Category: Baltimore News

Real estate developer Theo C. Rodgers will speak at a Nov. 4 event for B.E.S.T. (Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust) about his educational and professional journey, his relationship with B.E.S.T (www.besttrust.org) and ways to support the educational success of academically talented African American boys and girls in Baltimore. Rodgers and B.E.S.T. alumna Tuesday Barnes, The Bryn […]

The Baltimore City Branch of the NAACP is holding its annual Freedom Fund Banquet, 6 p.m., Nov. 7 at the Hilton Hotel in Baltimore. For more information contact Joe Aston at joenaacp@yahoo.com or call the branch office at 410-366-3300. Tessa Hill Aston is president of the local chapter.

Baltimore’s Historic Houses of Worship are the feature of a slide-illustrated talk by photographer Denny Lynch, 10 a.m., Nov. 6 in the Wheeler Auditorium, Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street.

As part of his drive to improve the quality of life in Baltimore, Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor of Empowerment Temple, led what he called a “Breaking Every Chain” demonstration around the Baltimore City Detention Center Oct. 27 before going inside the jail to pray for those incarcerated. For several blocks on a brilliant Sunday afternoon […]

Frederick Douglass High School’s football program can boast of more than just an unblemished record- eight wins and no losses– so far this season. They are getting a little help on life skills from professional football players. Baltimore has been selected as the pilot for “First and Goal,” the National Football League Player Engagement (NFLPE) […]

ANNAPOLIS – Despite national polls showing tea party support at record lows as a result of the government shutdown, Maryland’s largest tea party organization said it has drawn new members. Sam Hale, a Linthicum resident who founded the Maryland Society of Patriots, said, “I wasn’t doing any advertising for my group, we didn’t have a meeting, […]

A Baltimore waitress was fired after her managers told her she wasn’t able to have blonde highlights because “African-American women don’t have blonde hair.” Farryn Johnson, 25, worked as a waitress at Hooters in downtown Baltimore for a year prior to her dismissal. But Johnson said she faced discrimination from her managers, who were White, […]

Five students from Reach Partnership School in East Baltimore were taken to an area hospital Oct. 22 after a school administrator allegedly sold them cookies that contained an unknown substance, said to be marijuana. According to city police, the school police contacted them on Oct. 22 regarding multiple students coming forward and stating “they had […]

One more drug dealer will be off Baltimore’s streets after a heroin trader and career offender was sentenced recently to 10 years in jail. Davon Robinson, 35, of Baltimore was sentenced Oct. 23 to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute heroin, officials announced. Robinson […]

An eclectic exhibit of paintings, drawings, watercolors, sculptures, and ceramics – all created by artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities – will be on display when The Arc Baltimore holds its 12th Annual Art in the Round exhibit and auction. To take place 7 to 10:30 p.m., Nov. 8 at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, […]

Picture Belair Road 20 years from now. Will there be eloquent landscaping framing several small, owner-operated boutiques and businesses? Will you be able to tell the difference between Baltimore City and Baltimore County? Doretha Hilton, of the 4200 block of Moravia Road thinks Belair Road should be crime and trash free. Department of Transportation Chief […]

Thirty-two year old Latreshia Gowdy was allegedly fatally stabbed during a brawl with another woman over her ex-husband. Natafre Green, 30, was found in her car shot multiple times. Diamond Williams, 16, was found dead in her West Baltimore neighborhood with her throat gashed. These three cases are among 24 so far this year in […]