Meeting offers residents and business owners an opportunity to discuss development along the West North Avenue corridor (BALTIMORE – September 17, 2026) — The West North Avenue Development Authority (WNADA) has rescheduled its upcoming Resident Coordinating Council meeting from Saturday, September 19, to Saturday, September 26, 2026. The meeting will take place from 10 a.m. to noon inside the community room at Walbrook Mill Apartments, located at 2636 West North Avenue in Baltimore. The Resident Coordinating Council brings together residents, business owners, neighborhood leaders, and community partners to receive updates, ask questions, and share perspectives on development throughout the West…

The city has the institutions, talent and emerging leadership to become a world-class technology and business hub—but only if Baltimore improves efficiency, celebrates enterprise and moves Black businesses from participation to power (BALTIMORE – September 16, 2026)—A decade ago, the operative term was “biotech.” Today, researchers, entrepreneurs and investors are talking about algorithms, artificial intelligence, wearable technology and quantum computing. “Data centers” is the new topic du jour at the water fountain. The language has changed because the economy is changing. Baltimore has an opportunity to become a major technology and business hub. We already have many of the ingredients.…

First-ever print edition expected by September 24 as BMORENews.com launches its premium section with interviews featuring KSAL Empire and Nicole Earle (BALTIMORE – September 16, 2025) — We are proud—and deeply grateful—to announce two historic milestones for BMORENews.com. Our inaugural print edition is officially on the way. Today is September 16. Within eight days—by Thursday, September 24—we expect to hold the first-ever print edition of BMORENews.com in our hands. After 24 years of publishing THE NEWS BEFORE THE NEWS, BMORENews.com is moving from the screen to the streets. This inaugural newspaper will let us put our journalism directly into the…

(COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 14, 2026) – Long before artificial intelligence became a part of our daily conversations, The Jetsons gave us a glimpse into the 21st century. The animated television series premiered in 1962 and introduced Americans to a futuristic world filled with flying cars, video calls, moving sidewalks, push-button meals, and robots that handled household chores. Rosie the Robot was practically a member of the Jetson family. For many of us, The Jetsons planted the first seed of what the future might look like. Technology would make life easier. Machines would do the work while humans enjoyed the…

New three-floor community center on Pennsylvania Avenue will provide retail, wellness and professional spaces for Baltimore entrepreneurs (BALTIMORE – September 14, 2026) — Dominion Community Development Corporation is preparing to open Billie’s Promise, a three-floor community empowerment center designed to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build consistent businesses, and connect residents with practical pathways to health and wealth. Located at 1837 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore’s historic Black Arts District, Billie’s Promise will operate as the DCDC Empowerment Hub and a retail and economic development accelerator. The multi-use, community-rooted center will bring retail, wellness programming, business services, and professional workspaces together under…

(BALTIMORE – September 4, 2026) – The West North Avenue Development Authority (WNADA) has named Raenika Crew its new Economic and Business Development Officer. In this role, Crew will work with entrepreneurs and business owners along the West North Avenue corridor. Her responsibilities will include connecting businesses with technical assistance and access to capital, helping attract and retain businesses, identifying available commercial space, and supporting efforts to return vacant and underutilized commercial properties to productive use. Before joining WNADA, Crew worked as a technology consultant for a global public services firm, contributing to large-scale transformation projects involving clients in the financial,…

Sherida Santiago is a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) student at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, studying management and organization. She is also a faculty member at Coppin State University. Doni Glover, a fellow DBA candidate at Smith, sat down with her to talk about the program, the classroom, the cohort, and what it takes to carry a doctorate to the finish line. Doni Glover: What’s your discipline — what are you studying? I’m working toward my doctorate in business administration, with a focus on management and organization. How’d you come to choose the Smith…

UMD already possesses a world-class quantum ecosystem and a nationally competitive business school. Bringing those strengths together could establish a new gold standard in quantum technology management and commercialization. (COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 2, 2026) – Rod Carroll, my Morehouse brother and University of Maryland classmate, introduced me to the emerging world of quantum computing last school year. I had certainly heard of quantum physics before. Like many people, however, I could not have explained what it meant—or why it mattered. Rod helped me begin to understand it. In plain language, quantum science examines how matter and energy behave…

(COLLEGE PARK, MD — September 1, 2026) — I literally grew up in a family business. Wherever we moved, my peers’ parents worked somewhere. Mine worked at home—or close enough to it. My mother trained me to answer the business phone from the time I was knee-high to a fiddle. “Good evening, how may I help you?” Etiquette. How to act when guests came around. How to treat the families we served. My father took me everywhere with him. Long story short, in retrospect, the three of us were the business. It was a simple structure, but it was functional.…

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