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Baltimore African-American Festival celebrates its 35th year

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Nicole Fuller - Jul. 02 (News) - In its 35th year, the event is billed as the largest African-American festival in the country, attracting 500,000 visitors to the parking lot of M&T Bank Stadium over its two-day run with a host of musical acts, health and wellness information, and vendors hawking everything from jewelry to funnel cakes.

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'Little Willie' Adams had his hand in many business ventures

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Frederick N. Rasmussen - Jul. 02 (News) - The other evening, former Baltimore Sun reporters Antero Pietila and C. Fraser Smith sat in the studios of WYPR radio discussing the life and times of William Lloyd "Little Willie" Adams, who died Monday at 97. Adams, who went from numbers runner to venture capitalist during his 60-year career, bankrolled some of the most prominent black-owned businesses in the city when regular banks wouldn't.

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Baltimore Lost a Legend with William Adams' Death

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

North Baltimore Patch - By Michael Olesker - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - Little Willie went from brokering illegal numbers operations to being a political power broker in Baltimore.

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Legendary Baltimore Businessman Dies at 97

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

blackamericaweb.com - By Sean Yoes - Jul. 01 (News) - Legend has it that the larger-than-life figure known as William “Little Willie” Adams was once robbed by someone who obviously knew not what he had done.

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The Legendary ‘Little Willie’ Adams, Dead at 97

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By Shernay Williams - Jun. 30 (News) - The West Baltimore businessman, real estate tycoon, venture capitalist and political heavyweight who famously had an illegal gambling conviction overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, died June 27 from pneumonia at the age of 97.

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Numbers runner, venture capitalist – and booster of Baltimore’s black middle class

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Antero Pietila - Jun. 29 (News) - With all the focus on "Little Willie" Adams as a racketeer, another part of his legacy has been nearly lost - his role in promoting the culture that made Pennsylvania Avenue so famous between World War II and the early 1960s. We celebrate the myth of the old Royal Theater. Maybe, instead, we should be honoring William L. Adams.

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Reverend Wright brings his anti-American crusade to Baltimore

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Marta Mossburg - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - Forget hope and change; victimization is in. Dropped by the president and dismissed as a racist by many Americans, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright still draws crowds with his sometimes crotch-grabbing, always riveting soliloquies about black oppression.

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Josh Kurtz: White Prince George’s

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center Maryland - By Josh Kurtz - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - vestiges of another time – when whites were in the majority and held all the political power (and had a monopoly on unseemliness) are still in evidence.

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Ehrlich campaign aide indicted yet race seems to play the bigger role in charges

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Examiner - By Hassan Giordano - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - On Thursday afternoon, State Prosecutor Emmit Davitt secured a multiple account indictment against two former Ehrlich campaign operatives, based on last year’s Election Day phone calls aimed at two of Maryland’s predominately African American jurisdictions - Baltimore City and Prince George’s County. Continue reading on Examiner.com Ehrlich campaign aide indicted yet race seems to play the bigger role in charges - Baltimore Independent | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-baltimore/ehrlich-campaign-aides-indicted-yet-does-race-plays-the-biggest-role-charges#ixzz1Pe6mxsiA

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Ehrlich campaign robocalls could provide ammo for Democrats

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Annie Linskey - Jun. 17 (News) - The Ehrlich campaign's alleged effort to keep blacks from voting last November could have the opposite effect for years to come, according to political observers who said indictments over the automated phone calls would become election-season fodder for Democrats.

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Robocall case: rare glimpse at cynical attitudes toward black voters

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Fern Shen - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - A secret campaign to suppress the votes of black Marylanders in the 2010 election has led to the indictment of two Republican operatives on election law violations. A total of 112,544 robocalls were allegedly made to black Democratic voters last November on election day, with a prerecorded message that "we took it back" and there was no need to vote.

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Juneteenth

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WYPR - By Sheilah Kast - Jun. 17 (News Analysis) - Where will Marylanders be commemorating emancipation this weekend? Sheilah finds out from representatives of the National Juneteenth Museum and the Maryland Historical Society.

