The Baltimore City Office for Equity and Civil Rights began hosting an annual Fair Housing Festival in 2020. The event, which features performances, student artwork displays and in-person and virtual historic galleries, celebrates the 1968 passage of the Fair Housing Act. Lauren Jackson, an ...
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BALTIMORE -- The financially troubled Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA), which organizes several major events, is asking the city to help them get back on track. However, the Mayor's Office, in partnership with the comptroller, is calling for an independent fo...
This progressive official battled anti-Semitism and fought for labor, civil rights and policing reform while in office. As vice president to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Humphrey changed the nation by ushering major legislation through Congress, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The producer ...
In a statement released Monday, Maryland U.S. Attorney Erek Barron said, "My office generally will not confirm the existence of or otherwise comment about investigations. However, the public should know, whether it's gun violence, civil rights abuse, financial fraud, or any other threat t...
It also came after officials in nearly two-thirds of the counties outside New York City refused to enforce the mandate — which carries fines of up to $1,000 per violation — because they don’t have the resources to force companies to comply. “We’ve always said we’re going to leav...
“basically the hole in the middle of a prosperous doughnut, oftentimes surrounded by very well-to-do suburbs.” Yet the communities that remained in Baltimore, even as the city shed one-third of its white population, starting in 1960, remain entitled to effective governance, Williams emphasized...
Baltimore, Maryland, on the Patapsco River close to Chesapeake Bay is the most populous city in the state, with 585,708 people at the 2020 census.
Baltimore had little more than fifty years of existence as a city. Those five decades had provided enough time to build an urban infrastructure, to create functioning institutions, and even to erect the nation's first monuments to the veterans of the War of 1812 and to George Washington. But...
Meanwhile, Nick Mosby, president of the City Council, discovered that an advisory board overseeing Cumming’s office was not active and worked out a deal with Mayor Brandon Scott for City Solicitor James Shea to convene hearings on the scope of the inspector general’s wo...