Category: Baltimore News

Iconic comedian Bill Cosby’s legacy and career seem to be crumbling in the wake of rape allegations from multiple women that have resurfaced over the last few weeks, that go back as far as the 1960s. We’ll examine the perpetuation of violence and sexual assault against women in the popular culture and we’ll remember Cosby’s groundbreaking […]

Employees of Brantley Security marching around the Katyn Massacre Monument in Harbor East. (AFRO/Photo by Roberto Alejandro) Security guards fighting for their right to organize went on strike in Harbor East to protest what they said were unfair labor practices by their employer, Brantley Security. Arbitrary disciplinary actions on the job, refusal to recognize the […]

Baltimore City’s body camera work group listens to a presentation from Officer Aaron Waddell of the Laurel Police Department. (AFRO/Photo by Roberto Alejandro) Equipping Baltimore’s police force with body cameras would cost approximately $5 million in the first year, according to initial estimates. The city’s work group on police-worn body cameras is currently working to […]

Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Festival of Trees, now in its 25th year, is easily the largest of its kind on the East Coast and annually creates a kind of wonderland that people from near and far can hardly resist. The holiday fantasyland returns Nov. 28-30 to the Maryland State Fairgrounds with fairyland forests, gingerbread towns, holiday […]

PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Nov. 17, 2014) – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is a co-winner of the “1890 University of the Year” award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. UMES and North Carolina A&T State University shared the honor awarded by the association’s Council of 1890 Universities.  It recognizes best overall […]

Ronald Lee, vice president, left, Kristin Clarkson, recording secretary; Erica Williams, president; Charline Jacob, corresponding secretary; Candis Milbourne, parliamentarian and Sidney Green, chaplain. (Courtesy Photo) In keeping with a more than 10-year tradition, the Dillard University Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Alumni Association hosted its annual Scholarship Jazz Brunch Nov.1. Family, friends, and other supporters joined […]

A Baltimore man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Nov. 17 for throwing hot water on his roommate over a dispute regarding breakfast sausages, according to the Baltimore City State’s Attorney Office. Donte Frye, 39, was convicted June 11, 2014, for the incident that took place in April of the previous year at a […]

A Launch Party celebration was held, Oct. 23, at the School of Global Journalism at Morgan State University to welcome talk show host Sean Yoes and the very popular First Edition to the afternoon drive. First Edition, that had previously been broadcast one day a week on WEAA FM 88.9, has now been extended to […]

What is being described as a “killer batch” of heroin is cutting a deadly path through Maryland, claiming dozens of lives. We’ll talk about the decades-long battle against heroin addiction in Baltimore with Israel Cason, founder of “I Can’t, We Can,” an addiction recovery program; Baltimore AFRO reporter Roberto Alejandro and Fox 45 investigative producer […]

Tenyo Pearl, left, Carl Bull, Maurice Hines, Joseph Spellman, Lucas Hines, Alfred Griffen, Glaci Hines and Ellis G. Brown Jr. The Baltimore Area Council, BSA held a town hall meeting at Coppin State University, Nov. 13, in partnership with the CSU Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and Morgan State University’s Morgan Community Mile Initiative to discuss the […]

A Wells Fargo volunteer gives a presentation. A group of 65 Baltimore teenagers met Nov. 1 at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) to prepare themselves for college and career. The students, all Leadership Fellows in the Greater Baltimore Urban League’s Saturday Leadership Program, forgo an opportunity to sleep in on a Saturday to […]

The World Berries International Sisterhood Open House and Interest Meeting will be held 6 p.m., Nov. 22 at the Grind House Juice Bar, 2431 St. Paul Street in Baltimore. World Berries is a mentoring and rites of passage program for girls 6-13. For additional information visit worldberries.org or call Mama Ngina at 443-857-0352.