Overview: Born to a teenage mother, Foreman grew up in a blue-collar family. Though she earned a graduate degree and built a solid professional career, the pull of the stage proved too hard to resist. Her comedy and performances have won acclaim, awards and fans from Baltimore to Broadway.

(WIB) – Long before she pronounced herself the “Indie Mom of Comedy,” Michelle D, Foreman —better known onstage as MESHELLE — was just a little girl growing up in Park Heights, a northwest Baltimore neighborhood where Black families built solid lives from the sweat of their brows, working in steel mills, shipping docks, and meatpacking plants.

“Park Heights was full of people who built lives without college degrees,” she recalls. “They worked, they owned homes, and they took care of their families.”

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