Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u The release of the Senate’s CIA “Torture Report” has sent shock waves through the American intelligence community and around the world. We’ll analyze the findings and provide a critical historical context with homeland security expert, Dr. Tyrone Powers. Plus, we’ll talk about the city’s proposal to close several schools […]

Del. Curt Anderson of Baltimore’s 43rd District, Chair of the Baltimore City Delegation to Maryland’s House of Delegates. Giving the recommendations of the civilian review board more teeth, and fighting to ensure that Baltimore’s education funding levels do not take a hard hit in light of the state’s budget shortfalls are some of the key […]

Dayvon Love, director of research and public policy for Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), speaks on the importance of community involvement in the legislative process at LBS’s recent Black Legislative Agenda Day. In a country where Black, college educated men with no criminal records are less likely to receive call backs for jobs than […]

On hand for the presentation are Council person Mary Pat Clarke, Marsha Turner, Brenda Maple, Frank Ross, Frances Thomas, Anthony Jones, Leslie Mallory, Lewis Neal, Council President Bernard “Jack” Young, Linda Allen, and Al Johnson. Baltimore City Council presented a resolution to Lewis Neal and a few other representatives of the Hand Dance community, Dec. 4, […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u In Baltimore no city agency — except for the Department of Recreation and Parks — has been audited for at least 25 years. But, that will change in 2015 when five agencies; police, public works, transportation, finance, as well as recreation and parks will be audited and a preliminary […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com:4020/live.m3u What will be the plight of the once moribund billion-dollar State Center Project in West Baltimore under the eminent gubernatorial administration of Larry Hogan? We’ll talk about the plight of State Center, Maryland’s GOP convention over the weekend in Turf Valley and other topics during our political round table […]

(Revised 12/7/2014) Mrs. Santa and the AFRO Charities have been serving those in need during the holidays for over 50 years. This important legacy continues as Mrs. Santa looks to collect toys, food, clothing and financial donations to aid the effort to make the holidays a joyful experience for all of Baltimore’s families. “We try […]

A Baltimore Department of Public Works notice on city letterhead promoting home water pipe insurance from a private company left some homeowners thinking they were being mandated by the city to purchase insurance from the company. But DPW Director Rudolph Chow said there is no such mandate. Rather, the city went through a vetting process […]

Baltimore Police Commissioner discusses his views on body cameras before Baltimore City’s work group on body camera implementation on Dec. 1. (AFRO PHOTO/R.Alejandro) Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said he was “very supportive” of body cameras and that he would like to see them phased into his department over time. Batts laid out his thoughts […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com:4020/live.m3u Despite today’s news of more than 300,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy, millions of low-wage American workers continue to struggle to make ends meet. Yesterday, fast food workers demonstrated across the nation in an effort to unionize and increase their pay. We’ll talk about the plight of […]

New Penguin Chicks. (Photo – Screenshot from Maryland Zoo/YouTube video) BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is happy to announce the hatching of two African penguin chicks – the first to be hatched at the Zoo’s new Penguin Coast exhibit!   “We hoped that moving the penguin colony in the beginning of breeding season […]

Demonstrators marching up N. Charles St. (Updated 12/5/2014) Baltimore demonstrators protesting the non-indictment in the    killing of Eric Garner by the NYPD marched from McKeldin Square to the Washington Monument, holding  up  traffic and disrupting a lighting ceremony and outdoor concert taking place near the statue. Police followed the demonstrators and directed traffic around […]