Category: Baltimore News

Local jazz great, John Lamkin and his quintet are performing at Grace Presbyterian Church on June 27 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Donations are $25.00 adults; $10.00 for children under 12years and younger. Call 410.466.4000 for more information.

Zion and Oliver Community Outreach is hosting its annual day of food, fun and fellowship on June 27 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the corners of Caroline and Lanvale streets. . The parade will kick off at 11 a.m. at the corners of Caroline and Eager streets. This is an free event. Volunteers, […]

(Photo by Michael Davenport) A camper at Druid Hill Park Pool perfects his cannonball as the summer starts. 

Audience members, made up predominantly of law enforcement, listen to testimony before the Public Safety and Policing Workgroup in Annapolis on June 23. The Lt. Col. from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office had come armed with notes and a Powerpoint presentation, prepared to discuss hiring and recruitment policies before the Public Safety and Policing Workgroup […]

You cannot decouple crime from its link to economics. With Aim to B’More, Baltimore City’s state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby is looking to provide a pathway out of the criminal justice system for first-time, non-violent drug offenders. Aim to B’More is a diversionary program that targets first-time, non-violent offenders and offers them a chance at a […]

Baltimore area leaders are moving to address Maryland’s use and endorsement of Confederate symbols in the aftermath of the racially motivated shooting that left nine dead at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, the oldest Black AME church in the south. On Monday (June 22), Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called on the state […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll talk to Dr. Boyce Watkins of, “Your Black World,” and get his thoughts on the massacre at Mother Emmanuel AME and the aftermath. And we’ll talk to Watkins about his new movie, “Resurrecting Black Wall Street.” Plus, we’ll speak with Morgan State University professor, Lawrence Brown about his recent […]

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks during a news conference about his cancer diagnoses in Annapolis, Md., Monday, June 22, 2015. Hogan has “very advanced” and “very aggressive” cancer of the lymph nodes, but he said Monday he will continue to work as the state’s chief elected official. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll talk GOP presidential campaign politics, the Confederate flag and White supremacist campaign contributions with political commentators Catalina Byrd and Sean Breeze. Plus, how will racial politics translate to the 2016 race for mayor in Baltimore? It’s all coming up this evening on AFRO’s First Edition with Sean Yoes.

A Baltimore-based company that provides staffing for federal contractors allegedly hired Hispanic construction laborers then created and helped to foster hostile working conditions for those workers, according to a lawsuit filed recently by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). WMS Solutions LLC intimidated and discriminated against its Hispanic construction […]