Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy, an all boy’s middle school in downtown Baltimore, is fighting against obesity by serving healthy lunches to their students. Through Revolution Foods, a partner with Whole Foods Market, Saint Ignatius is able to provide whole wheat bread, fruits and vegetables to the students. Child obesity has increased nearly 20 percent since 1980, […]

Baltimore City Police broke up student-led efforts to end homelessness Nov. 19 as they dispersed crowds who gathered for A Bench Is Not A Bed: Sleep-Out 2011. Not to be confused with the current Occupy movements across the country, this second annual event calls attention to the more than 640,000 men, women, and children who […]

Maryland Department of the Environment Secretary Robert M. Summers recently awarded prizes for a larger-than-life portrait of Lady Gaga and depictions of a fish, a great blue heron, and a giraffe – all made from reused materials – at the 10th annual “Rethink Recycling” Sculpture Contest, hosted by MDE. The contest challenges Maryland high school […]

Leaving behind a legacy that has forever changed the face of the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPS), former superintendent Dr. John Crew passed away Nov. 19 at FutureCare Lochearn after a hard fought battle with dementia. Setting in place measures that permanently shaped policies and procedures in inner city schools, Dr. Crew served as […]

Gathering on the corner of Stricker and Presstman streets, members, family, and friends of the historic Sharon Baptist Church, came together Nov. 13 to honor their leader, the Rev. Dr. Alfred Corrigan Daniel Vaughn. Pastor of the congregation since 1986, Dr. Vaughn was recognized not only for his 25 years of diligent service to the […]

Hundreds of students and alumni of Morgan State University gathered in the Student Center Theater on Nov. 11 to witness the unveiling of a civil rights exhibit commemorating student led sit-ins and protests dating back to 1947. City and State officials addressed the packed auditorium and congratulated the students from the past who paved the […]

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — Virginia State Police say three people were killed in a multi-vehicle wreck on Interstate 85 in the southeast part of the state. All three deaths Friday morning were occupants of pickup truck that was involved in a collision with a logging truck and a chartered bus. State Police Sgt. Thomas Molnar […]