(BALTIMORE – June 3, 2026) – I was coming down Garrison Boulevard the other day and couldn’t help but notice. Signs everywhere. At Garrison and Liberty Heights. Up Rogers Avenue. Through Park Heights. Past the Caribbean restaurants that have become anchors of this community. Toward Pimlico. Along Northern Parkway. Big signs. Small signs. Clusters on corners. Enough to make you think somebody already won something. But I’ve been covering Baltimore politics since 1994, and I know what campaign signs are. They are a tactic. They are a show of strength. They are money planted in the ground. And sometimes they are…

(BALTIMORE – June 3, 2026) – There are moments in politics when the most important question is not who is running. It is why. Why would a career law enforcement professional spend decades serving the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office, rise through the ranks, earn the respect of her peers, and position herself for continued leadership within the agency—only to turn around and challenge the sitting sheriff? That question deserves an answer. Sabrina Tapp-Harper is not a political tourist looking for a title. She is not an outsider parachuting in for a campaign season. She is a veteran insider who has seen the…

(BALTIMORE – May 31, 2026) — Maybe I got this whole thing wrong. I’m talking about public service. I thought it was about getting out there, fighting for healthcare, jobs, voting rights — good, wholesome causes. Clearly, I’ve missed this whole new era where politicians no longer have to earn our vote. Apparently, we live in an age where video editing and deepfakes are the new strategies for replacement. Instead of mapping out real solutions, you just hire someone to splice together funky clips of your opponent looking awkward, let it go viral, and voilà — you’re a leader. LMAO.…

Black People, We Have to Show Up (LOCHEARN – May 30, 2026) – Dear Family, Do you remember where you were on Tuesday, November 4, 2008? I do. That morning, around 7 a.m., I walked around the corner to my polling place and saw something I had never seen before. The line was out the door. For a little perspective, I live in Sandtown. Zip code 21217. A community that has endured concentrated poverty, undereducation, addiction, violence, and mass incarceration. Baltimoreans make up 40% of the state’s prison population, while the city represents only 9% of the state’s population. Yet…

After hearing disrespectful comments at the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center, BMORENews publisher Doni Glover reflects on the remarkable career of Congressman Kweisi Mfume and why history matters. (BALTIMORE – May 28, 2026) – You cannot come on Division Street — let alone into the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center — and not understand the holy ground you stand on. This is not a place for games. This is where our Civil Rights leaders came from. One block over sits Druid Hill Avenue. Union Baptist Church. Bethel A.M.E. Church. Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church. The Goon Squad. Rev. Vernon Dobson. Congressman Kweisi…

(BALTIMORE – May 28, 2026) – I get it. No! I really do get it. You see the position. You see the power. And somewhere in the deepest fathoms of your mind, you tell yourself — I want the crown. You see the elder and you think that you, of all people, have what it takes to hold the throne. You believe you have that pop, that je ne sais quoi. But don’t forget — the crown is not given. It is taken. One of the most telling depictions of this truth is the Clay-Liston fight in Miami. The younger…

(BALTIMORE – May 23, 2026) – I’m glad Chezia Cager has a family legacy she can be proud of. This week, an elder — one whom I love dearly — sort of criticized the concept of family legacy in elections. I get it. And honestly, I agree. I do not believe that simply because one’s relative was a politician, a descendant is automatically qualified for office. Hell no. In this city, and in this election cycle, those things are indeed happening. But when it comes to Chezia — oh dear, big sister — she has earned her stripes. And quite honestly,…

(BALTIMORE – May 22, 2026) – Nat Oaks. Larry Young. Sheila Dixon. Catherine Pugh. Marilyn Mosby. In Baltimore politics, we have seen this movie before. A Black elected official gets indicted, and suddenly the same courthouse footage loops endlessly on television — walking beside a lawyer, head down, cameras flashing, public opinion already forming long before a verdict is ever reached. As a journalist, I know the drill all too well. Particularly in Baltimore, the rise and fall of Black politicians has often been treated not simply as news coverage, but as spectacle. The imagery becomes the story. The accusation…

(BALTIMORE – May 21, 2026) – Let me be direct. Two nights ago, at the Candidates Night hosted by the Edmondson Village, Rognel Heights, and Uplands Community Associations on Walnut Avenue, Delegate Sandy Rosenberg stood before the voters of the 41st Legislative District and essentially told us that a sitting state senator facing a federal indictment was not worth our concern. He didn’t hesitate. He didn’t hedge. He didn’t blink. And that was one of the most disrespectful things I have witnessed at a political forum in decades of covering Baltimore. Delegate Rosenberg, we are not stupid. We understand due process.…

(RANDALLSTOWN – May 20, 2026) – Born in the 1960s — in the era when both Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated — I remember a very different Black America. There was fire in the belly of Black people. Afro picks. Bell bottoms. Curtis Mayfield playing through neighborhood windows. We stayed outside all day long with little more than a seesaw, a swing set, and imagination. There were no bike lanes. Nobody had ever heard the phrase “traffic calming.” And if you were not home by the time the streetlights came on, you already knew you were…