Author Archives: Sean Yoes

The fight to get African Americans legally registered to produce and dispense medical marijuana in Maryland is far from over. Different varieties of marijuana flowers are displayed at medical marijuana dispensary. (AP Photo/Gosia Wozniacka) Cheryl Glenn, chair of Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus (LBC), recently urged Maryland residents to join the LBC and demand the state’s […]

A candlelight vigil for Dr. Rosetta Stith, a charismatic and tireless advocate for the education of teenage mothers, will be held June 16 at 7:30 p.m., in front of the building formerly known as the Laurence G. Paquin Middle/High School for Expectant Teenage Mothers. Stith lead the school for many years. Dr. Rosetta Stith On June17, there will […]

I began this column the morning after six people were killed overnight (Monday night into early Tuesday morning June 12-13), another gruesome aftermath, linked to a recent torrent of violence, during this the most murderous year so far in our city’s history. The past two weekends living in West Baltimore have seemed particularly harrowing even […]

Former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake left behind a 500 pound gorilla as she walked out the door of her office at City Hall last December for current Mayor Catherine Pugh to clean up behind. Actually, SRB left four gorillas; four Confederate monuments, sprinkled mostly along the Charles Street corridor, icons of White supremacy in the […]

Ben Jealous, former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) formally announced May 31 that he is a candidate for governor of Maryland. He made the announcement in Ashburton, the venerable West Baltimore community where his mother grew up and Jealous spent many of his summers as a young boy. […]

If you let Det. Marcus Taylor tell it (through his attorneys that is) just about every member of the Baltimore City Police Department is dirty. He would have you believe broad swaths of rank and file officers are running roughshod over mostly Black, mostly poor residents of Baltimore, a la Det. Alonzo Harris in the […]

I’ve known David Miller, the founder and CEO of the Dare to Be King project for a long time. His brother Peter and I graduated from Walbrook High School in 1983 and David graduated from The Brook, one year later. And he’s been working with and mentoring Black boys and young men pretty much ever […]

“I had so many cases, so many things I was trying to research, so I could get justice. Because I knew the odds was against me; it’s little old me against a powerful system. So, all I would do is study law, read judge’s opinions to cases and I would just research the law every […]

Ivan Potts seemed implausibly upbeat when I spoke with him on April 14, just two days after he was released from Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, Md. where he had spent almost two years after being convicted on a gun charge. That conviction was vacated last week and the charges dropped against Potts, after discovering […]