Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

City Councilman Nick Mosby, District 7, introduced a bill seeking to speed up the use of body cameras by police. In May, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the police would have body cameras by the end of the year. On Monday City Councilman Nick Mosby, District 7, introduced a bill seeking to speed up that […]

For elders within Baltimore’s Black community, the recent uprising after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray was like a flashback to the riots that erupted in April 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Both were birthed from tragic events involving the deaths of an African-American man and both represented […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u All kids — regardless of income level — in Baltimore City Schools will be able to receive free lunch and breakfast, a “great equalizer” for poor kids in the minds of many child advocates. We’ll talk to Delegate Keith Haynes, of District 44A Baltimore City, the chief sponsor of […]

Continuing to stimulate new investment and job creation with the use of development opportunities, the Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC), on behalf of the City of Baltimore, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purchase and redevelopment of city-owned properties on S. Gay Street and a surface parking lot on S. Frederick Street in […]

Police tape is one of the few resources McElderry Park receives regularly from the city, which the East Baltimore neighborhood has found a less than willing partner in its efforts to improve the lot of its residents. Crossing signals disappear from intersections as one approaches the East Baltimore neighborhood of McElderry Park, whether from the […]

Dr. Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes. (Photo www.umes.edu) Dr. Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes, the first female president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, died June 1, the university announced. She was 78. Spikes, a trailblazer throughout her lifetime, was born Aug. 24, 1936 in Baton Rouge, La. Her parents’ high value on education rubbed off […]