Stephanie Poplar launched her nonprofit formation and public relations business four years ago, seeking the autonomy entrepreneurship offers. “I knew I wanted to go into business for myself because I wanted the freedom and flexibility,” she said. Like other Black female business owners, however, she faced a multitude of challenges—navigating the natural learning curve, having […]
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Baptist Hold Historic Candidates Forum
Several hundred pastors, officers and lay members representing churches affiliated with the United Baptist Missionary Convention and Auxiliaries of Maryland (UBMC) assembled at Wayland Baptist Church in West Baltimore to witness the group’s inaugural candidates’ forum. In compliance with recently adopted revisions to the UBMC constitution and by-laws, pastors seeking to become officers must compete […]
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Africare Celebrates Black Leadership at 2014 Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner
Africare, the oldest and largest African-American led non-profit committed to advancing development in Africa, hosted more than 500 global leaders including South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, Civil Rights Activist Andrew Young and President Emertia of Bennett College for Women Julianne Malveaux, on April 5 at its annual Bishop John T. Walker Memorial Dinner and fundraiser […]
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Ex-President Carter: US ‘Dormant’ on Inequality
by Paul J. Weber AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter on Tuesday night lamented continuing inequalities between Black and White Americans during a 50th anniversary celebration of the Civil Rights Act in Texas that will feature four of the five living U.S. presidents this week. Carter said “too many people are at ease” […]
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Md. Lawmakers Pass Minimum Wage Increase
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly on its last full day of the session Monday gave final approval to incremental increases in the state’s minimum wage over several years to $10.10 by 2018. The House of Delegates voted 87-47 for the measure, sending it to Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley, who made the bill […]
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Md. Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland’s legislature has given final approval to a bill that would eliminate criminal charges for possessing small amounts of marijuana, and the governor says he plans to sign it. The Senate voted Monday to accept several compromises the House added over the weekend. The bill would keep marijuana use illegal but […]
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Senate OKs Long-Term Unemployed Benefits Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted 59-38 Monday to resurrect federal jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, and a small band of Republican supporters swiftly appealed to a reluctant Speaker John Boehner to permit election-year action in the House as well. Steps are needed “to restore unemployment benefits to struggling Americans,” seven House Republicans wrote […]
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Statement by President Obama on the 20th Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda
The White House-Washington D.C. We join with the people of Rwanda in marking twenty years since the beginning of the genocide that took the lives of so many innocents and which shook the conscience of the world. We honor the memory of the more than 800,000 men, women and children who were senselessly slaughtered simply […]
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Maryland Senate Approves Minimum Wage Increase Leading to $10.10 Wage
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Senate voted Saturday to increase the state’s minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $8 in January, the first in a series of incremental hikes that will lead to a $10.10 wage in July 2018. The Senate voted 34-13, with all of the support coming from Democratic senators. All […]
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S.C. Judge Who First Wrote Separate is Not Equal Lauded
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — In a little-known chapter of American history, a federal judge who was the son of a Confederate soldier and presided in the city where the Civil War began was the first judge in the nation to write that segregated schools are unequal schools since separate but equal became the law of […]
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Baltimore’s 40th District Delegates Facing-off Against Myriad of Diverse Challengers
(Updated 4/4/2014) With the end of the 2014 session of the General Assembly next week, and as legislators return home to focus more energy on their districts, a hotly-contested battle is shaping up in Maryland’s 40th legislative district in a 10-person race that is pitting veteran incumbents against a long list of motivated challengers. The […]
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Emotions High After False Alarm of Gunman at West Baltimore Charter School
As police evacuated KIPP Academy in west Baltimore following reports of a possible gunman at the school April 3, anxious parents waited behind police lines for news of their children. “Heartbreaking. You don’t know what to do,” said Tierra Young, mother of a six-year old in the academy. “This is the worst experience I could […]