Neither the heavy rain nor the cold that hovered over Baltimore could dampen the spirits of the community leaders, residents, politicians, clergy and police officers who marched through Fulton Heights on April 12 for a rally to make the streets safer. Billed the “Enough is Enough” rally, the event was part of a seven week […]
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Balto Police Hold Youth Summit to Address Failing Systems
Safe havens for young people, cultural diversity training for law enforcement officers and accountability at all levels of criminal justice and social service infrastructure were the recurring themes as youth leaders, community organizers and Baltimore City police officers met on April 15 at the Academy of Success in West Baltimore for the First Annual Youth […]
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Balto. City on Heightened Security Awareness After Boston Bombing
(Updated 4/15/2013) Baltimore City is in a state of heightened security awareness until tomorrow evening following two bomb explosions during the Boston Marathon around 3 p.m., Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said April 15. “In response to today’s incident and in consultation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, I have raised the security awareness level […]
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Local Documentarians Explore Youth Violence in Baltimore
(Updated 4/13/2013) Deontae Smith, 15, will never learn how to drive. He will never go to a prom. He will never vote. While thousands of Baltimoreans gathered in downtown Baltimore to celebrate the return of the 2012 Super Bowl Champions, the Ravens, Deontae was stabbed near the parade route, later pronounced dead at a nearby […]
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Balto. Police and Residents to Walk Together in West Baltimore
The Baltimore City Police, in an effort to forge solid police-community relations in a crime-plagued section of West Baltimore, will stage a series of police-citizen neighborhood events in the Fulton Heights neighborhood over the next seven weeks, police officials said April 11. Beginning April 12, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and officers from the western police […]
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Organization Celebrates Decade of Healing Women
Young professional women and their more seasoned counterparts are to gather in Pikesville, Maryland on April 12 and 13 for the tenth installment of the annual “Heal a Woman to Heal a Nation” Conference (HWHN) for spiritual healing, life support and personal growth. Attendance at the conference, coined “Life in 4G,” a reference to the […]
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Local Credit Union to Acquire Black-Founded Advance Bank
The Municipal Employees Credit Union of Baltimore (MECU), which services people who “live, work, worship or go to school in Baltimore,” according to its advertising slogan, is set to expand at the end of the 2013 fiscal year as it acquires Baltimore-based, Black-founded Advance Bank. The credit union and the bank on April 4 signed […]
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Morgan Students Win Second Honda Challenge
(Updated 4/11/2013) In 1975 the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim joined what very large neighbor to its south? “India!” shouted a student from Morgan State University, winning the university its second championship at the 24th Annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition challenging the wit of the best and brightest students from Historically Black […]
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Va. Attorney General Urges Court to Keep Anti-Sodomy Laws
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is pushing a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling by a divided three-judge panel which declared the state’s anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. Sodomy refers to all sexual acts that are non-penile/vaginal, including oral and anal sex as well as sex between people and animals. Sodomy laws often target sex between […]
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Fraternity Raises Awareness About Sex Trafficking
When hundreds of members and supports of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity meet in Las Vegas on April 11 for the first day of their 2013 Leadership Conference, awareness will be brought to a situation rarely addressed in the Black community: sex trafficking. The San Diego chapter of Phi Beta Sigma has recently partnered with San […]
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Teachers Union Partners with Cartoon Network to Stop Bullying
The American Federation of Teachers and Cartoon Network have partnered on a new campaign to help end bullying in schools across the nation. The “Stop Bullying: Speak Out” partnership hopes to encourage conversations between students and teachers about bullying prevention by providing educators with free resources on the topic. Cartoon Network, alongside LG Electronics, will […]
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Poly Senior to Receive Diploma and Associate Degree in June
Taylor Williams is frantically searching for the perfect senior prom dress. She also still has not purchased her senior farewell outfit or white graduation dress. But on June 1, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute senior knows she is set to wear a black mortarcap and gown while receiving her associate’s degree from Baltimore City Community College. […]