Category: Baltimore News

Howard County Housing will hold its free 4th annual Housing Matters Mini fair on Sept. 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ascend One Building’s Howard County Public School conference center, 8930 Standford Blvd, Columbia, Md. 21045. The event will feature education sessions and one on one meetings with industry experts. For information […]

Calvin Young III during an interview at The AFRO. (Photo Credit: A.R. Ward) Mayoral candidate Calvin Young III believes that he has what it takes to unify Baltimore. During a sit-down interview with The Afro, the 27-year-old engineer and Harvard grad said that the city is at a crossroads, and the new energy he would […]

Sean Yoes Even as Baltimore continued to digest the news that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will not seek re-election in 2016, the city was hit with another political bombshell on Sept. 14 when Empowerment Temple Pastor Jamal Bryant announced his bid to replace U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, who represents the venerable Seventh Congressional District of Maryland. […]

D. Watkins book describes a Baltimore that isn’t usually written about. (Photo Credit: Lisa Snowden-McCray) In his essay, “Stoop Stories”, D. Watkins writes about a time where he crossed over from one Baltimore to another. He had been invited to Center Stage, to a fancy storytelling event. Seeing the other participants dressed up in their […]

Volunteers clean up the CVS following the unrest in April. (Photo by Kamau High) Raymon Carter, age 24, pleaded guilty on Sept. 16 to the federal crime of rioting on April 27, including the arson of the now infamous Baltimore CVS that was at the center of the unrest after the death of Freddie Gray […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u A preview of the second GOP debate tonight in Semi Valley, California at the Reagan Library with two Republican commentators; Tony Campbell, political science professor at Towson University and Lenny McCallister, host of Night Talk: Get to the Point. Plus, our regular contributors Roberto Alejandro of the AFRO and […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u As we commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama church and the murder of four little Black girls we engage a discussion on increased violence against women of color in 2015. Plus, a discussion with 41st Delegate Jill Carter business contracting for people of […]

House Select Committee on Benghazi ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) In response to speculation about whether he would vie for retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s Maryland seat, Rep. Elijah Cummings released a statement ahead of a speaking engagement at Coppin […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u National politics with Byrd and Breeze, that is political commentators Catalina Byrd and Sean Breeze on Donald Trump and Ben Carson pulling away from the rest of the GOP field and Hillary Clinton’s collapsing poll numbers. Also, in local politics we focus on Pastor Jamal Bryant’s campaign to unseat […]

Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant The Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, a well-known Baltimore pastor, announced on Sept. 14 that he would run for Rep. Elijah Cummings 7th District seat. Bryant, the pastor of the Empowerment Temple Church in West Baltimore, stood on Eutaw Place and talked of his plans for Congress. With people standing around him, […]

PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy in Maryland has been charged with assault after police say he grabbed a fellow eighth grader and kissed her. Administrators at Pikesville Middle School notified the school resource officer of the incident on Wednesday morning. Baltimore County Police say the 14-year-old girl told the officer the boy grabbed […]

Rev. Jamal Bryant Signs have emerged that suggest Pastor Jamal H. Bryant, a Baltimore fixture and pastor of the Empowerment Temple Church in West Baltimore, may be considering making a run for Rep. Elijah Cummings’ congressional seat. When asked if Bryant was mounting a campaign for the Cummings seat, which has been occupied by the […]