Publisher, The Baltimore Times

06/17/2021

Juneteenth is now a National Holiday - long overdue! I decided to close our office and celebrate - where I come from Montserrat in the Caribbean we celebrate the end of Slavery on the first Monday of August with a poem - First of August come again
Hurrah for Nincom Riley
White man kick him back
Hurrah for Nincom Riley

Never found out exactly who Nincom Riley is but God Bless him!

10/01/2020

How many other discoveries did African Americans make for which they were never acknowledged or received any money? This story tells of a slave who helped to save thousands of lives in Boston during the smallpox pandemic but no one has ever heard his name mentioned in medical journals or in any medical books at all.

Opinion | Like so many black scientists past, the African who brought inoculation to the American colonies never got his due.

09/25/2020

University of Maryland School of Medicine displays new protective PPE gear
medical workers in the world of Covid-19.

This week, a closer look at the protective gear that has been used throughout the including a new kind of PPE that will help keep care providers pr...

08/20/2020

Beyonce has done it again!

08/05/2020

I knew Bebe Moore. She was relentless - talking about mental health and black folks.
We are now unafraid to talk about mental illness in our families as well as personally.
I am so elated that her work is being recognized. so much so that event celebrities are admitting to their own mental health problems. Seek help for your self or your friends or families - no shame in admitting this particular health problem.

By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D., NNPA Newswire Culture and Entertainment Editor The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD) and co-sponsored by a large bi-partisan group to achieve the

06/03/2020

Five Minutes Histories: Truly enjoyable and informative!

As we look out to the non-violent protests in our city and around the world, we are reminded that we have so far to go to achieve equality and human rights f...

06/01/2020

Black Newspaper publishers of Minnesota speak out!

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent "I can't breathe..." The senseless killing of unarmed Black men, Black women, Black boys, and Black

05/20/2020

May is Is Mental Health Month

Our CEO, Dan Gillison, talks to the NAMI community about COVID-19. While we all continue to care for our families, neighbors, and selves during the COVID-19 ...

05/05/2020

Pulitzer Prizes awarded - Ida B Wells gets her due

by Barbara Allen — (Poynter) — In granting a posthumous citation to Ida B. Wells, the Pulitzer Prizes honors one of America’s earliest and most intrepid investigative reporters. Pultizer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones on Twitter:   Ida B. Wells was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. She b...

05/01/2020

Frontline news is a weekly program featuring the faculty, staff, trainees and students of the University of Maryland School of Medicine who are on the frontl...

04/21/2020

Wow Michelle Obama in the White House Again?

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Is a return to the White House by the Obama family in the cards? It can happen if former First Lady Michelle Obama would accept