Category: Baltimore News

Over the last few weeks, Baltimore’s mayoral candidates are firming up their stances on one of the election’s most hot-button issues – the city’s property tax rate. The city’s rate […]

Horns honked in support of over 100 federal employees and community leaders gathered the evening of July 25 outside of the Social Security Administration’s Woodlawn headquarters in protest. The message […]

Several Baltimore County residents are up in arms about a new councilmanic redistricting plan that would shift Woodlawn’s Social Security Complex and thousands of residents out of the only Black […]

Circuit Court Judge Marcella A. Holland has been a pioneer since she was 12-years-old. As one of the first Black students to integrate the junior high school in her rural […]

More than a month after his nephew was murdered following an attempt to chase down a would-be robber, Congressman Elijah Cummings wants to ensure that other witnesses implicated in violent […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say a 7-month-old baby and his teenager baby sitter who disappeared from Baltimore have been found in northeast Washington. D.C. police spokesman Officer Anthony Clay says […]

Baltimore City Councilwoman Helen Holton recently expressed her relief after Maryland’s highest court upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss her criminal charges on bribery and perjury. “I am overjoyed and […]

A trial for the contentious legal case involving the state and a coalition of students and alumni from Maryland’s four HBCUs has been postponed until December. The presiding judge over […]

The nation’s oldest Black lawyers and judges association will host its 86th annual convention in Baltimore later this month. The D.C.-based National Bar Association (NBA) will draw an estimated 1,200 […]

Baltimore City residents are widely perceived as apathetic to the city’s political process, but many have a lot to say about the city’s upcoming mayoral election. The AFRO took to […]