Descendants of Annapolis’ Old Fourth Ward petition for ‘atonement and repair’

Descendants of Annapolis’ Old Fourth Ward petition for ‘atonement and repair’

Phillip Chambers Jr. remembers the Old Fourth Ward in Annapolis as “a city within the city.” Even though Chambers did not live in the Old Fourth Ward, he often frequented Chambers Barbershop, a business in the area started by his grandfather, as a kid in the 1960s. “We had restaurants, we had entertainment, we had just different fraternities and sororities. We had the churches. You could get mentorship any and everywhere,” he said. That was the…