Category: Prince George’s County News

Richard W. Collins, III was killed in a stabbing while waiting at the bus stop below Annapolis Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, May 20. He was 23. A University of Maryland student has been accused by police of the killing. The student, Sean Christopher Urbanski, of Severna Park, is White, while Collins, a Bowie […]

Jack is coming back. Former Prince George’s County Executive Jack B. Johnson is scheduled to be released from custody, after serving more than five years in Federal prison for one of the most highly publicized corruption cases in the state, on June 10. Johnson, who continues to profess his innocence, has filed a motion to […]

A federal judge has removed another issue that could have blocked construction of a light rail in Maryland. The Washington Post reports that on May 30, the judge dismissed part of a lawsuit that alleged the environmental review of the Purple Line violated protections on endangered species and migratory birds. Maryland officials can appeal the remaining […]

District resident Sonja Houze knew it was time to change her life. Houze, now 53, was raised to eat right and stay active. But by the time she joined the Prime Time Sister Circle in 2008, she wasn’t exercising. She’d forgotten how to eat healthy and chowing down on fast food had become a way […]

Young members of the NAACP are calling on the University of Maryland, College Park to include student activists on a task force the school is forming after the stabbing death of a Black student from a neighboring university. Student activists. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Police are investigating the death of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins […]

Most of the young adults who filled the Community of Hope A.M.E. church in Temple Hills, Md. on May 28 were not yet born when civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson made a bid for the White House in 1984. Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered a sermon at Community of Hope A.M.E. church in Prince George’s […]

If Maryland State Sen. C. Anthony Muse (D-26), as many political insiders expect, announces his candidacy for Prince George’s County Executive and goes on to win, it will culminate 20 years of public service and one of the most amazing rises in state politics in recent memory. Md. Sen. C Anthony Muse may run for […]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. delivered a sermon in Prince George’s County on May 28 that addressed President Donald Trump’s recent budget proposal and the rise of hate crimes. Jackson, founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, an organization fighting for social change, spoke to parishioners and guests at the Community of Hope A.M.E. Church, located […]

The Martin Luther King Communications Arts Center at Bowie State University was filled with community leaders, grieving soldiers and raw emotions on the night of May 22. Seated in the auditorium were members of Congress, Maryland state senators and the Chief of the University of Maryland Police, who is investigating the death of Richard Collins, […]

Phelecia Nembhard can’t count how many times she drives a van filled with bags of groceries up and down Good Luck  Road. Phelecia Nembhard and Rev Tammy Rinker outside Trinity Moravia Church. (Photo by Hamil Harris) Even though she is a successful realtor, Nembhard’s passion to help others stems from the community work her mother did in […]

California Rep. Maxine Waters (D) has never been one to mince words or shy away from a good political fight during her more than 20 years in Congress. On May 19 at Southern Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Temple Hills, Md. she provided more than 100 VIP guests with an earful about the upcoming election […]