Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We focus on the embattled town of Ferguson, Missouri. Two police officers were shot last night, as the city endures significant upheaval including the resignation of it’s police chief and several city officials in the wake of the Department of Justice’s scathing report. Plus, we examine efforts at political mobilization […]

The Baltimore Humane Society’s Black Tie & Tails Gala is 6 p.m., March 28 at the Grand Lodge, 304 International Circle, Hunt Valley, Md. The formal affair includes well behaved animals who can attend free. Tickets are $125 per person until March 13. The price goes up to $149. Tickets can be purchase by calling […]

Visions dancers embrace the “each one teach one” philosophy. (Courtesy Photo) Deborah Stewart-Akles has been involved with dance all her life. She started at age 7, at the Marie Allen Watts School of Dance. By age 15, she began training to teach, often teaching her peers and younger students during her free time. Fifteen years […]

The Perfume Chick Galleria, CEO LaShawn Lindsey. (Courtesy Photo) When you think of Suitland, Md., you think of grabbing a bite to eat, going to the nearest metro, or running errands from store-to-store. Would you think of going to a store selling natural products? The Perfume Chick Galleria is just that. Its products are for […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u In wake of the ongoing fallout from the now disbanded racist Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at Oklahoma University, we examine the attitudes of White Millennials. Plus, Baltimore City politics with AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro and First Edition regulars, Stephen Janis and Taya Graham. It’s all coming up this […]

Maryland could soon see a stronger marijuana decriminalization law. It seems well on the path to outright legalization (though perhaps not this session), if the tone of last week’s Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing on a slate of marijuana bills is any indication. Senate Bill 456 establishes medical necessity as an affirmative defense against a […]

Jazz legend and Baltimore native Billie Holiday. (Courtesy Photo) An event highlighting the life and work of jazz legend and Baltimore native Billie Holiday, from 5:30-8 p.m. April 7, will commemorate what would have been her 100th birthday. The presentation and activities will be held at the Leonard E. Hicks Multipurpose Community Center, located at […]

Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, giving her annual State of the City Address. (Photo courtesy of baltimorecity.gov) Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, in her annual State of the City Address, on March 9 speech, she touted sharp decreases in Baltimore’s unemployment rate, more businesses moving into or staying in the area, decreases in the homicide rate, and […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake delivered her State of the City address and we’ll have analysis with our experts. Plus, we’ll get an update on the 2015 legislative session in Annapolis with Dayvon Love, of the political think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and Pastor Heber Brown of Pleasant […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We reflect on this passed weekend’s events commemorating the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, including the substance of perhaps the most powerful speech of President Obama’s political career. Plus, we’ll report on the death of yet another unarmed Black […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u A conversation with 41st District Baltimore City Delegate Jill Carter on her 2015 legislative agenda and that of the Baltimore City Delegation. We’ll also have a review of the week’s top stories from the pages of the Baltimore AFRO American with AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro. Plus, a review of […]