Category: Baltimore News

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll have a full report from our producers who were on the scene at this weekend’s march in Washington D.C. protesting police brutality. We’ll also discuss the next steps for the Black community, all communities of color and the poor. If we are going to utilize economic leverage (boycotts) […]

Sen. Joan Conway details 2015 agenda issues before the ministers, community members, and politicians gathered for the Baptist Ministers Conference annual legislative breakfast. (AFRO Photo/Roberto Alejandro) Sustained community engagement in Annapolis, decreases in the number of schools to be built under Baltimore’s 21st Century Building program, and the unlikelihood of a statewide police body camera […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Yet another allegation of sexual abuse has been leveled at iconic comedian Bill Cosby; this time it comes from legendary supermodel Beverly Johnson. How will the story from Johnson — a somewhat unassailable figure in some minds — affect the case against Cosby? Could the disgraced comedian actually face […]

The guest speaker at the 34th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast will be Katherine Hernandez Marroquin. Ticket sales are underway for the 34th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast,  Jan. 19, at Anne Arundel Community College. For the first time, this year’s guest speaker is a middle school student, Katherine […]

Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Challenging the strength of the state’s “Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights.” The Maryland Court of Appeals recently handed down a decision to hear the case of a woman of color denigrated by a racial slur by a Maryland State Police trooper. The complete records of the case had […]

No Baltimore holiday season is complete without the Kennedy Krieger Festival of Trees held annually at the Timonium Fairgrounds.

Union Square Christmas Cookie Tour (Facebook Photo/Credit: Roger Miller) Union Square has what it thinks is the perfect way to kick off the holiday season:  delicious cookies, overflowing Christmas decorations, idyllic turn of the 20th century homes – all to be found on their 29th Annual Cookie Tour. This year’s event will take place on Dec. 14. […]

CCBC Cybersecurity Institute. (Courtesy Photo) On Dec. 3, CCBC unveiled its new Cybersecurity Institute, a $1.5 million project that includes expanded classroom space, additional equipment and an online infrastructure that allows for more students in the Cybersecurity program. The Cybersecurity Institute is based on the Essex campus and gives students hands-on experience through the use […]

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, […]