Category: Baltimore News

Although many of its founders have passed away, the organization they helped create–Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD)—is still going strong 35 years after being forged as a community umbrella of leadership and support. The core of Baltimore’s movers and shakers gathered recently at the Enoch Pratt Library to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the […]

It has been almost five months since Baltimore blogger and activist Apollos Frank James MacArthur, more popularly known as the Baltimore Spectator, was arrested in a spectacular display that was broadcast in real time over the Internet. Now, two weeks before his May 8 trial date, supporters are questioning the official handling of the case, […]

Baltimore City law enforcement has renewed its efforts to crack down on the longstanding practice of riding dirt bikes on city streets. Illegal dirt bike riding has been banned in Baltimore City since 2000. A highly dangerous activity, many dirt bike riders have little regard for local traffic and are often disruptive in the community. […]

Baltimore’s W.E.B Du Bois High School has become the latest winner of that city’s Mayor’s Attendance Campaign competition. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in August established a new attendance campaign to promote increased attendance at city schools. The Mayor’s Attendance Campaign began August 27 with children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes. “One of the necessary pieces of […]

Baltimore area middle and high school, college and university and community league coaches teamed up with Baltimore Ravens defensive lineman Chris Canty and CBS sportscaster James Brown to develop a game plan for developing and mentoring young men. The second installment of the training series “A Call To Coaches: Your Voice Counts, to Baltimore” was […]

A Baltimore man was killed and a woman shot after police were called to mediate a domestic violence dispute in the 3400 block of Foster Avenue on the night of April 18. Plainclothes officers arrived at the scene around 11:45 p.m. to find a husband and wife arguing at the location. After taking initial information, […]

Two Morgan State University graduates have produced an emotional documentary that features those affected by the senseless violence on Baltimore’s city streets. At a recent screening, participants in a recent panel discussed what should be done to address Baltimore’s urban youth problems. The documentary is scheduled for release later this year.

Charlotte Knox was among the first wave of people hired to work at the downtown Baltimore Hyatt Regency hotel. After 30 years, she was glad to retire last year. “When I came to work at the Hyatt, there were 400 plus employees, including managers and supervisors. Since then I have seen such a difference,” said […]

Two months after he was shot by a Baltimore police during a training exercise, University of Maryland Police Officer Raymond Gray can’t hold his wife, play with two boys or work. After he was shot, he spent three weeks at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma before he was transferred to Sinai Hospital, for rehabilitation. […]

Neither the heavy rain nor the cold that hovered over Baltimore could dampen the spirits of the community leaders, residents, politicians, clergy and police officers who marched through Fulton Heights on April 12 for a rally to make the streets safer. Billed the “Enough is Enough” rally, the event was part of a seven week […]

Safe havens for young people, cultural diversity training for law enforcement officers and accountability at all levels of criminal justice and social service infrastructure were the recurring themes as youth leaders, community organizers and Baltimore City police officers met on April 15 at the Academy of Success in West Baltimore for the First Annual Youth […]

Morgan State University’s Community Organic Vegetable Garden is back in full flower and is greener than ever this year. The once-vacant land at Chinquapin Run Park, on the corner of Hillen and Stonewood Roads, is being cultivated by Morgan political science majors and members of the school’s Nutritional Sciences Program, along with the help of […]