A Legacy of Independent Black Journalism,
Economic Empowerment and Political Accountability

Founded by Donald Morton “Doni” Glover

BMORENews.com • The News Before the News

A Message from the Founder

For 24 years, BMORENews.com has reported the news, documented Black history, supported Black businesses, covered political power and created opportunities for people whose stories might otherwise have gone untold.

BMORENews was founded on August 9, 2002, but its roots reach back to my earliest experiences in community journalism, political reporting, public relations and broadcasting. From the beginning, the mission has been to provide news and information that educate, empower and strengthen Black communities.

We have never had the largest staff or the deepest pockets. What we have had is commitment, credibility, relationships and a willingness to go where the story takes us.

That journey has taken BMORENews from Baltimore neighborhoods to Annapolis, the White House and the international stage. We have covered elections, promoted Black businesses, advocated for formerly incarcerated people, supported young people, trained aspiring journalists and honored thousands of entrepreneurs and community leaders.

Journalism cannot stop with identifying problems. Anybody can criticize. The question is: What solution are you bringing to the table, and are you willing to help do the work? BMORENews is solution-oriented. That is how people, businesses and communities grow.

As we celebrate 24 years and prepare for our 25th anniversary, this report documents the mission, work and impact of an independent Black-owned media institution built in Baltimore.

— Doni Glover
Founder and Publisher, BMORENews.com

The BMORENews Six-Point Agenda

The work of BMORENews is guided by six fundamental commitments: Black Business and Economic Development; Black Public Education; Advocacy for Formerly Incarcerated People and Reentry; Affordable Housing and Anti-Displacement; Universal Access to Healthcare; and Politics, Public Policy and Accountability.

1. Black Business and Economic Development

BMORENews.com stands unapologetically for Black business—not merely the broader designation of Minority Business Enterprise. Minority-business programs were created to address historic exclusion and economic disparities. Broad classifications, however, have often diluted their original purpose while Black-owned firms continue to receive a disproportionately small share of public and private procurement opportunities.

Our commitment continues a long tradition of Black economic self-determination. From the freedom colonies of Texas and historic Black towns of Oklahoma to Bronzeville in Chicago, Black Bottom in Detroit, U Street in Washington, D.C., Auburn Avenue in Atlanta and Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, Black people have always conducted commerce, built institutions and created economic ecosystems. That history is the foundation of our commitment to Black Wall Street.

True economic development means cranes in the sky at Coppin State University, Morgan State University and throughout East and West Baltimore. BMORENews has highlighted investment at both HBCUs, the West North Avenue Development Authority’s $71 million commitment, and the newly announced $118 million investment in Frederick Douglass High School—building upon significant earlier investment in that historic institution.

We have also documented the work of David Bramble and MCB Real Estate, including the purchase and planned redevelopment of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor after more than two decades of stagnation, as well as investment in Northwood and along West North Avenue.

We welcome investment, but development must not automatically mean displacement. It should improve life for existing residents, create opportunities for local entrepreneurs, strengthen institutions, expand homeownership and allow longtime residents to participate in the growth occurring around them.

Empowerment also requires personal responsibility. We encourage our people to become creditworthy, establish dependable income, build viable businesses and develop the capacity to participate fully in the economy. Our goal is to help people become economically empowered and capable of achieving everything the Good Lord placed them on this earth to accomplish.

2. Black Public Education

Quality public education is non-negotiable. BMORENews pays particular attention to majority-Black school jurisdictions, including Baltimore City, Prince George’s County and Washington, D.C., as well as Northwest Baltimore County communities such as Randallstown, Owings Mills, Milford Mill and Woodlawn.

Our coverage celebrates students, educators, coaches, mentors, and programs that produce positive results. It also examines leadership, funding, safety, equity, academic performance and the allocation of educational resources. BMORENews has never placed a geographic limit on its support for young people.

We are also mindful of the history of Black children being labeled, diagnosed and placed on medications such as Ritalin. BMORENews supports appropriate professional evaluation, informed parental participation and individualized care while remaining alert to racial disparities, institutional convenience and the risk of medicating children without fully addressing their educational, emotional or environmental needs.

