Category: Baltimore News

BEST participants at a recent Dale Carnegie Leadership Camp graduation; Aissatou Boye, left, Kayin Chambers, Jahi Jaramogi, Shawn Stepney Jr., Jasmine Young, Kaitlyn Gregg, Nicole Steele and Dora Evans. (Photo courtesy of Khalil Uqdah) The Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust (BEST) was established in 1987 to help low-income, African-American students navigate the independent (private) school admissions […]

DChase presents the Catonsville Sweet Jazz Series, 5 to 9 p.m., Aug. 16, at Tabba Tabba Coffee and Dessert Bar. 5308 Edmondson Ave., Catonsville, Md.

Edna Odessa Tartt Harris Everyone is invited to the 101st birthday celebration for Mrs. Edna Odessa Tartt Harris, 12:30 to 3 p.m., Sept. 13 at Parkview at Coldspring, 4803 Tamarind Road, Baltimore. Her family calls their matriarch a faithful Christian activist, singer, educator with nothing but fruitful years. Sen. Larry Young visits with members of the […]

Forest Park Senior Center’s 34th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon will be held noon to 4 p.m., Aug. 23, at the Delta Community Center, 2501 Springhill Ave., Baltimore. The afternoon’s activities include raffles and a silent auction, vendors, dancing, gifts and card playing. All proceeds to benefit the Center. Forest Park is also sponsoring a trip to […]

Pastor Harriet Noakes Serenity Village Dancers It was only fitting that musicians played, singers sang and dancers danced at a celebration of life gathering to honor the life of the Rev. Dr. Harriet Marie Robinson Walker Grigsby, Aug. 7 at Mt. Zion Apostolic Church,   5501 Liberty Heights Ave., Baltimore. For so many years she lit […]

Johnny Gill sings “Never Could Have Made It” at New Shiloh Baptist Church to the Rev. Dr. Harold Carter Jr. and his wife, Rev. Monique Carter. (Photo by J.D. Howard) Singer Johnny Gill, center, with Timothy Carter,left, and Daniel Carter, following their parents’ anniversary salute. (Photo by J.D. Howard) When service ended Aug. 10 at […]

President-Elect Paulette Brown with former Chief Judge Robert Bell at ABA annual meeting in Boston. Paulette Brown began her one-year term as president-elect of the American Bar Association Aug. 12 at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in Boston. The move is a historic one – Brown is the first African-American female to hold […]

Due to concerns about their safety and well-being, no pictures were taken of the women who recently sat down with the AFRO to share their experiences living in Baltimore. Their real names will not be given.  These women, Black and transgender (born biologically male, but live and identify as women), face an array of obstacles and […]

Baltimore’s expanded curfew law, which is being described by some as one of the strictest in the nation officially went into effect last weekend on August 8 and the new measure is already dramatically influencing the decisions of some parents. “My kids…worked summer jobs saved their money, did chores around the house in order to […]

Harry Black, after serving as Baltimore’s director of finance for two years, is preparing to take over the role of city manager for Cincinnati, Ohio. After serving two years as Baltimore City’s director of finance, Harry Black is preparing to pivot into the role of city manager for Cincinnati, Ohio and its almost 300,000 residents. […]

Robert Mills says his work as an autopsy technician is more a calling than a job. On a rainy Tuesday morning, Aug. 12, just after 7 a.m., the lifeless, contorted bodies of seven men of assorted ages and races lie separately on steel carts within the autopsy suite at the Office of the Chief Medical […]

Michael Brown Sean Bell, unarmed, hours away from becoming a husband when he was slaughtered by police in a 50-bullet fusillade in November 2006, in Queens, N.Y. Ariston Waiters, 19, of Union City, Ga.; unarmed, shot twice in the back and killed by a police officer in December 2011. Ramarley Graham, an unarmed Bronx teen chased […]