Category: Baltimore News

Baltimore City mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake speaks at a press conference announcing the formation of a working group to consider the implementation of a body camera program in the city. (AFRO Photo/Roberto Alejandro) A working group will study possible implementation of a body camera program for Baltimore police, and will provide recommendations to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake […]

In a recent decision, a Maryland court ruled that the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights only creates procedural protections for officers involved internal investigations, and does not affect the ability of a third-party—for example, a person who made a complaint that initiated the investigation—from accessing records related to the proceedings. The ruling by the […]

The Baltimore County Delta Foundation (BCDF) is hosting a one day Stand Down for homeless military females who have served and are serving in the military, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Nov. 14, at the Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus Veterans Center. Stand down is a military term for “at ease” or rest. […]

MEAC Woman of the Year, Christina Epps, center, is surrounded by Rep. Elijah Cummings, left, Derrick Ramsey, Coppin Athletic director; Coppin president, Dr. Mortimer H. Neufville and MEAC commissioner Dr. Dennis E. Thomas. BALTIMORE – Coppin State’s Christina Epps could relate to the honorable Elijah Cummings’ convocation message about turning dreams into reality, Oct. 14. […]

Last week, Baltimore City announced the reopening of its Housing Choice Voucher Program (formerly known as Section 8) waiting list for the first time since 2003. Any interested resident may apply for one of 25,000 spots, online, between Oct. 22 and 30. In Baltimore, as well as many other jurisdictions, however, there are no legal […]

When the mayor of Baltimore City, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and Police Commissioner Anthony Batts released a report on ways to reform the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) in the aftermath of two damning videos that surfaced showing Baltimore police officers engaged in seemingly unwarranted violence against citizens, the report included a recommendation to “convene a panel to […]

Dr. John L. Hudgins Almost a month ago as I stopped for my morning 7/11 coffee in Baltimore County, Inoticed several young people sitting outside the store. As I got my coffee (actually chocolate) a Black woman police officer came in and had a brief discussion with the person behind the counter, an elderly White […]

Carver Vocational Technical High School, Baltimore, MD. BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a video emerged of her fighting a 17-year-old student. The video, taken Friday and obtained by WBFF-TV, shows the girl shoving a chair in the teacher’s direction inside a classroom at Carver Vocational-Technical High in […]

(Updated October 16, 2014) In 2006, a small group of dedicated educators began meeting on Saturdays with minority middle school-aged boys at Sojourner Douglass College in east Baltimore. This small group was the beginnings of the Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence, or PRAISE, a Saturday college-readiness and manhood development program designed for a population […]

Carlita Candace Murphy Jones Perkins. When family and friends gathered, Oct. 13, to celebrate the life of Carlita Candace Murphy Jones Perkins, they did indeed “rise up and called her blessed,” in the spirit of the virtuous woman described in Proverbs 31. The life she chose for herself blessed the lives of her husband of 38 […]

Former Rep. Harold Ford served as the keynote speaker for the symposium. A recent symposium at the University of Baltimore School of Law took on the issue of diversity in the legal profession, highlighting the need for improved recruitment and retention of minorities and women in Maryland’s, and the nation’s, top law firms. According to […]

Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced the creation of a task force to study the city’s ongoing heroin problems and to make recommendations by July of next year at a press conference at City Hall on Wednesday. Flanked by Dr. Jacqueline Duval-Harvey, interim commissioner of the Baltimore City Health Department, and Bernard McBride, president and […]