Category: Baltimore News

Complete with live performances, historical exhibits and art that highlights Baltimore’s rich Black influence, this year’s African American Heritage Festival is sure to give families across the area the perfect Father’s Day weekend. Kicking off on June 18, R&B crooner Ryan Leslie will open for the blue-eyed soul balladeer Robin Thicke. On June 19, various […]

As the 2010 academic year draws to a close, Baltimore City Community College says goodbye to two pillars of its scholastic community. These men, who forged excellence and demonstrated their ability to change lives are: Walter Dean, 40-year educator, Baltimore area civil rights pioneer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates, who implored people […]

Kenny Tarrant said he never saw it coming. After working with the Baltimore City Animal Control for years, he recently became a victim of the city’s desperate measures to seal the historic deficit. With nothing else to lose, he joined union workers as they rallied before City Hall on June 14 to convince City Council […]

Otis A. Thomas, Ph.D., dean, Earl Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan State University, was awarded the Milton Wilson Award at the Eighth Annual National HBCU Business Schools Deans’ Roundtable Summit, held in Houston, Texas, on June 4. The award was presented by Barron H. Harvey, Ph.D., dean, Howard University School of Business […]

An ordinance that will charge owners of vacant houses additional fees was passed by the City Council on June 14 and is likely to be signed into law by the mayor. Council President Jack Young introduced the Non-Owner-Occupied Dwellings and Vacant Structures Bill on May 24 to generate more than $1 million in new revenue. […]

Healthcare workers from across the region will gather on 3:30 p.m. June 24 at Mt. Vernon Square (intersection of N. Charles and E. Madison) for the Heart of Baltimore Rally, an event calling for better jobs, better health care and a better Baltimore. Actor and activist Danny Glover will join the city’s health care workers […]

Loren Brown held her 8-year-old daughter’s hand as they said goodbye to a man they both loved. Taking their seats, Brown embraced her daughter, who rested her head on her mommy’s shoulder. Together, they somberly accepted a loss they never expected. Five feet ahead of them lay Brown’s husband and her child’s father in a […]

A revolutionary method of making math easy for students has earned a Baltimore-area teacher the prestigious, National Teacher of the Year Award. President Bill Clinton conferred the award upon professor Curtis Jones of the ITT Technical Institute in Owings Mills, Md., June 11 at the Collegiate College Association Annual Luncheon and Awards Banquet in Las […]

Tyrone Brown was days away from attending his son’s eighth-grade graduation in San Diego and a month away from walking one of his sisters down the aisle on her wedding day. He lived with his wife and 8-year-old daughter in Baltimore and was fatally shot nine times by an off-duty cop on June 5. The […]