(BALTIMORE – August 31, 2025) – I have a confession to make. BMORENews.com did not produce a Black Business Month event this year. Every August, Black-owned businesses around the country are front and center. Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. And between COVID and the onslaught of the current administration in Washington, D.C., many new Black entrepreneurs have emerged — with sisters leading the way. Black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the United States, driving an extraordinary wave of new business creation over the past decade. While they may not yet own the largest share…

Black History did not start nor end with slavery (BALTIMORE – August 29, 2025) – When most American history books introduce Black people, they start at 1619, when “20 and odd” Africans arrived in Virginia. But that narrative is not just incomplete — it is a deliberate erasure. Black presence in the Americas begins long before Jamestown, and Black contributions run far deeper than slavery alone. From the Nile Valley shipbuilders, to West African emperors who launched Atlantic fleets, to the Moors who ruled Iberia, to Black navigators who guided European voyages, to Freedmen whose land and identity were stolen, and…

(BALTIMORE – REVISED – August 30, 2025) – Nobody ever told me that I wasn’t good enough. Not for school. School has always been my happy place. I’ve loved learning since the first grade, when Ms. Williams taught us our vowels. I even loved rainy days because many of the bad kids would stay home, and the classroom felt calmer. In my household, school was the assignment. My parents ran a funeral home. Mom worked in clothing manufacturing and Pops wore a suit and tie daily. Many mornings I rode to school in the Fleetwood — people joke today that…

“What’s the quickest route from Africa to Israel?” one Baltimorean asked another.“Park Heights!” the other replied. (BALTIMORE – August 26, 2025) – In that one exchange, you capture the 41st District in a nutshell — two communities, two cultures, and two visions for the future. Delegate Malcolm Ruff and his “Ruff Riders” made a strong showing last week as he officially announced his candidacy for state Senate in the 41st Legislative District. The launch had all the political fixings: former Sen. Jill P. Carter, City Council VP Sharon Green Middleton, Delegate Scott Phillips, City Councilwoman Phylicia Porter, Chezia Cager, Dayvon Love…

A BMORENews.com EXCLUSIVE (WOODLAWN – August 25, 2025) – You don’t find this type of legacy just anywhere. Only a special demographic knows about it. You hear tales of it every year, and finally — thanks to Choo Smith — I got the chance to experience it firsthand. Everywhere I turned, there were legends. Here a legend, there a legend … legends all around. Some I knew, many I had never even heard of. And for all the basketball aficionados out there, don’t beat me up — I admit this history isn’t for the casual fan. Sure, I know the…

(BALTIMORE – August 21, 2025) – My, my, my. I can say this with complete certainty: the 41st District state Senate and House of Delegates race is as interesting as it gets. For me, it goes back to my high school principal, Dr. Elzee Gladden of Paul Laurence Dunbar Community High School. He wasn’t just my principal — he was my friend. We even shared a birthday with Dunbar himself. Dr. Gladden gave me advice I’ve carried my whole life: “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” In other words, treat people the way you want to…

Who Are We? (BALTIMORE – August 19, 2025) – “We people, who are darker than blue” … so much has happened to us. We have been indoctrinated with language, culture, holidays, and someone else’s version of “religion.” Our history has been – in many cases – stripped from us. Our ancestors were terrorized, raped, murdered, and enslaved. And while this nation’s original sins have been insufficiently addressed, we are still here. Still we rise. We built Black towns. Some were burned down. Still, East Texas is reported to have had over 500. Oklahoma had 70–80 Black towns. This is history…

(BALTIMORE – August 18, 2025) – When the pandemic hit, BMORENews.com had to adapt. In-person interviews became nearly impossible, so in December 2020 we launched BlackUSA.News. Thanks to Peggy Morris of Sisters4Sisters Network, Inc. for introducing me to StreamYard, and thanks to Michael Haynie and Maryland Hospitality Training for becoming our first major sponsor. That support gave us the lift we needed to keep reporting the news safely. From there, the vision grew. We picked up show hosts from across the country, and Dr. Tyrone Taborn helped us go even further by placing our daily show in the Metaverse on STEMCITYUSA.com.…

(BALTIMORE – August 15, 2025) – If I can convince you that you came here from somewhere else, I can erase any possibility of you finding out your lineage was here all along. That’s exactly what happened to countless Native Black Americans. Through “paper genocide” — changing birth, census, and tribal records — entire families were reclassified. One of the most notorious examples was the Dawes Commission in the late 1800s. They created the Dawes Rolls to register citizens of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. But if you had African ancestry, you were often forced into the “Freedmen”…

(RANDALLSTOWN – August 14, 2025) – When I wrote earlier this year that Baltimore County seemed to be “getting its act together” on race, I meant it. There were signs of progress — more diverse appointments, long-overdue conversations about equity in leadership, contracting, and representation. But in politics, progress can be fragile. And nothing illustrates that better than the storm now brewing over former Inspector General Kelly Madigan, Council Chair Julian E. Jones Jr., and Councilman Izzy Patoka. Barry O’Connell’s reporting already outlined a disturbing pattern in Madigan’s work — selective scrutiny, exclusion of Black professionals, and even the omission…