Category: Baltimore News

This undated handout photo provided by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services shows Rodriquez Purnell. A Maryland lawmaker on Tuesday called for an independent criminal investigation into the accidental release of a man awaiting trial on murder charges from a Baltimore prison. Purnell, 30, was released Friday from the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic […]

A lawsuit that accused two Baltimore restaurants of discriminating against African-American job applicants and employees was settled to the tune of $1.3 million plus injunctive relief, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced recently. Filed in 2008, the EEOC complaint charged McCormick & Schmick’s Restaurant Corp. with violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act […]

DaVeeda Young White in front of the banner for her organization dq4qd.com. “I was up on campus at homecoming and my legs just gave out on me. I hurt; everything hurts,” says DaVeeda Young White, who has been living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for the last 15 years. “I have to plan in advance before […]

For Randallstown residents the long wait for a promise to be fulfilled is finally over. Some new Ruby Tuesday team members, a mostly minority staff of 95, gather in front of bar lounge area. That promise, made nearly twenty years ago, by then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, was for a new, full-scale, national chain family […]

A local vegan restaurant and a public health organization have joined forces to bring the first annual Vegan SoulFest to Baltimore City on Oct. 25. This festival is to engage people in conversation about the vegan lifestyle in a way that is culturally sensitive and takes into account the whole range of socioeconomic levels in […]

Marvin “Doc” Cheatham reading to a kindergarten class. More than 1,000 students in 21 Baltimore schools were visited, Oct. 13, by men who read to them and generally created a very special morning. They encouraged them to go to school every day – echoing the call of Dr. Thornton, Baltimore Schools new CEO, according to […]

An Anne Arundel County man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for a gruesome shooting, which caused the victim to fall into a coma for four months and be hospitalized for a year. Prosecutors say Kelly Gross, 25, was sentenced Oct. 21 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. He was convicted of the crime […]

My dear AFRO readers, this story is dedicated to those of you who take trips with me to the backroads of my memory. For some of you this may be your first time with me.  October 24 is a special day. It was a moment in time, not just a fanciful dream. So come with […]

Larry Hogan, second from left, a Republican Maryland gubernatorial candidate, stands with his wife Yumi, left, running mate Boyd Rutherford, third from left, and Rutherford’s wife, Monica, right, after Hogan announced Rutherford as his running mate during a campaign rally Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 in Riva, Md. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) In January, Republican gubernatorial nominee […]

BALTIMORE – Clinton resident Allisa Queen teaches Pre-K4 at a Washington D.C. charter school. She also has two little girls: Jasmyn, age 6 and Sky, age 4. So, she has given the subject of universal pre-K a lot of thought. Jasmyn is in first grade at a Prince George’s County public school. Sky spends all […]

At a time when wages for many Americans have stagnated, and in a city where unemployment outpaces the national average, trade unions still offer young people an opportunity to earn things that seem almost lost to the pages of history books: a living wage, health insurance, a retirement pension. Cory McCray, an organizer with IBEW […]

Anthony Anderson, Tyrone West, George King. In Baltimore, these are our “Mike Browns.” Now, at a time of focused national attention on incidents of police brutality in other parts of the country, a group of mothers and relatives of Black men lost to police violence called for a rally to focus attention on police brutality […]