Category: Baltimore News

Coppin State University Provost Dr. Cynthia Jackson-Hammond will become the first female president of Central State University, the Ohio school has announced. Only the eighth president in the historically Black university’s history, Jackson-Hammond follows in the footsteps of current president John W. Garland, who announced his retirement last year. “I am extremely thrilled and honored […]

The Veterans Affairs (VA) Maryland Health Care System observed National Nurses Week (May 6-12) with an awards ceremony, May 7, in the auditorium at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, delivered the keynote address on the future of nursing. Nurses were […]

Baltimore City Police are still investigating several violent incidents that claimed four lives and left others in the hospital with injuries over Mother’s Day weekend. Police say they are close to making arrests in two of the cases, but detectives, as of Wednesday, had no leads or motives in a majority of the crimes. “Four […]

James “JB” Brown, author, three-time Emmy award winning television host, and sports commentator gave the keynote speech this week at the Metro Maryland Youth for Christ (MMYFC) fundraiser held at Martin’s West. Brown gave not only words of encouragement, but even shared some of his deepest challenges, such as the loss of his mother, and […]

A Baltimore jury convicted a political consultant of conspiracy but acquitted him May 11 of a wider role in the robocalls scandal of election day 2010. Julius Henson, a political consultant from East Baltimore, faces up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for failing to include an authority line in an automated […]

Morgan State University’s Modern Dance Ensemble put on a phenomenal show April 28 at its 35th Annual Spring Concert, under the direction of Dr. Lantha Tucker. Tucker started this dance ensemble 35 years ago and has brought many young men and ladies together through dance over the years. She has done a fantastic job at […]

“No field impacts a young person’s life like education does,” says newly named Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, S. Dallas Dance, Ph.D., on why learning is so important to him. Currently chief officer of over 200,000 students in Houston Public Middle Schools, Dance will officially take over as superintendent July 1, an amazing feat […]

Known as the “City of the Dead for Colored People,” Mt. Auburn Cemetery was once the only place an African American in Baltimore City could be buried with dignity. For well over a decade the cemetery sat in Cherry Hill just off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in the most extreme state of disarray. Now, ten years […]

Friends and family of Marilyn Oliver Pickett are remembering her this week as a woman of excellence and great strength. Pickett, a member of Baltimore’s famed Murphy family, died May 3 at the Holy Cross Hospital in Wheaton, Md., after succumbing to a series of protracted illnesses. She was 65. “My fondest memories are of […]

Dr. Dolan Hubbard, professor and chairperson of the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University is gearing up to cap off an amazing opportunity. He has spent the 2012 spring semester at Harvard University as a Shelia Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American research. […]