Category: Baltimore News

Panelists from a local interfaith organization grilled Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and three of her leading Democratic challengers Aug. 25 about their commitment to youth opportunities and employment and their investment in uptown. Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), which represents a reported 150 city congregations, hosted the mayoral forum inside the nation’s first Black Catholic […]

Baltimore City Councilwoman Rochelle “Rikki” Spector has been systematically re-elected to represent her Northwest Baltimore district for 30 years. “I wasn’t even born ,” said Curtis E. Jones, one of three Black candidates vying for Spector’s seat during this year’s election. Jones, a 26-year-old entertainment company head, says Spector has “slid her way” into office […]

Morgan Turner-Cohen, a senior at Baltimore Freedom Academy High School, says conditions at school are almost unbearable. “I have to sit in classrooms with mittens and gloves and a hat,” she said. “I shouldn’t have to do that to focus on my work, shivering, writing my numbers on my notepad.”? The Baltimore County-bred teenager moved […]

Charles Village residents and workers poured into the streets Tuesday afternoon as a 5.9 earthquake sent tremors up and down the East coast. Felt in New York City and as far south as North Carolina, for many this was a once in a lifetime encounter with Mother Nature. “I always wanted to go to California […]

CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Joe Hairston is challenging school leaders to do a better job this school year even as the school system has cut nearly 200 teaching positions. The Baltimore Sun reports Hairston delivered his 12th annual speech to open the academic year Friday. Maryland’s third-largest school system opens Aug. […]

Mayoral candidates for Baltimore City gathered together early Tuesday morning to debate the issues on WOLB 1010 AM Larry Young Morning Show. Noticeably present, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings -Blake joined the conversation to share her plans to combat the tough issues facing the city. “I’m not running away from my political record,” said Mayor Rawlings-Blake, as […]

Baltimore City’s Black state lawmakers are fighting to ensure the city and the state’s Black populations don’t lose political clout when legislative and congressional lines are redrawn during this year’s redistricting process. Baltimore City was the only jurisdiction in the state to lose population over the last 10 years, which means it must pick up […]

At 8-years-old, Emmanuel Jackson was placed with the Department of Social Services, after years of abuse by his mother. By 18, he said he was “thrown to the wolves” and ended up homeless. “This was before the program ‘Ready by 21,’” he said. Homeless programs, including the Baltimore Homeless Youth Initiative and Healthcare for the […]

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — A project that will be the centerpiece of an effort to honor Harriet Tubman is getting federal funding. Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to announce $8.5 million for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center in Cambridge on Tuesday. The center is meant to tie together a state park, scenic byway […]

When Maryland became the second state in the nation to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday, former Del. Kenneth Webster was the person to thank. It was his legislation that brought the holiday here. Now, his service has ended. The two term member of the Maryland General Assembly, considered by […]

After helping to subdue the late-night crowd in front of Select Lounge in January, Officer William H. Torbit Jr. was gunned down by fellow officers in a flurry of bullets, 12 of which penetrated his body. After months of delayed, hush-hush investigations and speculation, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Greg Bernstein officially shed some light on […]

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is once again tightening its belt with severe budget cuts and office closures. The company that delivers “40 percent of the world’s mail” has slowly but surely begun the process of closing an alarming number of its doors. A staple in American communities since its inception in 1775, the […]