Category: Baltimore News

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently announced that it would be selecting five high school students from the Greater Baltimore Area to participate in an eight-week paid summer internship at a local non-profit through its student leader program. In Baltimore the unemployment rate for those ages 16-24 remains at a record high of 19.4 […]

(Screenshot from a YouTube video) The long-faded sign proclaimed the store’s fares—liquor and lottery. On April 27, however, the establishment on the corner of North and N. Fulton avenues resembled an ants’ nest—looters swarming in and out of the dark, yawning opening, toting pilfered goods away. Hours later—after the burial of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old […]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake poses with some of the participants of the “Minority Male Makers” program. (Courtesy Photo) Often young Black boys are underrepresented in the science and technology fields. According to the most recent data from the National Science Foundation, Blacks hold only 4.6 percent of the jobs in the science and engineering fields. Seeking […]

Loretta Lynch, U.S. attorney general, announced in May that the Department of Justice was investigating the record of the Baltimore Police Department. When Tawanda Jones was contacted by a lawyer from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, she was anxious to tell her story about how officers from the Baltimore City Police Department and Morgan […]

Former Police Commissioner Anthony Batts. (AP Photo) “Changing the police department to the future Baltimore Police Department, that we have the opportunity to obtain, is going to take time. We’re on the road, we’re making those changes, we’re going in the right direction, and it doesn’t matter whether Tony Batts is here or not, change […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll dissect the details of the historic Iran nuclear deal with an expert on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Plus, we ask our listeners to reveal their thoughts on the ubiquitous homicide rate. Is City Hall doing enough and what is the role of the vast majority of Baltimore […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u With 163 homicides and counting in 2015, Baltimore’s law enforcement leaders have announced a new strategy, allegedly connecting various agencies to combat the spike in murders. To some it sounds like a re-packaging of failed policing policies. We’ll discuss an analyze the new plan with law enforcement experts. Plus, […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We continue to report on the fallout from the firing of former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, including thoughts on the man who will replace him for now, interim commissioner Kevin Davis, with our regulars AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro, as well as Stephen Janis and Taya Graham of The […]

The historically Black Coppin State University and the University of Baltimore have formed a partnership to boost educational opportunities for their students in fields related to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, the institutions recently announced. With STEM-related fields accounting for a growing percentage of jobs in the United States, the partnership can create […]

Interim Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks alongside Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at a news conference, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Baltimore, after Rawlings-Blake announced her firing of Commissioner Anthony Batts. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s next police commissioner will have a daunting to-do list: quell a surge in homicides, rebuild trust between […]

At a July 8 event put on by the Baltimore City and County Chambers of Commerce St. Louis Regional Chamber President and CEO Joe Reagan, spoke about the unrest and problems in Ferguson, plans and programs put in place to fix the trouble within the community and the effect these programs have had on the […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We engage a round table discussion of experts on the ouster of Anthony Batts as police commissioner. What does it mean for Baltimore and how does it effect the effort to create significant law enforcement reform? Plus, thoughts on the city’s homicide rate, which hovers above the murder rates […]