BY KEITH LORIA MAY 10, 2021 10:58 AM THE ST. JOSEPH APARTMENTS. RENDERING: BY PRC Varsity Investment Group has closed on a $45.1 million construction loan from United Bank for the St. Joseph Apartments, a four-story, 268-unit multifamily development in Glenarden, Md., Commercial Observer has now learned. Phillips Realty Capital (PRC) structured the capital stack financing, which also included a…
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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…
White terrorism often leads to harsher punishment for people of color – MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Ever since the violent siege on the Capitol on Jan. 6, national security experts and others appalled by what happened have called for new laws and policies to punish those involved. An association of more than 14,000 current and former FBI agents, for instance, is urging Congress to make domestic terrorism a separate federal crime so it can be…
Biden signs orders giving economic relief to working families hit hard by COVID-19
President Joe Biden launched another front in his battle against COVID-19 on Friday by taking steps to increase food assistance for families still reeling from the effects of the deadly pandemic and laying the groundwork for a $15 minimum wage for federal workers. Biden signed executive orders giving low-income families easier access to federal nutrition and…
Voices Of Wards 7 And 8: Neighbors Explain What The Protests Against Systemic Racism Mean To Them
Demonstrators took to the D.C. streets in late May, protesting police brutality and the systemic racism Black people face. It was part of a larger movement inspired by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, but Floyd wasn’t the only name protesters chanted. They called for justice for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and, more locally, Marqueese Alston, D’Quan Young, and others. In…
COUNTY EXECUTIVE ALSOBROOKS ANNOUNCES FULL PHASE TWO REOPENING FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY ON JUNE 29
PRESS RELEASE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ALSOBROOKS ANNOUNCES FULL PHASE TWO REOPENING FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY ON JUNE 29 LARGO, MD – Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced today that the County will move from a modified phase two to a full phase two reopening on June 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM. This decision was made under the…