Category: Baltimore News

Dr. Gregory Thornton helps a middle school student with a math problem at Afya Public Charter School.

Russell A. Neverdon, Sr. According to the director of the Baltimore City Board of Elections, the first draft of the 2014 general election ballot (Nov. 4) was due Aug. 22, and Russell A. Neverdon Sr. is still fighting to have his name included on it as a candidate for Baltimore City State’s Attorney. On Aug. […]

The weekend beginning Friday, Aug. 22 included four homicides and five non-fatal shootings. During the early hours of Friday morning, Nathaniel Quarterman was beaten to death on the 4200 block of Shamrock Avenue, taken outside and set on fire. Baltimore City Police have arrested and charged 43-year-old Lawrence Coverdale with first-degree murder, weapon, and assault […]

Morgan State University freshman defensive lineman Marquese Meadow. Morgan State University freshman defensive lineman Marquese Meadow, a native of Washington, D.C., died Sunday morning, Aug. 24 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, according to Morgan State Athletics Media Relations Office. Morgan State Athletics released a statement Sunday via its athletics website, MorganStateBears.com, stating that Meadow fell ill […]

Adrenis Carter Reid Adrenis Carter Reid, a prominent figure of Baltimore’s Bethel AME Church and mother of head pastor the Rev. Dr. Frank Madison Reid III, died Aug. 21 at age 90 after a three-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Reid was a surrogate mother to the Bethel congregation for the past 26 years, and though […]

The Simms-Miller Family. The Simms-Miller family reunion, celebrated Aug. 16, marked 106 years at Druid Hill Park, and is now branching into their sixth generation. As on every third Saturday in August, there was face painting, soccer and football, table games, raffle, line dancing and music by DJ Zack. A procla mation from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake hailed […]

Kevin Liles Kevin Liles’ For A Better Baltimore Foundation is sponsoring a Back to School Festival, noon to 4 p.m., at Security Square Mall in Baltimore County with the hopes of helping children focus on preparing for a new school year. The event, co-hosted by BCPS Superintendent Dr. Dallas Dance and Baltimore County Executive Kevin […]

The Eighth Annual Back To School Jam featured Christian performing artists. West Baltimore Clergy United (WBCU) distributed school supplies and food to families during their Eighth Annual Back to School Jam, Aug. 16, on the campus of Coppin State University in Baltimore. An outreach by the WBCU to meet the physical and spiritual needs of […]

A sign oriented toward North Avenue traffic hails a Madison Park’s unique residential and business community. After decades of high crime and violence, the City has announced the imminent closing and razing of the troubled housing complex. Last June, residents of the Madison Park North apartment complex were told the housing development would be closing, […]

Team Autobars with staff from Arundel Elementary/Middle School: Tarahn Harris, left, Michael Young, Principal Rochelle Machado, Assistant Principal Lawanda Wilson, Sean House and Monte Jackson. African Americans suffer from many chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, at rates far higher than those of their White counterparts. In Baltimore City, a fitness and wellness […]

Christopher Warren with his grandmother and five-year breast cancer survivor Phyllis Isaacs. Christopher Warren was sitting in the library at Florida Coastal School of Law in August 2009 when he received a call from his mother informing him that his grandmother would be going in for surgery after being diagnosed with breast cancer.  Warren’s grandmother, […]

The HorseShoe Casino Baltimore will stage its grand opening, Aug. 26, welcoming an estimated 10,000 guests through its doors. Over time, however, the casino’s patrons will not be distinguished so much by race but by income and education, experts said. “There is not much data on the racial breakdown of casino-goers,” said gambling expert James […]