Category: Baltimore News

It was the night of Feb. 8, 1963,  and William D. Zantzinger, a prosperous tobacco farmer from Southern Maryland, was the center of attention at the Spinsters’ Ball, a swanky charity event at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. Channeling Fred Astaire in a top hat, white tie and tails, a carnation in his lapel and […]

Legislation being considered in Maryland’s House of Delegates that would remove non-profits from the Minority Business Enterprise procurement program has gained momentum with support from the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs and minority-owned businesses. “The overall African-American business community is behind this,” said Calvin Mims, president of Calmi Electrical Co., on behalf of the Presidents’ […]

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Senate is poised to pass Gov. Martin O’Malley’s death penalty repeal bill after a number of amendments from Republicans, and one Democrat, failed. A final vote could come as early as Wednesday morning, with the bill then moving to the House of Delegates. If it passes, Maryland would become the 18th […]

As more than 1,000 people, many of them gun rights supporters, lined up outside the Lowe House Office Building in Annapolis Friday to testify on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s gun control legislation, hundreds of gun control advocates rallied across the street with the governor. Vincent DeMarco, national coordinator of the Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, […]

BALTIMORE – The automatic spending cuts that began Friday could result in longer lines at airport security checks and closure of air traffic control towers if Congress doesn’t agree on a way to reduce the budget, according to Maryland politicians who gathered at Maryland’s busiest airport. Sen. Ben Cardin and Maryland Reps. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore, […]

It happened in a concert hall on a Saturday night, not in a sanctuary on Sunday, but Darin Atwater and his Soulful Symphony took their audience to church during a Feb. 23 performance at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre. Featuring more than 50 instrumentalists and vocalists, and a handful of independent artists who made guest appearances, the […]

Born of a need for change in a city worn down by prejudice and racism, the members of Baltimore’s Goon Squad had just one goal: to replace discrimination with equality. What began as an 11-man group during the turbulent late 20th century is down to three. But the survivors reflected recently, they succeeded more than […]

More than one of the women reported that Dr. Nikita Levy made them feel uneasy, an attorney representing some of the doctor’s former patients said. Then there are allegations from others. Sometimes he was too rough. Sometimes he examined them with no assistant present. Sometimes he asked women to come back long before they were […]

ANNAPOLIS – In 2005, Rebecca Swope gave birth to her only child, but her experience with childbirth was very different from that of most mothers. Swope had to give birth while chained to her hospital bed. “I delivered my only child, Hannah, eight years ago in Laurel, Md., shackled to a bed, chained like an […]

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley is one step closer to achieving his goal of strengthening Maryland’s gun control laws thanks to a vote of approval in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday. The committee approved SB 281, known as the Firearm Safety Act of 2013, by a 7 to 4 vote. The legislation will move […]

Dozens of admirers filled the New Shiloh Baptist Church on Feb. 21 to pay their respects to Baltimore DJ and promoter Warren Billy Taylor. Taylor, 74, passed away in the early morning hours of Feb. 10 according to a friend, Tim Watts of the radio station MAGIC 95.9. Taylor had a stroke and was hospitalized […]