Category: Baltimore News

BALTIMORE (AP) — A health care enrollment fair on Saturday drew hundreds of Maryland residents who lined up and waited to beat Monday’s midnight deadline to enroll in a health care plan. People said they generally waited about an hour at the Baltimore Convention Center before sitting down with a navigator to help guide them […]

A home invasion in South Baltimore left one woman dead and two others injured after a man broke into their home and opened fire on the trio as they sat in the living room of their row home. According to city police, on March 25, they received a call for a shooting in the 3800 […]

On March 27, the state Court of Appeals dismissed a lower court’s ruling that upended all-important state contracts with the developer of the $1.5 billion redevelopment of State Center, a potential economic boon for the West Baltimore community surrounding it. The State Center Project had languished for years due mainly to a lawsuit (funded partly […]

As violence and fear encroach upon schools and shopping malls even in the sleepiest of Baltimore’s suburbs, so has the stark reality that crime is everywhere, and that faith leaders and communities must abandon their own apathy first in order to change anything. Gone are the years of so-called zero tolerance policing during the 1990s […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Renoir painting returns to public display this weekend for the first time in more than 60 years since it was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting “On the Shore of the Seine,” dated about 1879, became the subject of a dramatic legal dispute after a Virginia woman […]

Marvin “Doc” Cheatham stared in disbelief at the posters he held in his hands. “We have taken down close to 80 posters,” Cheatham told the AFRO. “There were blue posters posted on top of my posters that read: Do Not Vote for Marvin ‘Doc’ CHEAT HAM.” On March 18, Cheatham noticed his flyers – strategically […]

After a winter long hiatus, the volunteer group from the Dorchester County Historical Society will once again hit the road with the goal of bringing home early Dorchester photographs. This is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 5th 2014 at Old Salty’s Restaurant on Hooper’s Island from 11 am – 2 pm. At this […]

Baltimore Child Abuse Center will host the inaugural and SOLD OUT Be A Hero event at the American Visionary Art Museum, April 3. The evening will feature boxing champion and child sexual abuse survivor, Sugar Ray Leonard. Be A Hero is sold out thanks to the tremendous support of the community and outstanding sponsors, including […]

Towson University Debate Team members Ameena Ruffin ‘15 and Korey Johnson ’16 won the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championship, March 24, at Indiana University. “Ruffin and Johnson are the first African American women’s team to win a national tournament,” according to Mike Davis, CEDA president. “No African American woman has ever won our […]

In anticipation of the 2014 season, former Baltimore Orioles Ken Singleton spoke to the AFRO about the decline in the number of Black baseball players in the major leagues, major league’s efforts to combat that decline, as well as his path to becoming one of the few Black play-by-play announcers covering professional baseball. Singleton was […]

As the basis of her doctoral dissertation for Wesley Theological Seminary, the Rev. Wanda Bynum Duckett explored how spoken word poetry can be used as a component of worship. Her work on her doctorate’s degree in urban ministry complete, at 1 p.m. March 22, Rev. Duckett presented her finding to the congregation of Mt. Zion […]