Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund Distribution For metropolitan cities that are entitlement communities under CDBG, including Annapolis, Baltimore, Bowie, Cumberland, Frederick, Gaithersburg, Hagerstown, and Salisbury, the U.S. Treasury will issue two tranches of funds, with 50 percent of allocation available within 60 days and the second tranche available one year after the first tranche is…
Judas and the Black Messiah’ renews calls to remove Hoover’s name from FBI building
Confederate statues and symbols linked to the United States’ history of racism, including the confederacy and the horrific enslavement of Africans, have faced removal in recent years. But now leaders and activists are turning their attention more specifically to the racist actors throughout the nation’s long history of oppression. A poignant and recent example is the…
‘A Loss To The Whole Society’: U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Reaches 500,000
More than 500,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. This week President Biden is asking Americans to mark the 500,000 deaths with a moment of silence at sunset Monday. He’s also ordered flags on all federal buildings lowered to half-staff for five days. The disease has killed at least 100,000 people in the…
HBCUs Are Our Past—And Our Future
Black women delivered the 2020 election for Democrats. We must sustain the colleges that served as their training ground. BY MELANYE PRICE, PHD JAN 25, 2021 THE WASHINGTON POST The route to work is always the same. Leave the highway and turn right on Sandra Bland Parkway. Follow it to its end, past the location…
BGE Urges Customers to Report Scammers’ Calls
BGE has noticed an uptick in coronavirus-related phone scams in recent weeks as fraudsters attempt to exploit the pandemic by tricking struggling … BGE Urges Customers to Report Scammers’ Calls
Bill Seeks to Teach Black History Differently in Md. Schools
Although Finley Slenker, a student in Annapolis Middle School, learned in the classroom how Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape to safe houses … Source: Bill Seeks to Teach Black History Differently in Md. Schools
How a mass suicide by slaves caused the legend of the flying African to take off
In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia. A slave agent concluded that the Africans drowned and died in an apparent mass suicide. But oral traditions would go on to claim that the…
Maryland Must Build Thousands More Homes To Keep Prices Affordable, Report Says
Maryland will have to make big changes to its housing ecosystem to keep homes affordable over the next 10 years, according to a new state-commissioned report released Tuesday. The analysis from the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth and Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit housing lender and advocacy organization, says Maryland must add…