Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream:  http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u A review of some of the week’s top news stories directly from the pages of the AFRO, with managing editor Kamau High. Plus, this evening’s guest hosts, The Mod Squad, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of The Real News Network, report on local politics and law enforcement. These stories […]

Walter Reap Sr. will become the second principal of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, an independent Catholic middle school dedicated to the education of boys and girls from low-income families in Baltimore. (Courtesy photo) Walter D. Reap Sr., an award-winning and experienced leader in education, was appointed the new principal of Cristo Rey Jesuit High […]

A student receives his new glasses, free of charge, at one of Vision To Learn’s events. (Courtesy photo) Vision To Learn’, a non-profit that provides free eye exams and free eyeglasses to students in low-income communities, will host its first ever Baltimore event at Hampstead Hill Academy at 2:30 p.m. on May 10. Sixty students […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll talk about what many characterize as the abrupt dismissal of Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Gregory Thornton. Also, a conversation with Kristefer Burnett, the newly elected City Council member representing the 8th District. These stories and much more, coming up this evening on AFRO’s First Edition with Sean Yoes.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, left, with Sen. Catherine Pugh, D-Baltimore, the day after the Baltimore primary. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Catherine Pugh is planning for Baltimore’s future.  Even as Sheila Dixon, Pugh’s primary opponent in the Mayoral race publicly weighs her options for contesting the results of the April 26th Democratic election, Pugh is reaching out […]

Sean Yoes The Center Stage Production of, “Detroit 67,” which is playing at the theater’s temporary home (while the Calvert Street location is being renovated) at Towson University until May 8, chronicles a Detroit family’s struggle for survival during the 1960’s, perhaps the most turbulent era in American history. Detroit in the 1960’s was one […]

Baltimore election officials have begun counting around 7,600 provisional ballots from the Baltimore primary election on April 26. Pugh won the primary with 47,371 votes, compared to former Mayor Sheila Dixon’s 44,352 votes. Voters Organized for the Integrity of City Elections (VOICE), an organization composed of Baltimore City activist, leaders, and voters, called on Gov. […]

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Gregory Thorton is being replaced by Sonja Santelises. (Courtesy photos) The Baltimore school board is replacing the chief executive officer of the city’s schools with an administrator who oversaw academic performance improvements during a previous stint with city schools Sonja Santelises will replace CEO Gregory Thornton, who steps down on […]

Former NFL defensive lineman David Carter, far left, members of Vegan Outreach, center, and Naijha Wright- Brown, far right, one of the owners of Land of Kush restaurant. In the North West district of Baltimore at the top of Park Heights avenue, where the predominately Black community meets the predominately Jewish community sits the Northwestern […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Texas S e n. Ted Cruz a n d Ohio Gov. John Kasich have both dropped out of the   race for the GOP nomination for president, leaving Donald Trump as the Republican standard bearer and presumptive nominee. We’ll get analysis from two Republican commentators, Towson University professor Tony Campbell […]

Morgan State University’s picturesque campus was named a national treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. (Courtesy photo) Morgan State University, on May 3, was named a national treasure, a designation that aims to provide the school with funds to preserve the institution’s storied buildings. The HBCU was named a National Treasure by the […]