Category: Baltimore News

Medine Kande, Francuna Smith and Emon Washington will present the senior project collaboration of SHE is, 6 p.m., April 25 in the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center.  The production gives a face and name to all women, about life through artistic expression. It seeks to empower and uplift people. It is free admission. For […]

Please Join Morgan State University, in partnership with the African American Policy Forum, for the next National Town Hall Meeting on Women and Girls of Color , 12 p.m., April 25, at  Morgan State University Student Theater, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore. Contact Anika Simpson anika.simpson@morgan.edu for more information.

The Symposium will be held, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., April 25, at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) and will feature guest speaker, author, Dr. LaMarr Darnell Shields and a host of others who will help moderate discussions on topics including: Boyhood to manhood, Emotional intelligence, What to do if stopped by the […]

The National Aquarium announced the launch of Half-Price Friday Nights, an evolution of the long-standing and popular Fridays After Five program that will now provide visitors half off admission pricing year-round on Friday evenings after 5 p.m. As part of its continuing effort to ensure that visitors have affordable access to one of the country’s top aquariums, the National Aquarium offers numerous […]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen will be holding the second community forum for the Heroin Treatment and Prevention Taskforce, 6:30 to 9 p.m., April 23, at East Baltimore Development, 1731 E. Chase Street. The taskforce was convened last fall by Mayor Rawlings-Blake to address the critical problem of opioid addiction. Its goal was to study […]

Kingdom Celebration center is open every Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m . to feed the hungry. The center is located at 1350 Blair Drive, suite H, Odenton, Maryland 21133. Open to all Anne Arundel County Residents. Contact 410-672-2003 for more information.

The SHARE Food Network marked 25 years of providing healthy and affordable food to the local community the only way it knew how – by eating delicious cake in a warehouse full of vegetables. Several hundred volunteers and local community leaders gathered at the Hyattsville warehouse to celebrate the program, which has provided affordable groceries to tens of thousands of families […]

The recently concluded 2015 legislative session was notable both for the  bills that passed (expanded felon voting rights, the Maryland Second Chance Act) and those that did not (law enforcement officers bill of rights reform). The AFRO has covered many of these bills over the course of these past three months, but below are some of the […]

Roshé Anthony, owner and director of the BEAT School of Makeup Artistry as well as founder of the Roshé Cosmetics line. (AFRO/Photo Roberto Alejandro) Anyone looking to enter the field of makeup artistry, or simply on the market for some great cosmetics, may want to look up Roshé Anthony. Anthony is the owner and director of the BEAT, or Beauty […]

Students and faculty members are getting ready for their upcoming fundraiser. (Photo by D’ana Downing) Ask Sister Debra Liesen, principal of the Sisters Academy of Baltimore, what it’s like to be in charge of a school full of teens and pre-teens and she begins to laugh. “Drama!” she said. “We call them our drama mamas.” […]