Category: Baltimore News

The Baltimore County Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with the Baltimore County Human Relations Commission is hosting its first Adult Public Guardianship Symposium from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 29, at the Hunt Valley Inn located at 245 Shawan Road in Hunt Valley. The five hour event is aimed to help case […]

Baltimore’s first streaming radio station for kids “Kinkx Kids Radio” will launch, noon to 4 p.m., Oct. 18, at the Hamilton-Lauraville Farmers’ Market Lot, 4500 Harford Road, Baltimore, Md. Guest speakers will be Deborah Phelps, educator, author, and mother of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, and former Harlem Globetrotter, Charles “Choo” Smith. Smith will perform […]

The Women’s Civic League in partnership with Baltimore City Recreation and Parks extends an invitation to the 11th Annual Apple Festival, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Oct. 3, at West Shore Park (Baltimore Inner Harbor) located at the 400-500 block of Light Street. The event will feature a variety of delicious food, entertainment, arts and […]

Free Fall Baltimore Everything is FREE! The ninth annual Free Fall Baltimore, presented by BGE, takes place Oct. 1 through Oct. 31. Free Fall Baltimore, a citywide celebration, offers hundreds of free arts & cultural events and activities at participating venues throughout Baltimore City. Held in conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, area attractions […]

Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant For the Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant, the call to ministry was not heralded by a booming voice from heaven or even a still, small voice. Instead, it came from the satiric wit of a popular comedian-slash-activist. “When I tell people I got my call to ministry from Dick Gregory they laugh,” […]

Baltimore area defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon speaks at seminar on how to stay safe during police stops. A panel of experienced trial lawyers explained to a near capacity audience at Empowerment Temple how to successfully survive being stopped by the police. The crowd had assembled, Sept. 30, for a seminar titled ‘C.O.P.S.: Conscious Operations […]

BALTIMORE – At Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino, if you’re sitting on it, it’s more than likely that Tony Hill and his business partner Hans Edwards had something to do with it. Their company, Edwards & Hill Office Furniture, had the huge task of ensuring that seating in the casino’s bars, restaurants and other public areas was […]

Artist rendering of proposed New Northwest Area Elementary School. (Photo by Linda Dorsey Walker) Northwest Baltimore County residents can anticipate the opening of a new 700 seat elementary school in less than one year; however, few residents living within a five minute drive from the new site realize the school is coming, its location or […]

As the nation’s youth settle into the routine of a new school year, the best and brightest of Black America are gearing up to join them. HistoryMakers founder Julianna Richardson. The Back to School with the HistoryMakers program invites Black American trailblazers from all professional fields and trades to share their stories at schools around […]

Polling place inside Hazelwood Elementary/Middle School on primary day in Baltimore on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) A recent study has found that polling precincts in Maryland with higher percentages of minority voters had longer wait times during the 2012 presidential election, and that poor resource allocation was to blame. The study, “Election […]

Whether it’s the black-and-white tuxedo effect or the smile-inducing waddle, penguins have swum their way into America’s heart through popular films, such as March of the Penguins, Happy Feet and Surf’s Up. Now, people in the Maryland area will have a chance to fall in love with the flightless birds when The Maryland Zoo launches […]

The Matthew A. Henson Neighborhood Association has called for congressional hearings into the high incidence of heroin addiction that has afflicted Baltimore City for decades. Armed with statistics from a number of reporting sources, the neighborhood association is hoping hearings yield constructive solutions to a problem that has had devastating effects on the city and […]