Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

Tyrone West Last July, Tyrone West died while Baltimore City police were placing him under arrest. The officers involved in the incident were never charged. A joint investigation by the State’s Attorney’s Office, the Baltimore Police Department and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner concluded that officers used reasonable force and that West’s death […]

At a rally in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 19, young protestors speak out against police brutality. Ferguson, Mo. remains a tinderbox almost two weeks after Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, was confronted by police officer Darren Wilson for walking in the street rather than the sidewalk and subsequently shot and killed. Baltimore has already seen […]

Marylanders fed up with living with smog are pressuring the Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) to increase protections via a new social media campaign. On Aug. 14, the Sierra Club launched the #StoptheSmog campaign to urge officials to cut dangerous pollution from coal plants. Maryland residents tweeted to MDE’s Twitter account, @MDEnvironment, photos of themselves wearing […]

In a little over a week, the new Horseshoe Casino in downtown Baltimore will open its doors. Ahead of its August 26 grand opening, casino officials hosted members of the media for a sneak-preview. General Manager Chad Barnhill told reporters that although the casino will not open for a few more days, it could open […]