Category: Baltimore News

(ACLU) American Civil Liberties Union Requiring law enforcement agencies to report data on civil asset forfeitures, reforming the law enforcement officers bill of right (LEOBR), and legalizing marijuana are all on Maryland’s  American Civil Liberties Union’s 2015 legislative agenda. “Civil asset forfeiture is rife with potential conflicts of interest,” explained Toni Holness, public policy associate […]

Former Baltimore County 9-1-1 dispatcher Kelli Murray. Murray resigned from her job on Jan. 6 after a Facebook post led to harassment and a call for her ouster by the local police union. (Courtesy Photo) Kelli Murray, the Baltimore County dispatcher whose Facebook post on the death of Michael Brown led to online harassment and […]

The events in Ferguson, Mo. raised questions along racial lines in current times, creating dialogue across the country. Over MLK Weekend 2015, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore convenes the public to continue the work towards solutions. Also, the museum presents a variety of kid-friendly and adult programs to inspire positive change and to […]

Two senior advisers who were serving in an interim capacity have been named to leadership posts at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore by President Juliette B. Bell. Stephen L. McDaniel Veteran fund-raiser Stephen L. McDaniel is Bell’s choice for vice president for institutional advancement, the office responsible for generating external funding and community support […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u With a new Republican controlled Congress coming in this week and a Republican governor headed to Annapolis, we engage national and local political round table discussions with political commentator Barry Rascovar, political consultant and commentator Catalina Byrd, Fox 45 investigative producer Stephen Janis, the AFRO’s Roberto Alejandro and Towson University […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u On this New Year’s Eve, we revisit a recent conversation on politics and policing in Baltimore. Earlier this month Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake suggested police here and across the nation may be hesitant when faced with harrowing, potentially deadly scenarios for fear of being labeled, `the next Darren […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u 2014 has been tragic, breathtaking and remarkable in many ways and we’ll review the biggest news stories of the year, from the deaths of unarmed Black males like, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and 12-year old Tamir Rice and the subsequent uprisings across the nation, to Larry Hogan’s stunning gubernatorial […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York among others, a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll illustrates an unsurprising racial divide in reference to how Americans view policing policies. We’ll examine the issue with our panel of […]

(Left) 19-year-old Hestina Harris and (right) her grandmother, 67-yr-old Lillie Morris. (Photos: Md State Police and Facebook) FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A 19-year-old woman charged with fatally stabbing her grandmother told police she saw a man in a ski mask and black hooded sweatshirt running from the house shortly after the attack, according to charging […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We look back at a powerful conversation we had on raising Black boys at a time when issues of race and police profiling command headlines. Attorney, author and commentator  Lawrence Otis Graham recently wrote that he was misguided in believing he could insulate his children from racism with an […]

A woman orders food from Baltimarket’s virtual supermarket at the Cherry Hill Library location in Baltimore. (Photo courtesy of Baltimore City Health Department) ANNAPOLIS—Food deserts are a significant issue in Maryland — but just how severe they are depends on whom you ask. Although the term has been in common use for years, there is […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u For this Christmas Eve we’re revisiting some of our favorite segments from the past few weeks. We begin with our conversation on the generational divide within the civil rights movement, manifesting specifically in the Black Lives Matter movement made evident during the recent National Action Network march in Washington, […]