Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u When the Chicago White Sox recently played a four game series with the Orioles in Baltimore, a Chicago media personality decided to tweet out an incredibly distasteful “joke” referencing the death of Freddie Gray. The reaction from social media (including me) was swift and decisive. In this age of […]

On May 7 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, the Baltimore City Branch NAACP will host its annual prayer breakfast at the Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue, Baltimore, MD. For more information call Joe Aston at 443-22-9459 or email joeaston1@hotmail.com.

In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, Ray Anthony Lewis III, left, and his father, former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis Jr., chat after his national signing day ceremony in the Lake Mary Prep auditorium in Lake Mary, Fla. Lewis III, a Coastal Carolina defensive back, is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. An arrest […]

Principal Kelvin Bridges, My Brother’s Keeper task force Chair Broderick Johnson, chef Kwame Onwuachi, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Dr. Joe Leonard, USDA. United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visited Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School in Baltimore to announce a new online toolkit aimed at aiding urban farmers in growing and marketing […]

An artists’ rendering of what Port Covington would look like after development. (Courtesy Image/Sagamore Development) At a rally on April 28, Baltimore City community leaders, activists, and labor leaders demanded that city officials delay an upcoming vote on the Port Covington tax-increment financing (TIF) plan. The rally was held to protest the proposal by Sagamore […]

The Baltimore Teacher Network hosted a forum at Booker T. Washington Middle School on April 27 for city teachers on the increase of violence in city schools. The Baltimore Teacher Network is a non-profit organization that advocates for public school teachers. The forum was a chance for teachers to explain problems with students and devise […]

A Baltimore police officer shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy after spotting him with a Daisy Powerline 340 BB gun, pictured right. sen Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Baltimore. At a news conference police displayed the BB gun, right, next to a semi-automatic handgun, pictured left, to show how similar the models look. Commissioner Kevin […]

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. Plus, The Mod Squad, Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of The Real News Network report on politics and law enforcement. It’s all coming up this […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u In wake of the results of Maryland’s controversial U.S. Senate race, we want to have a discussion about Black political power within Maryland’s Democratic Party. Was Donna Edwards treated fairly and is the Black vote taken for granted by the Dems? We’ll ask our experts and you our listeners….410.319.8888. It’s […]

The AFRO asked young people who were affected by the events of one year ago to talk about what they saw and how it made them feel. Angel Burton, 17 Angel Burton, 17 “My principal made an announcement and said go straight home,” recalls 17-year-old Angel Burton, a high school senior in Baltimore, when asked […]

The replica pistol police say a 13-year-old was holding when he was shot. (Photo/Baltimore Police Department) Baltimore Police say an officer shot and wounded a 13-year-old who refused to drop a BB gun that was a replica of a semiautomatic pistol. Commissioner Kevin Davis said at a news conference April 27 near the scene in […]

By Dameon Byrd Jr., Special to the AFRO Malaika Aminata, a Morgan State University graduate who has lived in Baltimore for the majority of her adult life, wanted the world to see what they were not being shown about Baltimore in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death last April and the subsequent uprising. “We all know […]