Development pressures threaten black communities

Rose Wiseman saw the fight for equality unfold 40 years ago during Congress of Racial Equality meetings in her Spa Road living room.

Hannah Chambers could break up a fight among neighborhood girls in Parole as if she were separating her own children.

And Georgette Lindsey of Carrollton Avenue knows to call the police if a certain light in an elderly neighbor's house is out.

Those are a few examples of the close-knit bonds and rich heritage that those living in Annapolis' African-American neighborhoods fear could be blown away by the explosion in property values in and around the city.

"If they keep it up, no...