Baltimore Press
Baltimore Press was an important Black-owned daily newspaper. This daily newspaper flourished under the leadership of R. B. JONES.
A progressive daily newspaper for Baltimore’s African-American community, it was also a key media outlet for the Quakers and the Green Party.
Sadly, the newspaper stopped publishing many years ago, but we hope to create a memorial here.
THE CHANGING FACE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM
Glenn Ross stands at the precipice of a hill just behind the Kennedy Krieger offices on Biddle Street and looks out at the fourteen-acre landfill below. It is an enormous pile of concrete and building waste that dips then rises like a mountain before us, stretching on the length of several football fields. Ross points …
State drops theft case
State prosecutors abruptly dropped theft, embezzlement and perjury charges against a former campaign worker for City Councilwoman Paula Johnson Branch yesterday because, they said, Branch’s testimony conflicted with earlier statements she made to a grand jury. Branch was the key witness in the case in city Circuit Court. The defendant, Momoh Abu Conteh, 49, was …
Branch testifies in ex-staffer’s theft trial
Baltimore City Councilwoman Paula Johnson Branch testified in Circuit Court yesterday that she never ordered her former campaign treasurer – a man who state prosecutors say committed theft and perjury in his political role – to give $2,000 cash to the re-election campaign of state Sen. Nathaniel J. McFadden in 2002 to cover illegal payments …
Martin O’Malley Slammed for Racial Profiling on Arrest Policies, by Green Party Candidate for Governor, Eddie Boyd
At a meeting of the Baltimore City Green Party last Thursday, Feb. 23rd, at the Alternative Press Center in Baltimore, Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Eddie Boyd slammed O’Malley’s arrest policies as racial profiling. Boyd responded to a question concerning O’Malley’s recent comments that, if elected Governor, he would not apply a police policy of arresting …
Court asked to prevent swearing-in
A Baltimore City Council candidate who lost his bid for an East Baltimore seat this year asked the city Circuit Court yesterday to prevent the winner in that race, Paula Johnson Branch, from being sworn in to office on Thursday, when the new council is inaugurated. Glenn L. Ross’ request for a temporary restraining …
Lawsuit on funding of City Council legal bills gets 1st court hearing
A lawsuit challenging the use of city funds to pay the legal bills of City Council members received its first hearing yesterday before a city Circuit Court judge. Judge Lynn K. Stewart heard arguments for and against using taxpayer money for private attorneys who are representing council members in a federal investigation. Stewart is expected …
City Council candidate sues board over incumbent’s race
Branch was not eligible, Green Party’s Ross says The Green Party candidate who lost to City Councilwoman Paula Johnson Branch in Tuesday’s election sued the state Board of Elections on Friday for allowing Branch to run despite missing campaign finance reports. Glenn L. Ross contends that Branch was ineligible to run because of the missing …
Baltimore City Council Endorsements
In the 14 months since Baltimore’s primary election, the City Council has found itself the subject of a federal investigation, its perks, hiring practices and expense accounts under scrutiny. Its lax committee voting system has been forced into the public eye, and the city ethics code has been overhauled and strengthened. The council voted into …
Kenyan Environmentalist Wins Peace Prize
IHURURU, Kenya — When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya’s forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from drought — the same work she’s been doing for decades. Maathai was in the countryside — just one hill away from her childhood …