Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

Leo Burroughs, founder and president of Roots of Scouting, Inc., addresses the crowd at their recent 35th Anniversary African Heritage Awards Luncheon. (AFRO Photo/Roberto Alejandro) Roots of Scouting, Inc., an organization of Baltimore-area Boy Scout troops which seeks to develop leaders in the African-American community, recently marked its 35th anniversary at an awards luncheon. The […]

The members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Rho Xi Omega Chapter and the Cultured Pearls of Service will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of their international program A.S.C.E.N.D. The signature program is designed to support high school students in five areas: Achievement, Self-Awareness, Communication, Engagement, Networking and Development. The ceremony […]

The Patapsco River Chapter of the Links is hosting a luncheon at Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road, Windsor Mill, Md. on March 28 from 12 p.m. to 4pm. This year’s honorees are Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, president of UMBC, and Senator Delores Kelley, District 10.

From now until April 1, The Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Baltimore Orioles are sponsoring the Tom Clancy Reading Club. Children from birth through fifth grade can register any Pratt Library location in Baltimore. For more information on the Tom Clancy Reading Club, visit www.prattlibary.org.