Category: Baltimore News

Looking to expand Baltimore City’s Safe Streets program, the Baltimore City Health Department’s Office of Youth Violence Prevention has sent out a call to all organizations looking to help create a safer city. Offering a $375,000 grant to the organization looking to act as lead agency for Safe Streets Baltimore, the program is targeted at […]

Lloyd Carter, deputy chief of recruitment for the Baltimore Fire Department, is suing Baltimore City and the fire department for racial discrimination in employment. Carter, who is Black, alleges in the federal lawsuit that he was passed over for promotions and subject to internal affairs investigations because of his race. He is seeking $3 million […]

Douglass students never tire of celebrating the greatness of their school and it alumna, so the Class of 1976 recently rolled out the Red Carpet and hosted a reunion to be remembered. Until the next one. “We, who are members of the reunion committee have continued to receive accolades since the evening of the banquet […]

Last month Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced her intention to more than double the bottle tax that she raised last year from two cents to five cents, all in an effort to physically bolster many of the city’s crumbling public schools. “We have reached a breaking point and it’s time to act now,” she said during […]

The Crossroads restaurant inside the Radisson Cross Keys in North Baltimore bills itself as, “the premier location for a power breakfast.” Of course the city’s veteran power brokers are well aware of that fact without the eatery’s advertisement. So, it’s no accident a group of prominent Baltimore pastors have been meeting at the Crossroads every […]

Davonia Grogan, the older sister of 15-year old Affrika Clarke finally got the news she was hoping for; her little sister who had been missing since November 30 was found alive Monday, December 12. Still, several questions remain connected to the disappearance of the teen from her West Philadelphia neighborhood. “I got a text from […]

Dr. A. Skipp Sanders, interim executive director of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, is the son of a Baltimore City Police officer and a factory worker. Despite his blue-collar upbringing he says that education was a vital component of the backbone of his working class family. His mother’s ambition to pursue a degree in education […]

Black Friday is over and Cyber Monday has passed, but merchants are open and hoping to profit off the most lucrative shopping season of the year. But with the rebounding economy, are consumers planning to spend more or less? “I am spending less because the economy is messed up,” said Sheree Boyd of Baltimore. “I’ve […]

The battle continues over the future of nearly half the city’s recreational centers. Gregory Baylor, director of Recreation and Parks, and Recreation Bureau Chief Bill Tyler met with residents at the Chick Webb Recreation Center on Nov. 30 in an attempt to gain community support for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake’s plan to hand over the […]

Paul Schurick, political aide to former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich was found guilty by a Baltimore jury on Dec. 6 for conspiring to curb Black voter turnout during the 2010 gubernatorial election. According to the Associated Press, Schurick was convicted on all the four charges he faced including conspiring to fraudulently influence a voter’s decision […]

Legend has it that nobody knew exactly how fast Lenny Moore, the great National Football League Hall of Fame half-back and flanker for the Baltimore Colts, actually was. They say he ran just fast enough to not ever be caught from behind. But as phenomenal as he was on the field perhaps the greatest measure […]