TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Joshua MELVIN -"Hopeless in Baltimore, ground zero of US 'apartheid'"
People eat outside on a closed street to combat Covid-19 in the Charles Village neighborhood on October 14, 2020, in Baltimore, Maryland. - Demon Lane says his east Baltimore neighborhood will still be blighted by drug dealing, deadly gunfire, rat-infested vacant houses and hopelessness, no matter who wins America's presidential election in November. His area is overwhelmingly Black, deeply poor and devastated by decades of neglect, which stands in stark contrast to the pricey condos, new stores and safe streets a few miles away in overwhelmingly white and affluent areas. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)