Category: Baltimore News

31 year-old Jennifer Jeffrey-Browne, and her 7 year-old son Kester “Tony” Browne III. Kester Browne III and his mother Jennifer Jeffrey-Browne were both shot in the head and killed in late May in Southwest Baltimore. On a warm Monday evening, June 8, Kester’s classmates at Baltimore International Academy Elementary/Middle School gathered in the school’s auditorium […]

All registration(s) for the Summer Survival Basketball League will be completed in person at Bentalou Recreation Center, 222 N. Bentalou St.  Baltimore, MD 21223.  There will be three registration and initial introduction sessions.  These sessions broken down by age group 9 and under will be 6 p.m., June 12; 11 and under, 6 p.m., June […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll get a report on the latest from McKinney, Texas the sight of alleged brutality by a White police officer against Black teens at a pool party captured on video and viewed by more than seven million people. Plus, a roundup of Baltimore City Hall politics, with a look […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll discuss the latest passengers in the ever-burgeoning 2016 Presidential GOP Clown Car, former Texas Governor Rick Perry and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, with political commentators Catalina Byrd and Sean Breeze. Plus, the ACLU, some civil rights groups and churches are planning “Freedom Rides,” from Baltimore to Annapolis […]

Willie D. Larkin, named as the ninth president of Grambling State University. The Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana (UL) System named Willie D. Larkin, chief of staff to the president of Morgan State University, as the ninth president of Grambling State University June 5. “The Board was looking for a visionary leader […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro shares his recent interactions with young Black men in McElderry Park in East Baltimore and Sandtown Winchester in West Baltimore, as the city continues to grapple with the root causes of last April’s uprising. Plus, Alejandro and our other regular contributors Stephen Janis, of the […]

The NAACP is among three groups that will receive portions of the proceeds from Prince’s Rally 4 Peace concert, held in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death and the resulting turbulence. At the surprise event held May 10 at Royal Farms Arena, concert-goers were asked to wear gray in support of Gray, who died April […]

Parents, children, and representatives from a Baltimore enrichment program gathered May 21 at Morgan State University to celebrate their achievements. They also called on Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for more funds. “People saw and celebrated what happens with young people when you invest in them,” Child First Authority’s Executive Director Carol Reckling said about the event. […]

Melanie Townsend Diggs (left), manager of the Enoch Pratt Library Pennsylvania Avenue Branch, with Carla D. Hayden, CEO Enoch Pratt Free Library. (AFRO/Photo by Kamau High) When the riots began in Baltimore on April 27 following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Melanie Townsend Diggs, manager of the Enoch Pratt Library branch at […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We take a look at the shooting death of 26-year old Usaama Rahim by Boston police earlier this week. Some argue the response by police — sharing video footage of the shooting with community leaders — could be a powerful precedent for transparency in law enforcement. We’ll talk to […]

A growing movement to ban the sale of flavored tobacco near schools has now come to Baltimore. Representatives from Baltimore’s schools, Baltimore’s Health Department and the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council held an event, May 28, at Edmondson-Westside High School on how to keep young people from picking up the habit of smoking.  The […]