Category: Baltimore News

The year was 1909 when Julia Magruder Murray was born to Clifton and Gertrude Johnson by lamp light. And if you ask her, a lot has changed in the two different centuries in which she’s lived. For one, most buildings have electricity now. And it has been more than a few decades since she had […]

The Morgan State University Board of Regents decided to renew President David Wilson’s contract for one year, three weeks after announcing his existing three year contract would not be renewed at its expiration in June, 2013. The announcement came after a more than two hour closed session in which Wilson met with the board following […]

Jonte “Too Tall” Hall is a long way from the commodes he used to scrub before he became a professional basketball player with the Harlem Globetrotters. Even then he stayed focused. The five-foot-two athlete always knew he would be more than a custodian from Baltimore. Now, 30 years after his childhood began in downtown Baltimore’s […]

HANOVER — Joanne Genevish, 60, of Rockville made her first trip to Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover early this month. She’s not likely to be back. A packed parking garage and long lines of traffic were off-putting, and only “easier access” might sway her decision, Genevish said. Other visitors said changes, from allowing smoking inside […]

Less than two weeks after the Baltimore City Community College (BCCC) Board of Trustees ousted President Carolane Williams, students and faculty still have questions about her Dec. 11 dismissal. Some students said they were unaware that Williams had been terminated. “I’m indifferent,” said Ashley Woodfork, 20, a sophomore general studies major from Baltimore. She described Williams, the […]

Osborne Allen Payne was much more than just a wildly successful entrepreneur. Long before he became Baltimore’s first African-American McDonald’s franchisee he was making a difference on the front lines in classrooms both in America and abroad. And even after the accomplishments and accolades afforded him the opportunity to become a premier Baltimore businessman, the […]

One Baltimore man just can’t seem to shake his need to defraud his fellow citizens out of their hard-earned money and clean credit. For the fourth time, Ronald Louis Coleman, 65, has been convicted of crimes related to scamming credit cards and posing as an American Express employee to get confidential information and funds. On […]

Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-MD), was recently selected as the president-elect of the National Black Caucus of State Legislatures (NBCSL). Pugh has been a member of the Senate since January 2007 and represents District 40 in Baltimore City. Since 2011, she has served as a member of the Finance Committee and the Joint Audit Committee and […]

The Morgan State University campus continues to buzz about the decision by the school’s board of regents to end Dr. David Wilson’s term as MSU president. In a Dec. 11 statement, the board said it would not renew Wilson’s contract as president two and a half years into his term at the helm of one […]

It is more peaceful in the Mondawmin community these days, even as a wave of shootings and senseless homicides tied to what police are calling a gang war has pushed killings over 200 in Baltimore. While victims are falling prey to violence in troubled areas of the city, in Mondawmin, where five homicides were reported […]