Author Archives: Blair Adams

Making a grand entrance in a 1929 black Chevy and elegantly attired in a grey-green metallic two-piece dress with silver shoes and a matching hat, a 90-year-old Baltimore resident and South Carolina native arrived at her surprise birthday celebration on Sept. 21. Prepared for what she was only told was an evening out, Roberta S. […]

Deciding whether to purchase food or pay bills is something one Maryland mother of two wasn’t that concerned about-with the help of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). But, if cuts initiated by the House Sept. 19 go into effect, she would have to make some tough decisions. On Sept 19, during a congressional budget […]

Overlooking a clear skyline from their Reservoir Hill home in West Baltimore, a young black professional couple finds themselves squarely in the public eye. They never thought they would have made it this far. Baltimore native and City Councilman Nick Mosby, 34, and his wife Marilyn, 33, a Boston native, State’s Attorney candidate and former […]

A federal grand jury indicted nine Baltimore retail storeowners for a food stamp fraud scheme that netted at least $7 million over the last three years. According to officials, the storeowners would allegedly debit food stamp cards for cash instead of food and split the proceeds. The food stamp scheme has been going on since […]

In an effort to crack down on crime in Coppin Heights, a West Baltimore neighborhood where, according to police, there have been 24 shootings since 2010, a state circuit court grand jury Sept.11 indicted nine local residents on drug conspiracy charges. On Sept. 11, State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein and Police Commissioner Anthony Batts announced the […]

Hailing from generations of educators, Ketia Stokes, a special education teacher at Green Street Academy, a Baltimore City charter school, was named 2013 Teacher of the Year , an acknowledgement she said she never expected. Stokes, 33, spoke to the AFRO, talking about her passion: education. AFRO: How did you feel about being named 2013 […]

Baltimore’s City Council gave the green light Sept. 9 to one of the final –and most expensive—elements of the development of the city’s Inner Harbor, approving planned groundbreaking in October of Harbor Point in an 11-to-3 vote. The council action, taken over the objections of longtime opponents of urban development in the now-unoccupied area, is […]