Category: Baltimore News

South Carolina Bar-b-que, is owned by Eric Sessions, is the way Sessions pursues his passion to feed people. Since 2002, the Baltimore City area has witnessed a growing industry of Black-owned food trucks. With a variety of cuisine, these food trucks not only provide Baltimoreans with original mealtime options, but serve as a conduit for […]

Community leaders gathered to discuss initiative. Worried about the impact of the stricter youth curfew law passed by the Baltimore City Council, the Baltimore City Branch of the NAACP decided to take action. The NAACP Branch is building a coalition of community organizations and businesses to create a “database of the resources” that provide mentorships, […]

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Despite recent reports to the contrary, Morgan State University’s largest research contract in school history is not in any imminent danger of being revoked or restricted. “From the tone and specificity of the issues outlined in the USRA letter, it appears Morgan is confronting a raft of federal complaints regarding […]

Local religious and community leaders took it to the streets, June 7, of Northwest Baltimore for Faith Walk 2014. Beginning at the Forest Park Senior Center on Liberty Heights Avenue, they headed south and then returned for a street revival at their starting point. In one hour, 14 pastors led prayer on 14 street corners […]

Patrons of the July 2 Druid Hill Farmers Market were treated to a free concert featuring Swift Smoke and the Sparks. According to the Friends of Druid Hill Park, who made the recent announcement, Swift Smoke is a sprawling collection of particularly stinky players based in Baltimore. Their performance marked the return of the Market […]

Gov. Martin O’Malley extends an invitation to all Marylanders involved in volunteer service to spend a fun-filled Sunday at the Maryland State Fair on August 24. The Governor’s Volunteer Appreciation Day is presented by the Governor’s office on Service and Volunteerism and the Maryland State Fair. “Each year Maryland’s volunteers give over 190 million hours […]

Residents of the Sandtown Winchester neighborhood of West Baltimore have heard rumblings that an important supermarket serving their community, the Stop, Shop, and Save Food Market at North Monroe and Pressman streets, may close. The physical appearances of empty store shelves seem to suggest that the belief in such rumors held by some may be […]

Geraldine Morgan Gunn Geraldine Morgan Gunn, a Baltimore native who was a health care industry professional for more than 30 years, died June 19. She was 74. A graduate of Frederick Douglass High School, she attended nursing school. She joined Bon Secours Hospital after nursing school as a nursing assistant and was part of the […]

Roy Ayers Roy Ayers will be in concert, 4 and 8 p.m., July 6 at Forest Park Senior Center, 4801 Liberty Heights Avenue, 410-466-2124, in Baltimore. Produced by Unique Ventures Unlimited, the show will also feature Total Eclipse and Victoria and Joe Keyes (The Late Bloomer). Doors open at 3 p.m. There will be a […]

Look Forward My Brother (LFMB) will provide 40 disadvantaged Baltimore African-American youth, 12-18, free horseback riding lessons at the Liberty Elementary School #64, 3901 Maine Ave., 9 a.m. to noon, June 28. As part of this initiative, they will take part in presentations given by African American men of character.  Presentations will be given by […]