Black Wall Street SOUTHERN MARYLAND Presented by BMORENews & the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards Program
📅 Monday, February 24, 2025 🕔 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST 📍 University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland
Sponsored by: R.E. Harrington | Alexis Solis | Southern Maryland Chamber of Commerce
🎟️ RSVP: blackwallstreetsouthernmd.eventbrite.com
(ST. MARY’S COUNTY, MD – February 23, 2026) — Some people build organizations. Some people build movements. Doris Jean Cammack Spencer built both — and then spent a lifetime making sure others could walk through the doors she opened.
The inaugural Black Wall Street SOUTHERN MARYLAND Awards are dedicated to her memory.
Spencer, who passed away on December 30, 2024, at the age of 84, was the founder, former President, and Chairwoman Emeritus of the Southern Maryland Minority Chamber of Commerce — the very organization whose partnership made this event possible. She was also the former President of the Alexandria Chapter of the NAACP, a retired senior executive in the federal government, and one of the most consequential advocates for minority-owned small businesses Southern Maryland has ever produced.
She didn’t just believe in equity. She demanded it.
“We are particularly pleased to host this event in honor of Doris Cammack Spencer,” said Doni Glover, founder of BMORENews.com and the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards. “She was of the ilk of a Harriet Tubman. Fearless, determined, and a strategic fighter for her people.”
Spencer spent decades at the intersection of civil rights, economic empowerment, and community development — persistent in her demands for parity, unwavering in her support for small business owners, and resolute in her belief that Southern Maryland’s Black community deserved a seat at every table that mattered. She was a resident of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, a mother, a grandmother, and a woman whose fingerprints remain on the infrastructure of Southern Maryland’s civic and economic life.
She passed before she could see this evening take shape. But make no mistake — this evening exists because of her.
Every entrepreneur being honored tonight walked a path she helped clear. Every door being celebrated tonight is one she fought to open. The Black Wall Street SOUTHERN MARYLAND Awards are not just in her name. They are the continuation of her life’s work.
God rest her soul. Her legacy endures.
The Black Wall Street SOUTHERN MARYLAND Awards are presented by BMORENews.com and the Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards program, in partnership with the Southern Maryland Minority Chamber of Commerce.
