Category: Baltimore News

Local activist PFK Boom berates the Rev. Jamal Bryant on video. (You Tube) (Updated 5/29/2016) In a video uploaded by local activist group Baltimore Blocc on May 25, a local activist orders the Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor of one of the largest churches in Baltimore and one of the stars of an upcoming talk show […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u A review of some of the top news stories of the week, directly from the pages of the AFRO, with managing Editor Kamau High. Among the stories we’ll discuss is the public, alleged death threat against Pastor Jamal Bryant of the Empowerment Temple. Plus, the Mod Squad, Taya Graham and […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll examine Marland’s Justice Reinvestment Act and it’s impact on the state and the efforts for law enforcement and criminal justice reform with, Kevin Shird, youth advocate an author of, “Lessons of Redemption,” Marc Schindler, executive director of the Justice Policy Institute and Toni Holness of the Public Policy Counsel […]

BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo is happy to announce that two male cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), have arrived from the San Diego Wildlife Safari Park to take up residence in the African Journey section of the Zoo.  Refu (Ray-fu) and Wgasa (Wa-gasa) were born at the San Diego Safari Park in July 2014, and are […]

A voter marks her ballot. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File) Baltimore is one step closer to re-certifying the Democratic and Republican primary elections held on April 28. The Maryland State Board of Elections released results of their review of the local election tally   this week and according to the report, 1188 provisional ballots were incorrectly scanned […]

The 142nd Preakness Stakes were held on May 21 at Pimlico race track.  Exaggerator defeated the previously unbeaten Nyquist.

Officer Edward Nero, center, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, leaves a courthouse after being acquitted of all charges in his trial in Baltimore, Monday, May 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) On May 23 Baltimore police officer Edward Nero walked into a downtown Baltimore City […]

Sean Yoes Earlier this week, when Officer Edward Nero, one of six officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray, was cleared of all charges many in the mainstream media seemed to be preparing for violence to erupt on the streets of Baltimore. In fact, I saw more than one cable network broadcast re-rack footage […]

ABC CEO Diane Bell-McKoy The Associated Black Charities (ABC) will pay tribute to several Maryland individuals and organizations who have taken steps towards increasing economic access and opportunity for all during its Black and White Gala on June 11 at Martin’s West. “The gala is an opportunity to lift up our agenda—which is particularly important […]

How the Clean Block campaign played out in the past. (AFRO file photo) The latest incarnation of the AFRO’s Clean Block will launch on June 4 with a press conference held in front of the Baltimore AFRO at 2519 N. Charles, Baltimore, Md. The AFRO’s Clean Block program began in 1934 as a way to […]

Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon won 170 of about 200 predominately Black Baltimore City precincts in a majority Black city, but lost her bid to regain the mayor’s chair by a little more than 2000 votes. Even as the Baltimore City Board of Elections works to officially certify April’s election results, riddled with irregularities and […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u After Officer Edward Nero was cleared of all charges in the death of Freddie Gray, what now? We’ll examine the path going forward as the five remaining trials play out, with D. Watkins, college professor and author of, “The Beast Side,” and, “The Cook Up,” Natasha Pratt Harris, associate professor […]