Category: Baltimore News

Oyin Handmade, is a fast growing business owned and operated by two dynamic African American entrepreneurs. As co-owners of Oyin Handmade -an all-natural body and hair care product line, husband and wife team Pierre and Jamyla Bennu have managed to take a business born in a basement to heights they only dreamt about. Long before […]

The faster the snowflakes fell, the slower Baltimore moved over the past week. Streets and cars were buried in over 4 feet of snow, holding residents hostage as the city’s worst blizzard since 1922 released its fury. Phase one of the storm – Feb. 5-6 – covered the city in over 30 inches of snow. […]

On Sunday, Feb. 14, women across Maryland will fill churches, synagogues and other places of worship in a sea of red hues. However, these women will not don the color in honor of Valentine’s Day. For the sixth year, Baltimore’s Saint Agnes Hospital has encouraged women to wear red in support of their annual heart […]

BALTIMORE – Stacked pallets of food, drinks and condiments line the aisles of an 87,000-square-foot warehouse —bread loaves and dinner rolls, frozen goods, dented and disfigured cakes. It may look like a Costco Wholesale store, but there’s a major difference —everything here at the Maryland Food Bank is free and available to needy and hungry […]

A massive winter storm blanketed the Mid-Atlantic region on Feb. 5 and 6, dumping more than 2 feet of snow on the Baltimore-Washington area. Snow accumulated at an estimated rate of 2 inches per hour over Friday night into Saturday morning, bringing travel through most of the area to a near-standstill. The National Weather Service […]

” … for such a time as this.” Those words offered by the Rev. Bruce Haskins during the welcome and opening prayer at the swearing in of Baltimore City’s new mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, echoed the truth of this moment in the history of the city. In a quiet, somber ceremony Feb. 4 in the Ceremony […]

Dr. John L. Wright was what could be called a persistent advocate; he seized every opportunity to make his voice heard. He even turned his AFRO church directory ad into a personal billboard, decrying injustice, encouraging protest, signifying that which had been determined to be insignificant. On Jan. 28, Wright – a pastor, preacher, husband […]

Elected officials and local leaders in Baltimore City say they are working diligently to get the word out about the April 1 census distribution. They don’t want a reoccurrence of the poor participation rate that dismissed 12 delegates and a state senator from Annapolis 10 years ago. According to the Complete Count Committee, the city […]

Over 5,000 kids will be off the streets this summer. Multiply that by 35 years and you’ll get the approximate number of high school and college students YouthWorks has employed since it first began in Baltimore City. Evolving from a summer program that organized youth into beautification crews which cleaned up the city for minimum […]

Friends, family and city leaders gathered at The Milan, Baltimore’s newest Italian restaurant and lounge, to bid farewell to former mayor Sheila Dixon.

Regional efforts to curb violent crime in Washington, D.C., and Maryland have been effective and both jurisdictions have the numbers to prove it. Those were the sentiments expressed this week in a meeting led by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, as the pair launched into the next phase of […]

The Rev. Dr. John L. Wright, long time pastor of the First Baptist Church of Guilford, died late Jan 28. At the helm of the church for nearly 40 years, Rev. Wright’s service was not limited to his congregation. He had also served as the head of the United Baptist Missionary Convention of Maryland, the […]