The Montgomery County School Board of Education approved an increase in police services for the 2022 fiscal year budget on Thursday, as students testified for an increase in mental health programs.
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Maryland Public Television correspondent Charles Robinson hosted a CIAA Reception in Baltimore to raise funds for the Karson Institute on Feb. 25th.
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The University of Maryland hosted its third annual Black History Month (BHM) Read-a-Thon on Feb. 17. For three hours, faculty, staff and students could listen to readings of passages and quotes from Black authors, leaders and innovators, according to the event calendar from the School of Architecture.
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Prince George’s County's Board of Education considered an electronic school bus pilot program and introducing smaller non-school bus vehicles to improve the school bus driver shortage on Feb 10 in an operating budget work session.
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The Black Student Union (BSU) hosted Black Love Week this past week with events celebrating Black love. However, with an entire week dedicated to recognizing Black relationships, the events seemed to struggle in representing all Black love.
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Nusirat Balogun, known affectionately as Nusi, started an at-home bakery six years ago when she was dissatisfied with being a research assistant. After going to pastry school in Canada, she moved back to Maryland to open her bakery in a two-story house with a functioning kitchen.
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The event kicked off with Turner leading the audience in singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is often referred to as the Black national anthem.
The Pre-Kwanzaa celebration was then followed by a jazz performance from the Nyumburu Jazz Club, spoken word from University of Maryland junior criminal justice major Vivian Ebisike, African drum performances and the lighting of the seven candles.
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The Hyattsville City Police Department (HCPD) will begin requiring officers and dispatchers to participate in quarterly mental health check-ins as a part of HCPD’s Mental Health and Wellness program in December.
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Greenbelt City Council members continue to establish more opportunities for food trucks to operate within the city after meeting on Aug.18, while following Prince George’s County food truck regulations.
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The University of Maryland Systems (USM) Board of Regents Committee on Finance announced a recommendation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour to its board. The announcement came during a United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) town hall meeting at the Stamp Student Union building on Thursday. The university’s chapter of USAS has been advocating for a pay raise to $15 an hour for months. This past month, the organization hung up QR codes around campus to get students to sign a petition to raise the minimum wage.
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At Tuesday night's State of the Black Terps Townhall Meeting, there seemed to be one question on everyone's mind.
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Greenbelt council member and former mayor Colin Byrd has been a lifelong resident of the area. He continues to reside not far from the community after graduating from the University of Maryland.
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About 10 students attended the first-ever Black Mental Health Matters town hall, which took place in the Nyumburu Cultural Center on Monday.
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Howard University students reached an agreement with administration after a month-long protest over housing issues and accountability, announced at a press conference on Monday.
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Participants in Saturday’s Good Neighbor Day beautified the grounds of Hollywood Elementary School in College Park, Md. UMD students connected with citizens and representatives of the City of College Park in the annual event that typifies service to one’s community.
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Kendall Turner was crowned Miss Unity at Nyumburu’s 44th annual Miss Unity Scholarship Pageant on Sunday at STAMP Student Union’s Hoff Theater.
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Miss Mabel’s, a family-owned fried chicken restaurant, serves crispy Nashville hot chicken in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Residents in Greenbelt, Maryland voted to start a reparations commission for African Americans and Native Americans on Tuesday after the City of Greenbelt election.
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A new University of Maryland study revealed that anti-Black racism fell only temporarily following the murder of Floyd. The study used Twitter data to investigate race-related sentiments and found that changes in anti-Black sentiment were short-lived following the high-profile killings of Black people in early 2020.
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