Category: Baltimore News

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 […]

Perhaps the most raucous Spelling Bee in history took place earlier this month at the Brown Center at the Maryland Institute College of Art. That night the auditorium rocked with the fervor of a college pep rally due in large part to the jaunty performances of the Coppin State University Pep Band during the glitzy […]

Morgan State University assumes its rightful place in this country’s civil rights history after university officials, joined by civil rights activist and U.S. Rep. John Lewis (Ga.), Rep. Elijah Cummings, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, honored more than 150 Morgan State College alumni who picketed, protested and, in many cases, were arrested […]

Freddy Jones Jr. only stopped into the Yau Brothers Carryout on Halloween to get a quick dinner for himself before heading to work, where he operated a shuttle bus for Thurgood Marshall Airport. Jones had no clue that as he patiently waited for his order, talking on his cell phone, the last minutes of his […]

Streets across America have become the sounding board for the majority that refuses to remain silent in such turbulent economic times. The cry is for jobs, for economic justice, for a fair shake at making a decent living. AFRO reporters hit the streets of Baltimore to engage those who are struggling with unemployment and the […]