Category: Baltimore News

Antonio Hayes, one of the three presumptive delegates for Baltimore City’s 40th District in the House of Delegates. Six months before he officially takes office, Antonio Hayes, the presumptive delegate of the 40th District has begun working on behalf of his district. He is assisting Violetville residents in their attempts to revitalize a local park. […]

Joseph Walker. (Screenshot of cbslocal/newyork news report) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a New Jersey detective in the fatal shooting of a driver during a case of road rage in Maryland. Forty-one-year-old Joseph Walker was found not guilty on all counts on Wednesday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. The investigator for the […]

At the end of each school year, municipalities throughout the country seek ways to provide for the loss of free meals many children receive and rely on. However, federal regulations governing the programs that fund free meals to low-income children are blocking the success of the effort. Of the approximately 85,000 children attending Baltimore City public schools, 84 percent, or about 71,000 […]

The push to find homes for hundreds of unaccompanied Central American immigrant children increases as Maryland leaders search to find a solution to the current immigration crisis. The prevailing thought is that the children are leaving their home country due to the violence they’re forced to endure. For many Central American children, gangs are taking […]

Sen. Catherine Pugh speaks at a press conference at BWI announcing release of report detailing racial inequality among BWI’s concessions workers. African-Americans are disproportionately represented among fast food workers at Maryland’s BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, while White workers are far more likely to be employed in the often higher paying roles of servers and bartenders, […]

Arnold Jolivet receiving the Special Award at the 2014 Maryland Minority Contractors Association, Inc. 4th Summer Soiree and Awards Banquet. (AFRO Photo/A.R. Ward) (Updated 7/29/2014) Arnold Jolivet Sr., a well-known advocate for minority contractors at both the local and national level, died July 27 at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore after struggling with several ailments over the […]

Participants in the 2014 Eddie Conway Liberation Institute. In a classroom on the campus of Morgan State University, a group of high school students gathered for a lecture on the contours ofAfro-pessimism. Afro-pessimism is a school of thought that argues multicultural theoretical frameworks err in equating the experience of other ethnic groups with the Black […]

The Center for Global Studies & International Education held the welcoming ceremony of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI), June 16 in the Murphy Fine Arts Recital Hall. This prestigious program was awarded to the university by the White House. Morgan joined the ranks of 25 other universities throughout the USA who are host to […]

D’Atra Hicks who has performed in several Tyler Perry plays including Madea’s Family Reunion, and What’s Done in the Dark is headlining “The Teachers’ Lounge.” 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 […]