The media must report the challenges confronting Black children, but it must also document their brilliance, accomplishments and potential. Black children deserve the instruction, technology, facilities, mentorship and opportunity necessary to compete anywhere in the world.

3. Advocacy for Formerly Incarcerated People and Reentry

BMORENews has consistently advocated for formerly incarcerated people and their successful return to the community. This commitment was profoundly influenced by the late Brother Ellsworth Bay, founder of the Fraternal Order of Ex-Offenders, commonly known as FOXO. Beginning in 1999, Brother Bay helped Doni Glover understand the barriers confronting people returning home and the community’s responsibility to support successful reentry.

Our work has included live broadcasts from a transitional facility on Greenmount Avenue, once known as ‘The Fish Bowl,’ as well as interviews with formerly incarcerated people, service providers, and advocates. Our relationships with Victor Pate, the National Action Network, and advocates in New York City strengthened connections among Baltimore, New York, and the national reentry movement.

Mass incarceration is connected to public policy, economics, employment, education, housing, addiction, mental health, and the prison-industrial complex. BMORENews supports comprehensive reentry services, employment, education, entrepreneurship, record expungement, voting rights, housing access and the full restoration of citizenship.

People who have served their sentences must receive a genuine opportunity to rebuild their lives. Successful reentry strengthens families, reduces recidivism and makes communities safer.

4. Affordable Housing and Anti-Displacement

Safe, stable and affordable housing is fundamental to individual dignity, family security and generational stability. Baltimore needs renovated homes, responsible development, modern infrastructure and the elimination of dangerous vacant properties. Revitalization, however, cannot become a polite word for displacement.

BMORENews has also drawn attention to lead-paint exposure in Baltimore’s aging housing stock. Lead poisoning can permanently affect a child’s health, development and educational future. Housing policy must therefore address not only price and availability, but also the safety and condition of the homes in which families live.

In Hoe’s Heights, BMORENews highlighted the Black community’s fight to regain access to Roland Avenue through neighboring Roland Park. The dispute carried particular historical weight because Baltimore adopted one of America’s earliest residential segregation ordinances in 1910. Restoring access was an important victory, but the fact that residents had to fight such exclusion in the 21st century was shameful.

Longtime residents must be able to remain in their communities and benefit from rising property values, improved services and new economic activity. A neighborhood cannot be considered revitalized if the people who preserved it can no longer afford to live there or are denied equal access to the surrounding city.

5. Universal Access to Healthcare

Healthcare is a human necessity, not a luxury reserved for people with wealth, employment, or the right insurance plan. Since 2002, BMORENews has supported universal access to quality healthcare—years before national healthcare reform became a defining political debate.

Universal access means primary care, preventive services, mental health care, dental care, reproductive care, prescription medications, addiction treatment, and trustworthy providers within the community. It also means early and consistent prenatal care.

Black mothers and babies continue to experience unacceptable disparities in maternal and infant health. Prenatal care, respectful treatment, early intervention and adequate postpartum support are essential to preventing avoidable illness and death.

Healthcare disparities are connected to poverty, environmental conditions, food access, housing, transportation, medical bias and the availability of quality care. No person should be forced to choose between medical treatment and food, housing or other necessities.

6. Politics, Public Policy and Accountability

Politics is not entertainment. It is the process through which decisions are made about public money, contracts, education, housing, criminal justice, healthcare and economic opportunity.

BMORENews has covered politics from the beginning. In 2002, it covered Maryland’s Republican Revolution and Robert Ehrlich’s successful campaign for governor from a perspective rooted in the Black community. The four Maryland governors elected since BMORENews was founded—Robert Ehrlich, Martin O’Malley, Larry Hogan and Wes Moore—all advertised with BMORENews during their respective political journeys.

Both of the last two successful Baltimore County executive campaigns also advertised with BMORENews. We do not claim sole responsibility for electoral victories, but the record demonstrates the value successful campaigns have placed on our platform, credibility and connection with Black voters. Outside Baltimore City, BMORENews has developed an especially strong record throughout Baltimore County and across Maryland.

Our political work is independent. We are not permanently attached to any party, candidate or administration. Winning an election does not eliminate the obligation to answer to the people. Our responsibility is to ask questions, examine records, follow public money and hold power accountable.

