Category: Baltimore News

Morgan State University was recently awarded a $23.3 million competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will go towards developing new approaches to engage researchers, with an eye to attracting more minority students to biomedical fields. “While past efforts to diversify our workforce have had significant impact on individuals, we have not […]

Where should a police body camera be worn? How will the data be stored and who will have access to it? How many cameras will a department need beyond the number officers will wear in the field, in case of damaged equipment? Who’s going to pay for all this? The first meeting of the state’s […]

An error message on the housing voucher waiting list online application on Oct. 22. (Screenshot by Guy Valerie Bosworth) A waiting list for Baltimore’s Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly Section 8) had 6,500 applicants within 30 minutes of the application going live online. By noon of the second day, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City […]

Sen. Benjamin Cardin and Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., during the early morning press conference. (Courtesy Photo) The Maryland Democratic Party on Oct. 22 launched its Voter Protection initiative to ensure the rights of the state’s voters are upheld during this year’s General Election. “We are fortunate here in Maryland, in that, we’re different than some […]

Participants and instructors of the 2014 Eddie Conway Liberation Institute, the only national debate institute at an HBCU, run and administered by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. (Photo courtesy of Dayvon Love) For the past four years, officers of the youth-led, Baltimore-area think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) have sought to train young […]

This undated handout photo provided by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services shows Rodriquez Purnell. A Maryland lawmaker on Tuesday called for an independent criminal investigation into the accidental release of a man awaiting trial on murder charges from a Baltimore prison. Purnell, 30, was released Friday from the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic […]

A lawsuit that accused two Baltimore restaurants of discriminating against African-American job applicants and employees was settled to the tune of $1.3 million plus injunctive relief, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced recently. Filed in 2008, the EEOC complaint charged McCormick & Schmick’s Restaurant Corp. with violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act […]

DaVeeda Young White in front of the banner for her organization dq4qd.com. “I was up on campus at homecoming and my legs just gave out on me. I hurt; everything hurts,” says DaVeeda Young White, who has been living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for the last 15 years. “I have to plan in advance before […]

For Randallstown residents the long wait for a promise to be fulfilled is finally over. Some new Ruby Tuesday team members, a mostly minority staff of 95, gather in front of bar lounge area. That promise, made nearly twenty years ago, by then County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger, was for a new, full-scale, national chain family […]

A local vegan restaurant and a public health organization have joined forces to bring the first annual Vegan SoulFest to Baltimore City on Oct. 25. This festival is to engage people in conversation about the vegan lifestyle in a way that is culturally sensitive and takes into account the whole range of socioeconomic levels in […]

Marvin “Doc” Cheatham reading to a kindergarten class. More than 1,000 students in 21 Baltimore schools were visited, Oct. 13, by men who read to them and generally created a very special morning. They encouraged them to go to school every day – echoing the call of Dr. Thornton, Baltimore Schools new CEO, according to […]

An Anne Arundel County man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for a gruesome shooting, which caused the victim to fall into a coma for four months and be hospitalized for a year. Prosecutors say Kelly Gross, 25, was sentenced Oct. 21 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. He was convicted of the crime […]