Category: Baltimore News

Baltimore Book Festival Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts announce the 20th anniversary of the Baltimore Book Festival, Sept. 25-Sept. 27, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Events take place on West Shore Park and Rash Field, along the 400 blocks of Light Street and […]

From 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 18 at all Greater Baltimore area McDonald’s locations, every student in Kindergarten through 8th Grade who visits McDonald’s with an adult will receive a free breakfast. The free breakfast will include an Egg McMuffin, Apple Slices and choice of Milk or Apple Juice.

Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh When Maryland State Senator Catherine Pugh and Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes entered the mayoral race on September 8, they entered an already crowded field. The two made their announcements in The Baltimore Sun. This is 65-year-old Pugh’s second run at the mayor’s office. In 2011, she lost to Stephanie Rawlings-Blake […]

Mai Sennaar’s play, The Fall of the Kings, is currently playing in New York. (Courtesy Photo) BALTIMORE – Baltimore native Mai Sennaar has been busy. On September 5, after over a year of rewrites and revisions, her new play will come to life for audiences in New York City. The Fall of the Kings is set […]

Members of the marching band New Edition perform at the annual Labor Day celebration at Baltimore’s Cloverdale. Baltimore’s Cloverdale neighborhood held its annual Labor Day Basketball Challenge with basketball, music and a strong sense of community. The event started off years ago as a simple basketball game between old and young members of the community […]

It was a volatile Labor Day weekend in reference to people vying to occupy the big chair at City Hall in 2016. Sean Yoes The entry of State Senator Catherine Pugh, who represents the 40th Legislative District of Baltimore City and Councilman Carl Stokes, who represents the 12th District of Baltimore, was one of the […]

Allegra Bennett (Photo credit: LinkedIn) Allegra Bennett, a Baltimore, Md. and Washington, D.C. mainstay, died at the age of 68 on Sept. 8. The cause of death was unavailable at press time. Bennett was a longtime reporter for The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Times, first covering crime and later becoming a columnist. She then […]

Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and DHCD Secretary Kenneth C. Holt announce the “Maryland Grand Slam in Baltimore City” initiative at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sept. 2. (Photo DHCD) On Sept. 2 Lt. Governor Boyd Rutherford along with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll discuss the substance and the ramifications of Baltimore’s $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray with veteran defense attorney A. Dwight Petit and the AFRO’s Roberto Alejandro. Plus, our regular contributors Alejandro and Taya Graham and Stephen Janis of The Real News Network talk politics and […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Less than 24 hours after news of his candidacy for Mayor of Baltimore was unofficially announced, we’ll interview Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes. And we’ll open the phone lines and ask the people of Baltimore who they want to be the next mayor; Stokes, Sen. Catherine Pugh, former Mayor […]

NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson’s next stop on his literacy crusade is Baltimore. In this May 3, 2006, file photo, author James Patterson contemplates a question during an interview at his home overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach, Fla. Patterson, who has donated millions to bookstores and libraries nationwide and formed his own […]

Marchers block the Pratt Street after a march to City Hall for Freddie Gray, Saturday, April 25, 2015 in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a police van. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) BALTIMORE (AP) — The city of Baltimore says it has reached a $6.4 million […]