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The End of DBE and What It Means for Black Business

America Just Took the Ball and Went Home  (BALTIMORE – October 14, 2025) – As I read numerous articles on the recent Trump Administration ruling to remove Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) opportunities from the books, my thoughts go far beyond the obvious women-owned and minority-owned businesses that are most affected. My thoughts are on the Black women who nursed white babies with their own breast milk. I think of Chevy pickup trucks with Confederate flags in the rear window. I’m thinking about the kid who brought his basketball to the court, but he took his ball and went home when…

Black Wall Street: NEW BALTIMORE to Honor Entrepreneurs and Trailblazers at Coppin State University

(BALTIMORE – October 12, 2025) – BMORENews.com proudly presents Black Wall Street: NEW BALTIMORE, a celebration of Black entrepreneurship, excellence, and empowerment. The event will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2025, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Coppin State University’s College of Business. RSVP to blackwallstreetnewbaltimore.eventbrite.com. This special evening will honor Black entrepreneurs, professionals, and the people who support them—regardless of race—for their contributions to community and economic development. Since 2011, BMORENews has recognized over 3,000 honorees across nine major U.S. cities, from Baltimore to Atlanta to New York, continuing the legacy of the original Black Wall Street by…

Attorney Ben Crump Retained by Erika McGriff Following Release of Disturbing Video Showing Violent Arrest by Jacksonville Officer

(JACKSONVILLE, FL – October 12, 2025) – Nationally renowned civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels have been retained to represent Erika McGriff, the unarmed Jacksonville mother violently arrested in front of her daughter by a police officer outside of her daughter’s school, IDEA Charter School on October 7. In recently released video footage, the officer can be seen punching McGriff, throwing her to the ground, pinning her by her neck with his knee, and yanking her hair as she cries out in pain. In the video audio, McGriff says “help” or “I can’t breathe” more than twenty times. Attorney…

NBC4: Prince George’s County Faces Virginia’s billion-dollar data center boom

Northern Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world — bigger than the next five U.S. markets combined. In Loudoun County, these massive gray buildings have fueled a billion-dollar local tax windfall, lowering property tax rates year after year. But the boom comes with a cost. Data centers are moving closer to backyards — casting shadows on homes, humming through holidays, and draining nearly a third of Virginia’s electricity supply. Communities are divided: some see opportunity, others see an industrial invasion. Now, Maryland counties are watching closely. From Prince George’s County’s task force hearings to…

Westside Business Owners Meeting, Oct. 29th at The Mill on North

For business owners, particularly those with ties to Sandtown-Winchester – Harlem Park (BALTIMORE – October 5, 2025) – The Sandtown-Winchester/Harlem Park Collective invites all business owners and entrepreneurs connected to the 21217 area to attend an important community meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at The Mill on North (2636 W. North Avenue), just west of Coppin State University. 👉 RSVP: https://westsidebusiness.eventbrite.com Purpose Our mission is simple but powerful: to identify shared priorities and unite our efforts toward building a stronger, more sustainable future for West Baltimore. Small businesses are the economic backbone of our…

INDIGENOUS: Cognitive Dissonance, Family Memory, and the Stories We Inherit

Are We Moors, Hebrews, or Indigenous? (BALTIMORE – October 12, 2025) – Call it cognitive dissonance—the tension we feel when new information collides with what we’ve always believed. Many of us grew up with two big narratives: that humanity’s oldest roots trace to southern Africa, and that people we call “Black” in the Americas arrived solely via the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. But what if the fuller story is more complicated? What if some of our families have been here far longer than our textbooks suggest—and what if many we call “descendants of slaves” are, in fact, descendants of prisoners of…