
A neighborhood association representing Roland Parkers has apologized after its newsletter recently discouraged the display of issue-based yard signs, referring to them as “clutter” prohibited under city zoning code.
A neighborhood association representing Roland Parkers has apologized after its newsletter recently discouraged the display of issue-based yard signs, referring to them as “clutter” prohibited under city zoning code.
Citing ‘clutter,’ Roland Park asks residents to take down Black Lives Matter, pro-immigration signs — Baltimore Sun
Public Defenders: Thousands Of Cases Connected To Indicted Officers Should Be Tossed — CBS Baltimore
Tomorrowland: Port Covington will be like nothing Baltimore has ever seen. But at what cost? — Baltimore magazine
Why this personalized learning startup is now offering a print product — Technical.ly
One injured after house explodes in Baltimore Highlands — ABC2
The Russian government bought thousands of Facebook ads leading up to the 2016 presidential election in order to sow soci0-political chaos in the United States. According to a new report, Baltimore was one of their targeted markets.
Baltimore officials to move homeless at ‘Tent City’ to shelter — Baltimore Sun
Taxi business booming in Baltimore, despite competition with Uber — Fox45
Lutherville church’s Black Lives Matter sign vandalized a sixth time — Baltimore Brew
Majority of Maryland students failing to pass PARCC exams — ABC2
David Simon Discusses New HBO Series The Deuce — Baltimore magazine
Baltimore City Public Schools’ highest-profile employee is leaving his North Avenue office behind.
Children who survived fire improve; vigil held – WBAL-TV
Rep. Anthony Brown skipping Donald Trump’s inauguration after John Lewis criticism – Baltimore Sun
Wells Fargo Rejects Baltimore Teacher’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Debit Card – The Root
For Ravens, an AFC title game between Steelers, Patriots is painful – ESPN
Volunteers hold community clean ups for Martin Luther King Jr. Day – ABC2
While lots of people were looking to avoid politics over Thanksgiving dinner, Rebecca Malstrom decided to wear a Black Lives Matter shirt to the family gathering. It may have defied her family, but the internet liked the way she went around the rules.
Although the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture opened Saturday in the heart of Washington, the state of Maryland from which D.C. was carved has a strong presence.
DeRay Mckesson is a prominent Black Lives Matter activist. He’s also the interim human capital officer for Baltimore City schools. “Some” “critics” have a problem with that.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, University of Baltimore MFA student Roxanne V. Young remembers her mom’s sage advice on black pride, self-confidence, and still more.
My mother was the consummate teacher in the classroom and in life.
It was a frigid January afternoon, but I was enjoying the warmth of rare one-on-one time with my mother. We both had skipped school that day to celebrate my 10th birthday. On January 18, 1965 we sat down at the lunch counter at a Baltimore Woolworth’s. It was my first time dining out with my mother. While we waited for the waitress, she took a few minutes to discreetly give me a quick lesson on proper table etiquette.
“DeRay Mckesson will not be the next mayor of Baltimore,” reads the opening of the New York Times Magazine profile of the Black Lives Matter activist who announced his candidacy two months ago, to much fanfare. “He’s a 30-year-old with no experience in city government who registered less than 1 percent in a recent poll. He has no clear local support network and has been rejected by his most likely constituency — the city’s young black activists.”
“I realize many candidates wouldn’t want my endorsement,” Baltimore filmmaker John Waters concedes in a short Twitter video. “And sure the two front-runners in the election would do a good job if they won, but would anything really change?”
Think Progress – A new Baltimore Sun poll of likely voters in the city’s upcoming Democratic mayoral primary shows 30-year-old Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson with less than one percent support, way behind leading candidates Democratic State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh (26 percent support) and former Mayor Sheila Dixon (24 percent).
Makayla Gilliam-Price, the 17-year-old Baltimore activist who penned a blog post that got a high-ranking police officer in hot water over his callous tweets, has earned a profile in the Washington Post as a “rising voice in Baltimore’s Black Lives Matters” movement.