Category: Baltimore News

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

City Revival Ministries will hold its grand opening, 3 p.m., Sept. 7 at Druid Heights Maggie Quille Center, 2140 McCulloh St. in Baltimore. A holistic urban ministry in the heart of West Baltimore, City Revival Ministries is dedicated to sharing the love of Christ through traditional Christian worship, community service, outreach, cultural awareness and social […]

Randall Robinson Virginia Union University, an historically black university in Richmond, Va., founded in 1865, is hosting author and internationally acclaimed advocate for freedom and justice, Randall Robinson, to address university faculty, alumni, students and the general public, Sept. 8 at VUU’s Coburn Hall. At a time when historically black colleges and universities are advancing […]

Serenah Polite Serenah Polite spent the summer doing an internship at the University of Science and Technology, China (USTC), having been one of four selected from many applicants LeHigh University’s College of Arts and Sciences where she matriculates. USTC is a top university in Hefei, China in Anhui province. Interns were given a project and […]

Dr. Grady Dale The Maryland Psychological Association (MPA) announced that MPA member and past president, Grady Dale Jr., Ed.D., was recognized, Aug. 8, by the President of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Nadine Kaslow, with a Presidential Citation for his passionate and lifelong community advocacy devoted toward reducing the stigma of seeking mental health care […]

Exhibition artists Ben Jones, Howardena Pindell, Victor Davson, Nanette Carter, Mel Edwards BALTIMORE — Three members of Morgan State University’s staff traveled to Cuba this summer, as part of an event that sought to unite African Americans and Afro Cubans through art. ‎ Diala Toure, Curator of Collections at The James E. Lewis Museum of […]

Ring in the holiday season with a visit to the Zoo for Breakfast with Santa & Friends. This year, in addition to the two events held on the Zoo’s Mansion House Porch, Dec. 14 and 20, the Zoo will be adding a special Breakfast with Santa & Friends at Penguin Coast, the Zoo’s newest exhibit […]

Baltimore artist Blaqstarr says his latest album, “Trinity Vol 1.5,” is the culmination of everything he has done so far, from his beginnings as a DJ-turned Baltimore club producer to his latest evolution which includes musical instruments such as the guitar, drums and keyboard. For portions of his new album, the artist reworked old music […]

Actress/singer D’Atra Hicks. Back By Popular Demand, Ursula V. Battle’s The Teachers’ Lounge returns Aug. 30 and 31, for a special “back to school” engagement. Headlining the performance will be actress/singer D’Atra Hicks who has performed in several Tyler Perry plays including Madea’s Family Reunion, and What’s Done in the Dark. The Teachers’ Lounge returns […]

The Rev. Dr. Andre Humphrey has worked for the last five years to keep alive a trauma response team that assists youth and communities affected by crime. For 13 years, the Rev. Dr. Andre Humphrey worked with a violence reduction program in Baltimore City designed to assist youth and communities as they worked to process the […]

Photo courtesy Facebook The names seem to pile up in the American imagination: Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Jonathan Ferrell, and Michael Brown. We know the circumstances of their deaths, but we have never heard their stories directly from them, silenced as they were on the perception that they were dangerous criminals. In Baltimore […]