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TGR: Vignarajah Joins Team Dixon as Early Voting Opens Thursday, May 2nd at a poll near you!

By Doni Glover, Publisher (BALTIMORE – May 1, 2024) – Two weeks ago, I wrote that Thiru Vignarajah was a most influential piece on Baltimore’s political chessboard. A couple of hours ago, Team Dixon made good on that editorial as it was announced that Vignarajah put his support behind former Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon for Mayor. This comes a day after Baltimore City Sheriff Sam Cogen endorsed Dixon. Dixon is on a roll! Early voting starts tomorrow. This is a most fascinating way to kick off the election. Is it too late? I don’t know. At this point, every little…

Baltimore City Council 9th District Candidate Venroy July to Host Dollar Homes Discussion with Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy

(BALTIMORE – May 1, 2024) – Venroy July, Baltimore City Council 9th District candidate, will host a conversation featuring Baltimore City Housing Commissioner Alice Kennedy focused on a program—recently approved by Baltimore’s Board of Estimates—that will sell city-owned vacant homes for $1. July will moderate a discussion with Kennedy covering the challenges associated with revitalizing vacant properties, the need to protect communities from speculative practices and displacement, and differences between the current program and the city’s “dollar house” program of the 1970s. EVENT DETAILS WHO: Venroy July, Candidate, Baltimore City Council District 9 Alice Kennedy, Housing Commissioner, Baltimore City Department of Housing &…

PHOTOS: The Brilliant Artwork of Joyce Scott at the BMA

SEE PICS Overview Get Tickets Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams is the summative career retrospective of one of the most prolific and boundary-breaking artists of our time. Born in Baltimore in 1948, Scott grapples with profound social, historical, racial, economic, and personal challenges that concern society at large in dazzling beadwork, sculpture, textiles, jewelry, printmaking, and performance. For five decades, she has upended hierarchies of art and craft, insisting that artistic expression is that “extra inch of life” that nourishes the soul even in the most challenging circumstances. Best known for her virtuosic use of beads and…

Who is Doni Glover?

(BALTIMORE – April 30, 2024) – Meet Doni Glover, a 58-year-old father of two, Asaan Payton Glover (28) and N’yinde Amari Glover (23), and proud grandfather to Amari Glover, Satori Jackson, and Avani Glover. He wears many hats, serving as the publisher of BMORENews.com and the host of the Emmy-nominated Doni Glover Show. But beyond these titles, he’s deeply committed to bettering his community. Residing in the heart of West Baltimore, Doni didn’t flee during the turbulence of the Freddie Gray Unrest in 2015. Instead, he dove headfirst into community work, convening over 40 meetings over the past nine years…

Rep. Mfume Announces Winner of MD-07 Congressional Art Competition

(WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 30, 2024) –  Today, Congressman Kweisi Mfume (MD-07) announced the winner of this year’s Congressional Art Competition for Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. After deliberation by five distinguished judges on Congressman Mfume’s Art Competition judging panel, the artwork and student that received the highest score was: “Creativity is essential to human understanding and development, and the themes that are displayed in works of art are almost always relevant and applicable to our own lives,” said Congressman Mfume. “I was personally moved by all the artwork my Congressional Office received this year and am so very impressed by the stories…