The Annapolis City Council held a work session on March 19, 2026, beginning with the presentation of the Key to the City to an honoree, followed by a detailed presentation on the Cars Beach and Octonia Beach shoreline restoration and park design, and concluding with an after-action report on Winter Storm Fern. The meeting included community partners, city staff, and council discussions on funding, parking, and operational improvements.
Being raised in with a culture of women of hairdressers that I was that had that I looked up to growing up, I was heavily equipped. I used to sit in hair salons and watch the ladies work and I really learned a lot about getting a hairstylist with my mentors in front of me. I mean, I have clients like Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Kelly Rowland, Yarichi PD. I like grammars here, I like confidence hair. I like how this slept on and lived in and ruffled up. I told myself that I could dream, and I told myself that I could in a situation where I was I wasn't supposed to. And so me standing here today is a huge honor because when I started my journey, I had no idea that this could be. But I kept going and I kept doing. Here we are today. I'm getting the keys of the city. On behalf of the city of Annapolis, we present you with the keys to the city. I honestly want to say thank you so much. Listen, I be working really, really hard. And I love what I do. I love an atmosphere. I want to be able to create space for younger individuals to be empowered to be uplifted to find mentorship and to really strategize ways to really uplift. And so I'm gonna start a nonprofit here in the Netflix. It means more to me than the accolade. It's really about the order for me. It's really I'm really honored and grateful. And that's what it means to me. It's really I have a lot of humanity for what my ancestors did for me. The first time that I was aware of an election, my grandmother, Lena Holland, Foreman, she'd be out there every election on that corner, any kind of weather, passing out flyers, talking to people, because she believed in that, being able to catch a vote, to have your voice, that voice. And when Eisnahoe ran, I went in there with my grandmother when she voted. Because she couldn't read. But I later on I didn't believe that I had to do that. I said, little simple mad, a little reading thing, you know, question, uh uh question and answer page. But I didn't have to do that here. So when I came back home, I re-registered and we didn't have to do it. And I've been voting since I was 18 years old. I might have missed one year. That's when I transitioned from Maryland to New York that one time. And that was in Stanton Island, and I didn't know where to go. Things weren't going so good over in our neighborhood, and I had been there for a few years in Eastport, and somebody was running for office, and we never saw him, and so I'm never met him or anything. And he never came to Individual that I knew of. Um meetings or anything. Things weren't good for the working class, the children mainly. There were a lot of things that needed to be done. You know, the tracks and park thing had to be done and corrected. It's uh there was no activities for the youth. There weren't any black businesses. Cab drivers, barbershops, beauty shops. That was it. And every time one of us came in, we had to go to hell to get a certificate or something. Just talking to people in general, how hard it was to live in Anna Pass and being poor was very hard. Yeah, all of this was going on. They were losing their homes. A lot of the people did not live up to uh or the children weren't able to purchase the property that their families had, they just died off. And those who could, they they left town and never came back. So a lot of the property they sold it for 20,000, 30,000, and it went up to 250,000 in cost.