Category: Baltimore News

A youth oriented group, Youth Opportunity (YO!) Baltimore, helps serve out-of-school youth and young adults between the ages of 16 and 24 at two youth-friendly centers in East and West Baltimore.  The program helps members build important life skills and help young people increase their wage earnings and educational attainment. YO! Baltimore was founded in […]

Caroline Center, a nonprofit workforce development organization providing education and career skills training for underserved women in Baltimore, recently received a $10,000 grant from the UPS Foundation, the charitable arm of the United Parcel Service. The grant will be used to provide full financial scholarships for Caroline Center trainees who wish to pursue their certifications […]

Travis founder of Travis Winkey Studio Travis Winkey, founder of Travis Winkey Studio, will host the American Designer Agencies and Models (A.D.A.M.) Competition, Oct. 11, at the Pikesville Hilton Hotel in Baltimore. The competition, also co-hosted by the world renown super model Beverly Johnson, showcases local to national models and introduces a new size category ‘Women […]

Democratic candidate Marilyn Mosby (l), and Independent candidate Russell Neverdon. Now that the primary election in Baltimore has proclaimed Marilyn Mosby the Democratic candidate for City State’s Attorney, a race that is usually sealed in this majority Democrat city and state, is really beginning. Or is it? Then Democrat Russell Neverdon declared in February of this […]

Lynne Harris, appointed as vice president of corporate communications at the Home Builders Institute. WASHINGTON — Home Builders Institute has appointed Lynne Harris as vice president of corporate communications. Harris brings extensive leadership andexperience in various aspects of communications to HBI, having held positions in print and broadcast journalism, national trade associations and nonprofits. Following […]

Title: She’s All Caught Up! Author: Jamila T. Davis Release Date: 08/26/14 Jamila T. Davis, born and raised in Jamaica Queens, New York is a motivational speaker, prison reform activist and the author of several books geared to empower women. Through her powerful delivery, Davis illustrates the real-life consequences that result from poor choices. Davis, […]

Antonio Hayes, one of the three presumptive delegates for Baltimore City’s 40th District in the House of Delegates. Six months before he officially takes office, Antonio Hayes, the presumptive delegate of the 40th District has begun working on behalf of his district. He is assisting Violetville residents in their attempts to revitalize a local park. […]

Joseph Walker. (Screenshot of cbslocal/newyork news report) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a New Jersey detective in the fatal shooting of a driver during a case of road rage in Maryland. Forty-one-year-old Joseph Walker was found not guilty on all counts on Wednesday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. The investigator for the […]

At the end of each school year, municipalities throughout the country seek ways to provide for the loss of free meals many children receive and rely on. However, federal regulations governing the programs that fund free meals to low-income children are blocking the success of the effort. Of the approximately 85,000 children attending Baltimore City public schools, 84 percent, or about 71,000 […]

The push to find homes for hundreds of unaccompanied Central American immigrant children increases as Maryland leaders search to find a solution to the current immigration crisis. The prevailing thought is that the children are leaving their home country due to the violence they’re forced to endure. For many Central American children, gangs are taking […]

Sen. Catherine Pugh speaks at a press conference at BWI announcing release of report detailing racial inequality among BWI’s concessions workers. African-Americans are disproportionately represented among fast food workers at Maryland’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, while White workers are far more likely to be employed in the often higher paying roles of servers and bartenders, […]

Arnold Jolivet receiving the Special Award at the 2014 Maryland Minority Contractors Association, Inc. 4th Summer Soiree and Awards Banquet. (AFRO Photo/A.R. Ward) (Updated 7/29/2014) Arnold Jolivet Sr., a well-known advocate for minority contractors at both the local and national level, died July 27 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore after struggling with several ailments over the […]