(BALTIMORE – October 14, 2026) – Family, I need to talk to you for a moment. This is really important.
Every day, news happens, and somebody reports it. In Baltimore, people typically think of the mainstream television stations and the daily media outlets.
At BMORENews.com, we come from a different perspective. We deliver the news through an Indigenous lens—one rooted in this community, with a vested interest, first and foremost, in its well-being and development.
Why? Because we live here. We work here. We have families here. And we have businesses here.
What happens to Baltimore happens to us, too.
We understand the Black Wall Street concept as well as any melanated community in America.
If you don’t know, you’d better ask somebody!
From Tom Smith to Reginald F. Lewis, our entrepreneurs have reached world-class levels and helped set the country’s gold standard. Our educators have helped produce some of America’s finest minds.
Doctors, lawyers, judges, college presidents, and an ocean of Ph.Ds have come straight out of Baltimore. This is the city that produced Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Our children deserve to know that. They deserve to understand the greatness that came before them and the possibilities that exist within them.
As the Black Press approaches its 200th anniversary in March 2027, I am particularly mindful of our historical responsibility.
From documenting lynchings in Jim Crow America to reporting on Ku Klux Klan rallies and serving as war correspondents, Black journalists have told stories our community needed to hear—often at considerable personal risk.
That responsibility continues.
We tell the stories some would rather we forget. We write about Hoes Heights and its struggle to preserve its place alongside Roland Park. We cover mass incarceration and its devastating impact on Baltimore families. We report on the overdoses at Penn-North because the people affected are human beings, with families, histories, and lives that matter.
We also cover the business owner opening a door, the educator reaching a child, and the neighbor doing the work without a camera crew in sight.
Politically, we ask questions and pursue the truth—even when the answers hurt, even when they make people uncomfortable, and even when we know the people involved.
That is part of an independent Black news outlet’s responsibility.
But, family, this work requires support.
The reporting, photographs, interviews, editing, travel, and technology all take time, people, and money. When you support BMORENews.com, you help us keep showing up.
So today, I am asking you to show up for us.
Please join us on December 3 for LOYALTY—The Black Wall Street Reunion, celebrating 24 years of BMORENews.com and the community that has sustained us.
Early Bird tickets are $40 through October 31.
If our coverage has informed you, helped promote your business, shared your story, recognized your work, or covered an issue that mattered to your family, please consider buying a ticket.
Bring somebody with you. Share the invitation. Help us fill the room.
For more than 24 years, we have made it our business to tell our community’s stories. Your support helps us continue.
Get your tickets: loyalty2026.eventbrite.com
Thank you, family. We appreciate you.
