comparison of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Nazis. But Carlson's argument senselessly blamed the rape (which Cohen denounced) on the broad policy goal of humane and practical immigration enforcement. Cohen tried gamely to get this across to Carlson and expanded his thoughts in a WaPo op-ed last weekend.

"All these little businesses that have been sticking it out through the hard times, this could be a wonderful opportunity for them," Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen said.

In response, Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen, a Democrat who represents the 1st District, held a news conference on Monday at City Hall, where Yaslin told a room full of supporters how she and her friends constantly feel the need to look over their shoulders.

Councilman Zeke Cohen (1st District), who called the press conference, told of several men recently taken by ICE.

“We lost a barber, a business owner and a father. They’re not gang members or drug dealers,” he said. Cohen likened the recent raids to what Nazi Germany did before the Holocaust. He likened the undocumented immigrants and their families to his own: “They are like my grandmother who left everything behind, including a family who perished in the gas chambers.”

Monday, Councilman Zeke Cohen introduced a resolution to the council, asking for a more humane way to deal with these issues.

It was unanimously adopted by the council and asks for federal action for more humane immigration enforcement in order to help make Baltimore a more welcoming city.

"Baltimore is a welcoming city we are not going to allow ice to continue to intimidate and harrass innocent people," Cohen told ABC2.  "What the resolution asks ICE to do is to only enforce the actual crimes --so if someone commits violence."

However, Zeke Cohen, a Baltimore Councilman, Chairman of the Education Committee and Goucher alumni (Political Science major, 2008) who attended the event did agree to answer a few questions. “I’m just here to support [the students.] I wake up everyday ready to help them learn.” He also said, “I’m very inspired by youth organized doing the right thing.”