Building Black Wall Street

In 2011, BMORENews launched what became the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards. Over 15 years, the awards expanded to nine American cities and recognized more than 3,000 entrepreneurs, professionals, educators, elected officials, clergy members, nonprofit leaders and community servants.

The awards do more than celebrate achievement. They document Black excellence, strengthen relationships and connect people who understand the importance of supporting one another. Black Wall Street has developed a life of its own. It is an enduring BMORENews institution centered on recognition, relationships, commerce and economic self-determination.

Broadcasting and National Media

For 21 years, BMORENews produced The Doni Glover Show on Radio One. The program began through Empower Baltimore and the Baltimore Empowerment Zone. As the Empowerment Zone sunset, the show continued as a vehicle for keeping its programs, accomplishments and community-development priorities before the public.

The Doni Glover Show became the longest-running customized, independently sponsored program at Radio One in the country. Doni Glover also hosted One Mic on WEAA 88.9 FM for approximately three years and currently contributes to WEAA’s Hip-Hop Chronicles with Mike Nyce.

Wanda Draper, then Director of Public Affairs at WBAL-TV 11, provided Glover with the opportunity to serve as a political analyst for approximately a decade. Frank Johnson helped Glover secure his first national television appearance on a Roland Martin program during an episode guest-hosted by Jeff Johnson.

During the Freddie Gray uprising, Glover appeared on CNN multiple times, including interviews with Carol Costello and a segment that included Sunny Hostin. Don Lemon later interviewed Glover on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore about whether troops should be deployed to the city.

From Baltimore to the White House

Since 2010, BMORENews has covered approximately 70 White House events. Doni Glover personally covered roughly 60 assignments, while other BMORENews reporters represented the publication on approximately a dozen additional occasions.

BMORENews has also consistently covered the Maryland General Assembly and state government in Annapolis from a Black perspective. Only a small cadre of Black political reporters regularly covers Maryland government. No small newsroom can attend everything, so BMORENews concentrates its resources on the decisions and developments most consequential to the communities it serves.

International Reporting

BMORENews has carried its reporting beyond the United States, with work in Jordan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Jamaica and Canada.

In September 2002, Doni Glover traveled to Jordan with Arthur Murphy and eight other Black journalists as international tensions surrounding Iraq intensified. Glover later traveled to Ethiopia and Tanzania. In Tanzania, he accompanied Global Vessels, a Columbia, Maryland-based organization working to build an orphanage for children who had lost both parents to HIV/AIDS. The organization had previously supported similar humanitarian work in Ghana.

Coverage in Jamaica and Canada further expanded BMORENews’ international record. These assignments demonstrated that independent Black journalism must not be confined by geography and that Black journalists deserve opportunities to witness and interpret global events firsthand.

Mentoring the Next Generation

Training and mentoring young media professionals have always been part of the BMORENews mission. During the Freddie Gray uprising, Doni Glover provided real-time mentorship to students from Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication as they covered one of Baltimore’s most consequential events of the modern era.

Over the years, BMORENews has given young people practical opportunities in photography, videography, writing, reporting, interviewing, broadcasting, digital production and community journalism. The objective has always been larger than producing content. It is about preparing the next generation—particularly Black media professionals—to tell their communities’ stories.

Community Service and Engagement

BMORENews has organized, sponsored, promoted, and participated in political forums, candidate interviews, talent shows, community cleanups, business networking events, awards ceremonies, youth programs, educational activities, health initiatives, reentry programs, neighborhood gatherings, and live community broadcasts.

Our journalism is grounded in direct contact with the people we cover. We attend meetings, walk the neighborhoods, visit schools, enter businesses, and listen to the people most affected by public decisions.

Books and Thought Leadership

Doni Glover is the author of four books: Unapologetically Black, I Am Black Wall Street, Journapreneur and Black Blueprint. Together, these works extend the BMORENews mission into entrepreneurship, political understanding, personal development, Black economic history and the practice of building independent media.

Radio and Broadcasting

For 21 years, Doni Glover hosted The Doni Glover Show on Radio One Baltimore. The program began through Empower Baltimore and the Baltimore Empowerment Zone as a vehicle to keep the Empowerment Zone’s programs, accomplishments, and community-development priorities before the public. After the Empowerment Zone sunset, the independently sponsored program continued serving Baltimore’s Black community.

