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Back to School Kick-off prepares Baltimore City scholars for...
2+ week, 1+ day ago (110+ words) Back to School Kick-off prepares Baltimore City scholars for return to classroom AFRO News Back to School Kick-off prepares Baltimore City scholars for return to classroom Baltimore’s Back to School Kick-Off gave hundreds of families supplies and community resources as…...
Baltimore ranks No. 2 in violence prevention as city develop...
2+ week, 2+ day ago (542+ words) Baltimore ranked second in the Community Justice Action Fund’s (CJAF) 2025 Violence Prevention Index (VPI) with a score of 85 out of 100 points. The yearly national analysis assesses the programs, services and policies cities have established to reduce gun and other forms…...
Immigrant families, advocates ask federal court to stop new...
2+ week, 6+ day ago (359+ words) We Are CASA and ASAP seek urgent relief after administration issues second order targeting children born in the U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, immigrant families along with We Are CASA and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), represented by Georgetown Law’s Institute for…...
Barber takes Moral Mondays from protest to the polls
2+ week, 6+ day ago (683+ words) The Moral Mondays leader is taking his fight to churches and neighborhoods — and ultimately to the ballot box. After weeks of public protests, prayer vigils and arrests in Washington, D.C., activist Bishop William J. Barber II says the national moral…...
Go-Go faithful celebrate Chuck Brown despite family-organize...
2+ week, 6+ day ago (632+ words) Thousands of devout fans and followers of the “Godfather of Go-Go” swarmed the grounds of Fort Dupont Park in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Aug. 22 for the 12th Annual Chuck Brown Day despite disputes between Brown’s family and organizers that threatened…...
‘The Reunion’ to celebrate NMAAHC’s decade of preserving Bla...
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (319+ words) “It is an absolute privilege to celebrate NMAAHC’s first decade on the National Mall—a dream more than 100 years in the making.” — Acting Museum Director Shanita Brackett “For 10 years, we have preserved our history within these walls,” Brackett said. “This…...
How Globe Poster Printing Corp. preserved Black history, one...
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (353+ words) For more than 80 years, Globe Poster Printing Corp. quietly documented Black history from its Baltimore headquarters without ever intending to become part of it. That legacy was celebrated in the exhibit “People Get Ready: A Century of Posters – A Visual…...
The Black Church can’t fight HIV without confronting its pas...
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (881+ words) HIV remains a serious public health crisis, with Black people accounting for about 40 percent of people living with HIV despite representing just 12 percent of the U.S. population. Stigma and societal norms continue to derail vital conversations around the epidemic — a public…...
Meet 4 of the 16 Black business owners inside the historic H...
3+ week, 1+ day ago (494+ words) Dark red bricks and steeply pitched gables define a historic home in Baltimore’s Old Goucher neighborhood that now houses more than 15 Black-owned businesses. From a perfumery and hairstylist to an esthetician and vintage clothing shop, the James E. Hooper House…...
18-year-old suspect in the Jada Sellers homicide found dead
3+ week, 1+ day ago (361+ words) Christian Hursey, an 18-year-old suspect in the Jada Sellers homicide investigation, suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Aug. 20, 2026, authorities said. Members of the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit and Baltimore County Police Department’s SWAT Team said they heard a…...