Years later, Norton launched The Urban Oyster in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood, making her the first Black woman to open an oyster bar in America. Now the Baltimore native is ready to take on a new challenge: Opening a food stall at Johns Hopkins University's new Bloomberg Student Center. "I grew up actually not far from Johns Hopkins University, on the outskirts of Charles Village," Norton said. There's not anybody in the world that doesn't know who and what Johns Hopkins is. The Urban Oyster had our first event ever in May of 2017 in Towson at a small bistro.