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Baltimore Renaissance Project

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

What Weekly - By Justin Allen - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - Recently, we were asked to visit New Era Academy in Cherry Hill, by 7th grade teacher Jessica Gartner, to talk to the students and take part in a concept called The Baltimore Renaissance Project, a project that examines how the arts can be used as a vehicle for social change and cultural revolution. It was there that we were introduced to another organization whose aim is to counter negative stereotypes through creativity, positivity, and good will.

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Oklahoma Civil Rights Activist Clara Luper Dies at 88

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By Ashley Crawford - Jun. 10 (News) - In August, 1958, as the sponsor of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council, Luper, at the time a 35 year-old school teacher, led three adult chaperones and 35 teenagers in a lunch counter sit-in at Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City where store owners refused to serve African Americans.

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Agents of Change

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Urbanite - By Michael Anft - Jun. 01 (News Analysis) - The black female/black church/big donor formula—the long-honored trifecta of city politics—isn't the instant winner of a ticket it used to be, or so say some Baltimore technology entrepreneurs and artists.

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'Remember Me' Works to Memorialize Missing, Murdered Black Women

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By Shernay Williams - May. 27 (News) - Like so many around the country, Victoria Kent was horrified by the disappearance of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes. But while many residents merely followed Barnes story, Kent, 23, was inspired into action.

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Don't build a new youth jail in Baltimore

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Hathaway Ferebee - May. 23 (Opinion) - A recent report from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency demonstrates clearly that the state's plan for a $100 million jail to house Baltimore City youths charged as adults is way out of line. But the answer is not necessarily a smaller jail, either.

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Beachwood Park Memoirs

Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Lee Gardner - May. 18 (News) - Yvonne Leacock picks her way along the faint path through the trees, ducking under a tree limb fallen halfway across the trail, searching for something, anything familiar. In her 70s but looking at least a decade younger, she says she hasn’t set foot on this wooded patch above the north bank of Magothy River near Pasadena in Anne Arundel County since 1958, and she recognizes nothing.

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Conversation with Meshelle about her book "101 Things Every Girl/young Woman of Color Should Know"

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Marc Steiner Show - By Marc Steiner - May. 17 (Interview) - Join Marc and Meshelle for their always-lively monthly hour together, as they discuss Meshelle's book, 101 Things Every Girl/Young Woman of Color Should Know, family, and current events. Meshelle is local author, comedian, and mental health advocate.

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Freedom Ride revisited: Looking forward, but seeing the past in a mirror

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - May. 15 (Opinion) - As the bus full of college students rolls across the South, celebrating the young people who famously defied segregation ordinances 50 years ago, and promoting "Freedom Riders," a new PBS documentary, that preferred answer is being heard yet again.

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Radio One loss widens from higher costs, charges

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Tucker Echols - May. 12 (News) - Radio One Inc. reported a much wider loss in its latest quarter despite increased revenue, as an accounting charge and higher operating expenses weighed on the bottom line.

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Cop Killer Rally

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WBFF - By Melinda Roeder - May. 09 (News) - A Baltimore man who was convicted of killing a police officer has city leaders rallying for his freedom.

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Baltimore reacts to news of Osama bin Laden’s death

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By AFRO Staff - May. 05 (Interview) - The news came just a little before midnight on March 1: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was dead. After a decade of eluding capture by America’s and its allies’ forces, the al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. special forces attack on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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New council hopes to grow, unify women

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Breyana Jackson - May. 04 (News) - When political leader Mary McLeod Bethune founded the non-profit National Council of Negro Women in 1935, she envisioned an organization that would represent the national and international concerns of black women. Towson University students have followed in her footsteps this semester by establishing their own campus chapter of the NCNW.

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America’s Jews

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Lawrence Grandpre - May. 02 (Opinion) - When I reflect on the relationship between Blacks and Jews, I go back to Freshman year of high school; where to get out of class, I found myself attending something called the BLEWS forum (a title I found stood for the combination of BLacks and jEWS) . To my surprise, I learned Baltimore was home to one of the largest populations of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel (in fact just down the street from my elementary school). And that numerous intuitions in the city, including the high school I attended, had been recipients of large amounts of funding from the Jewish community.

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