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*When I graduated from college the first time followed my dreams and became a newspaper and television news reporter. I traveled across the country covering stories, one of the most memorable was when I met Nelson Mandela during his visit to the United States after his release from a South African prison. When I graduated [...]
*Cruising around the world has been a dream for many families for some time. But as the cruise ship industry falters time and time again, cruising may be a dream voluntarily deferred. On Sunday, Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas, which cruises out of Baltimore, Maryland, joined ranks with Carnival cruise line with a tragic [...]
*A funeral service will be held in Baltimore today for Robert F. Chew, the actor best known for his role as narcotics kingpin Proposition Joe on HBO’s “The Wire.” As previously reported, the actor and teacher died Jan. 17 of apparent heart failure while asleep in his Baltimore home. He was 52. In addition to [...]
*It’s getting pretty dangerous on the public transit system these days. Bus drivers are having some “postal” issues and going berzerko on their riders. Of course the Cleveland bus driver, Artis Hughes, is known all over the world by now for the infamous upper cut he gave one of his riders and, as we reported [...]
*Brian McKnight is still feeling the repercussions of making an “adult” song that talked about very particular lady parts. The singer performed at a Baltimore festival on Friday and had critics cringing at the mere thought that he may sing that one kinky kind of song in front of the kids. “Of course we were [...]
*Who’s writing these laws that are supposed to protect us? We’ve seen the horrendous flaws of the “Stand Your Ground” law in the Trayvon Martin case. We’ve also seen children arrested because police call themselves following the law. What law condones this? Now citizens are being victimized by yet another law that allows folks to [...]
*There have been numerous comparisons to the Trayvon Martin case, but none of them the same. All of the cases take from different aspects of it, but the injustices are similar. Hate is hate no matter how you slice it and Baltimore has a case that stopped just short of a tragedy. Two orthodox Jewish [...]
**The injustice and brutal force from inner city police against African Americans is unrelenting. Anytime the age and gender of a suspect has no bearing on how they will be treated, there is a serious problem. The state of Maryland is in the middle of a heated debate over the issue of arresting and handcuffing [...]
The streets are getting more dangerous by the minute when tourists aren’t safe to take in the sights in major cities throughout the U.S. One man is grasping for answers to a severe beating he took as he woke up in his hotel room with no way of knowing how he became so severely injured. [...]
*Cities across America have seen crimes intensify during the recession. But, not all cities are suffering. Somehow, Baltimore made it out of 2011 unscathed. Well, in comparison to previous years, the crime rate has lowered considerably. According to Baltimore’s local NBC affiliate WBAL, the (more…)
*This Black Friday was just like any other. The lines were wrapped around the stores and all of the shoppers abandoned any remnant of home training to get what they wanted. The day should be re-labeled Fat Friday as a part two to Fat Tuesday. It’s the only other time of year that people lose [...]
*The nation is not that far past the horrors of the pre-civil rights movement era. There has been lynchings and ridiculous racist behavior in the midst of a time that is supposed to be so progressive that the U.S. elected its first black president. But even he has not been safe from the racial discord still found in [...]
*Before they became part of the R&B landscape with such provocative hits as “Tell Me” and “In My Bed,” the Baltimore R&B quartet Dru Hill actually decided to become a gospel group, believing it came with an easier road to a record deal. But that lasted only several months. Fate interceded and the group signed [...]
*”The Wire” actress Felicia Pearson has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to sell heroin. The one-time drug dealer in real life was arrested along with 37 other suspects during a March 10th raid by police in Baltimore, Maryland on an alleged drugs ring. Pearson, who was jailed for more than six years for killing a [...]
*If you don’t know the name remember it, Datari Turner, this film and television producer is quietly taking over Hollywood working his way to becoming one of its best. This former Ford model turned actor has made a successful transition into a film/television writer and producer. One of four major projects Turner has for 2011 [...]
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