Category: Baltimore News

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) announced he is seeking repeal of the death penalty in the state, drawing the praise of the human rights community. “The death penalty does not work in terms of preventing violent crime,” the Democratic governor said Jan. 15 at a news conference, where he was surrounded by anti-capital punishment legislators, […]

Businesses owners, community organizations, policy makers, and area university faculty and staff have come together to form the Better Maryland Committee, a conglomerate of leaders concerned with issues affecting first, the Baltimore African-American community, as well as residents statewide. The newly formed committee first gathered on Nov. 29 and has since picked up roughly 20 […]

WASHINGTON – Skher Brown, leader of the International Capoeira Angola Foundation of Baltimore, needs just five volunteers to help his organization paint and move into its new studio. For help, he turned to the organizers of the National Day of Service, to be held Jan. 19 in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s inauguration the next […]

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley announced plans on Friday to commit $25 million in state funds for the development of affordable rental housing. The investment, which will be added to the 2014 state budget, is expected to create 1,900 jobs in Maryland, O’Malley said at a press conference held in the center of College Creek […]

ANNAPOLIS – Gun control, the death penalty, transportation and environmental legislation were expected to be top priorities for state lawmakers as the Maryland General Assembly convened for its 433rd legislative session Wednesday in Annapolis. In the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., in December, Gov. Martin O’Malley plans to push for tighter firearm […]

The Baltimore City Police Department has put out an open call to local bishops, pastors and rabbis in hopes that the faith community will become a more integral part of a new anti-crime strategy. In a three-hour presentation and panel session at the American Brewery in East Baltimore, Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, head of the new Community Policing Division, […]

(January 3, 2012 UPDATED) BALTIMORE – Anthony Michael Hobbs, a child actor and second grade student at Baltimore’s Our Lady of Victory catholic school, will portray a young Frederick Douglass in the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) special The Abolitionist to premiere Jan. 8. Actor/director Richard Brooks (Law & Order, The Crow) will play the adult […]

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 […]