Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Baltimore is reeling from 43 homicides in May, which made last month the deadliest in the city in the last 40 years. And the vast majority of those murder victims were Black. Tonight we discuss the “Black Lives Matter,” movement. Should it become more comprehensive to include all Black lives […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u An analysis of Martin O’Malley’s 2016 bid for the White House with political commentators Catalina Byrd and Sean Breeze. Plus, a dialogue about O’Malley’s years as Baltimore mayor with his supporters and veteran journalists who covered him from the late 90’s to the mid 2000’s.  It’s all coming up […]

In the shadow of buildings recently the objects of protest against perceived misuses of municipal power, several hundred people gathered Saturday for the fourth annual People’s BBQ for the Homeless. And social media had a lot to do with it. Denise McNeil, a caterer who likes to meet new people, saw Bonnie Lane’s announcement on […]

(Left) A Baltimore Police officer speaks to a family member, where a young boy and a 31-year-old woman were shot and killed, Thursday, May 28, 2015, in Baltimore. (Right) A Baltimore Police officer follows a man, who screamed “Let me in! I’m going in!” before crossing the yellow tape and walking into the crime scene […]

Democratic presidential candidate, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, speaks to supporters at his campaign headquarters, Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley entered the Democratic presidential race on Saturday in a long shot challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the 2016 nomination, […]

Gov. Larry Hogan, who is on a trip to South Korea, participated in the signing of a memorandum of cooperation with the South Korean Small and Medium Business Administration. (Courtesy of the Governor’s Office) The delegation accompanying Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on his trade mission to Asia includes no Black-owned firms nor HBCU leaders, according […]

Del. Cory McCray (D-Baltimore City, second from left) listens as Andrew Bertamini, Maryland regional president for Wells Fargo bank speaks at a recent gathering of business and community leaders to discuss ways to collaborate and help McCray’s 45th legislative district. Members of the business and non-profit sectors came together recently in east Baltimore to discuss […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We review the news of the week from the pages of the Baltimore AFRO American newspaper as told through the eyes AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro. Plus, we report on the ongoing saga of Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and his relationship with the Fraternal Order of Police with Alejandro […]

(Left) Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford and the Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant (right). (Courtesy Photos) Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford has taken the Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant to task over the latter’s criticism of a $30 million youth detention facility slated for Baltimore City. Rutherford’s comments came in a May 27 appearance on WBAL 1090 […]

A Baltimore Police officer follows a man, who screamed “Let me in! I’m going in!” before crossing the yellow tape and walking into the crime scene on the 100 block of Upmanor Road, in Baltimore, where a young boy and a 31-year-old woman were shot and killed, Thursday, May 28, 2015. In the month since […]

In this Saturday, May 2, 2015 file photo, protesters march through Baltimore the day after charges were announced against the police officers involved in Freddie Gray’s death. Attorneys for six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are asking a judge to move their case out of Baltimore, arguing it will be […]

Last Saturday, a sunny and mild day, 25-30 people gathered at the Gilmore Homes, where Freddie Gray grew up. As youth held up anti-violence posters and listened to pastor Rodney Hudson, members of his  Ames Memorial United Methodist Church got the assembled marchers ready to go as another group arrived on the scene. While Hudson’s […]