Category: Baltimore News

The Kings Landing Women’s Service Club will hold its Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast, Jan. 20, at Martin’s West, 6817 Dogwood Road, Woodlawn, MD. This year’s featured speaker is the Rev. Mark A. Thompson, Host of Make It Plain, SiriusXM Radio Talk Program. Rev. Thompson has been a broadcaster for 25 years, beginning […]

The 26th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Dinner, presented by the Annapolis based Martin Luther King Jr. Committee, will be held 6 p.m., Jan. 17 at La Fontaine Bleue, 7514 Ritchie Highway, Glen Burnie. This largest King birthday celebration in Anne Arundel County will feature Shirley Sherrod, civil rights activist, as the keynote […]

The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities is an educational and politically cultural event that aims to highlight, promote, and expose the African roots and heritage of Latino people & culture. An expansive and inclusive Black History Month event, this event aims to help build bridges between the African American and Latino communities, and help to […]

School 33 Art Center hosts “BiPolar,” a multi-medium group exhibition featuring Lauren Frances Adams, Katie Duffy, Mary Frank, Hedieh Ilchi and Dan Perkins. The exhibition is on display in the Main Gallery Jan. 17 to March 8. An opening reception takes place 6 p.m., Jan. 17. School 33 Art Center is a facility managed by […]

Would-be elected office holders have less than seven weeks to clear the necessary hurdles to get their names on the ballot for the primary elections this summer, local elections officials said recently. Feb. 25 is the deadline for submitting filing fees and petitions in time to be listed on ballots for the June 24 primary, […]

Bishop Douglas Miles, after a whirlwind European trip last month, is part of a fresh attack on street violence. In addition to battling for gun control laws, he wants to use 21st century technology to control guns. Through electronic devices, internet commands and even integrated chips that can be embedded into humans, Miles found in […]

Niles Ford, the new man at the helm of the Baltimore City Fire Department (BFD), is not new at public safety. The 48-year-old African American native of Dover, Del. has spent nearly half his life as a fire fighter, paramedic and a student of urban government management. Ford, who was unveiled Dec. 30 as Mayor […]

Raising Maryland’s minimum wage will headline a long list of issues to be debated during the 2014 session of the Maryland General Assembly. For 90 days, beginning Jan. 8, Maryland state lawmakers, officials, special interest groups, lobbyists and other stakeholders will gather for the annual conclave at the state capital in Annapolis “It will be […]

Baltimore’s first African-American police commissioner, Bishop Robinson, died Jan. 6 at the age of 86. The downtown police headquarters building bears his name, as does the criminal justice institute at Coppin State University. Additionally, he served as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and Secretary of the Maryland Department of […]

Niles Ford, 48, a veteran urban administrator, career paramedic and former Lincoln, Neb. fire chief, has been selected to run the Baltimore Fire Department, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Dec. 30. “I believe we have found a dedicated public servant with a proven track record of results,” Rawlings-Blake said of Ford. “He has spent the last […]

Larry Jeter, the owner of Dimensions In Music – a record store located on Park Avenue in downtown Baltimore – has agreed to provide product shelf space to the vocal, songwriting and dance winners of the 2014 Baltimore “Uplifting Minds II” (ULMII) national talent competition. The competition is part of a free one-day entertainment conference […]

For more than 25,000 Maryland residents, this holiday season was filled with the uncertainty of what’s to come after their extended Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) benefits ended. They are among more than a million Americans who lost their federal unemployment benefits Dec. 28 because Congress did not renew the extended benefits created to buffer the […]