The Doni Glover Show became the longest-running customized—or independently sponsored—program in Radio One’s national network. Its 21-year run represents one of BMORENews’ most significant accomplishments in independent Black broadcasting.

Glover later hosted One Mic on WEAA 88.9 FM for approximately three years. He currently co-hosts the BMORENews Report on Hip-Hop Chronicles with Mike Nyce, airing Thursdays at midnight on WEAA, the voice of Morgan State University. The segment brings BMORENews’ independent perspective on politics, Black business, education, community affairs and culture to the WEAA audience.

Glover also serves as News Director for STEMCITYUSA.com, a digital platform focused on science, technology, engineering, mathematics, workforce development and the future of education and employment. His Emmy-nominated Doni Glover Show is recorded weekly at STEM CITY USA’s studio at the Thurgood Marshall Center. Together, these roles extend the BMORENews mission across commercial radio, public radio, digital journalism, technology and workforce development.

Expanding the Editorial Mission

Legends of Baltimore: Beyond the Game

The Legends clips have proven phenomenal. Developing over the past several years, the series now has a life of its own—much like Black Wall Street. It documents athletes, coaches, mentors, recreation centers, neighborhoods, and institutions that shaped generations of Baltimoreans.

A defining moment occurred at the Cloverdale Memorial Day cookout, where 93-year-old Dr. Warren Hayman was still actively leading the gathering. The One Baltimore cookout reinforced the importance of preserving these stories while the people who made the history are still here to tell it. Boxing, particularly coverage connected to Upton Boxing Center, has become an important part of this expanding community-history coverage.

The Indigenous Series

The Indigenous Series has dramatically expanded the reach of the BMORENews YouTube channel. It examines ancestry, identity, and questions surrounding the history of Black people in the Americas. The series has generated intense discussion because it addresses questions many people believe traditional institutions and mainstream media have not adequately explored.

Digital Engagement

Content involving Chrisean Rock has generated millions of social-media views across BMORENews platforms. Kevin Scott, Benedetto Haberdashery and Upton Boxing Center have also contributed to significant audience growth. Viral personalities can produce extraordinary traffic, but the long-term institutional value lies in original BMORENews franchises with distinct identities and enduring communities.

Awards, Honors and Recognition

The Road to 25

BMORENews enters its 25th year with an established history and an expanding mission. Black Wall Street remains a cornerstone. Political reporting remains essential. Advocacy for formerly incarcerated people continues. Legends has developed a life of its own. The Indigenous Series is generating extraordinary engagement. Broadcasting, digital video, and social media have expanded the reach of the original publication.

On Thursday, December 3, 2026, BMORENews and DMGlobal Marketing & Public Relations will present LOYALTY: The Black Wall Street Reunion at The Gala Center, 6665 Security Boulevard in Woodlawn, Maryland. The event will celebrate independent Black journalism, economic leadership, longstanding relationships, and the thousands of people who have contributed to the BMORENews journey.

The next chapter includes expanding BlackUSA.News; strengthening the Joe Manns Black Wall Street network; developing Legends as a permanent editorial franchise; continuing the Indigenous Series; expanding boxing and community-sports coverage; increasing original video production; training young Black media professionals; building sustainable partnerships; and protecting independent Black journalism from technological and economic threats.

Our Continuing Mission

The BMORENews Six-Point Agenda is rooted in solutions. We do not report problems merely to repeat what the community already knows. We ask what can be done, who is willing to do the work, and how our platforms can help advance the solution.

Criticism alone does not build institutions. Solutions, collaboration and sustained action create growth.

For 24 years, BMORENews.com has used journalism, broadcasting, entrepreneurship, public engagement and relationship-building to inform and empower Black communities. Our methods continue to evolve, but our commitment remains constant.

We stand for Black business and economic development. We stand for Black public education. We stand with formerly incarcerated people as they rebuild their lives. We stand for affordable housing without displacement. We stand for universal access to healthcare. We stand for informed political participation, effective public policy, and accountability.

That is the BMORENews Six-Point Agenda.
That is our record.
And as we approach 25 years, the work continues.

BMORENews.com — The News Before the News.