Category: Baltimore News

Several Baltimore County residents are up in arms about a new councilmanic redistricting plan that would shift Woodlawn’s Social Security Complex and thousands of residents out of the only Black lawmaker’s district. Represented by Councilman Kenneth Oliver, the 4th District is economically rich and home to several federal planned developments, coined the Woodlawn Enterprise Zone. […]

Circuit Court Judge Marcella A. Holland has been a pioneer since she was 12-years-old. As one of the first Black students to integrate the junior high school in her rural hometown of Cooksville, in Maryland’s Howard County, Holland set the stage for future “first” accomplishments. They include her prestige as the first Black woman appointed […]

More than a month after his nephew was murdered following an attempt to chase down a would-be robber, Congressman Elijah Cummings wants to ensure that other witnesses implicated in violent crimes are kept safe. Cummings on July 26 introduced the Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2011, which would allow the Attorney General […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Authorities say a 7-month-old baby and his teenager baby sitter who disappeared from Baltimore have been found in northeast Washington. D.C. police spokesman Officer Anthony Clay says the baby, Ki’Yauhn Birch, and the teenager were found in the 4400 block of Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue early Monday morning. Clay says the baby […]

Baltimore City Councilwoman Helen Holton recently expressed her relief after Maryland’s highest court upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss her criminal charges on bribery and perjury. “I am overjoyed and glad that it’s finally over, and I thank God for doing only what he could do—that’s uphold the innocent,” Holton told the AFRO in a […]

Baltimore City residents are widely perceived as apathetic to the city’s political process, but many have a lot to say about the city’s upcoming mayoral election. The AFRO took to the city’s streets, schools, restaurants and supermarkets to ask everyday Baltimoreans what issues matter most in the city. Public safety, property taxes and job creation […]

A trial for the contentious legal case involving the state and a coalition of students and alumni from Maryland’s four HBCUs has been postponed until December. The presiding judge over the federal case, Catherine C. Blake, ordered the state and coalition to have “continued mediation” until a jury trial now scheduled for the first week […]

The nation’s oldest Black lawyers and judges association will host its 86th annual convention in Baltimore later this month. The D.C.-based National Bar Association (NBA) will draw an estimated 1,200 Black lawyers, judges, educators and law students to Baltimore for the convention, which will be held at Hilton Baltimore in downtown July 31 through Aug. […]

When people hear “jury service,” they usually think of a trial jury. But there is another kind of jury, comprised of the same pool of citizens, that plays an equally important role in our justice system: the grand jury. The grand jury was established by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. Federal grand juries are […]

The public is invited to receive information and express its views on the proposed redistricting plan for the state’s Legislative and Congressional redistricting. Jeanne D. Hitchcock, chair of the Governor’s Redistricting Advisory Committee (GRAC) recently announced the schedule of the 12 hearings; the first of them is 11 a.m., July 23 in the Hancock High […]