Angela Robinson from The Haves and the Have Nots swung by our studios to read a portion of Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise. The triumphant poem…
To celebrate Black History Month, The Urban Daily will be reviving its “Black History Retold” series. The initiative began last year as we featured celebrities…
The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum is a great place to celebrate Black History Month. This year, the museum will celebrate Baltimore “MASTERS” Art of the Ancestors on February 6, 13, 20, and 27th. “This landmark exhibition is a salute to historical Baltimore African-American visual artists. “Ancestors” will feature more than 20 visual artists that actively […]
Baltimore’s treasured Reginald F Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture kicked off their Black History Month Celebration earlier this month with the 8th Annual High School Juried Art Show. Now through March 15th, come see works from Maryland High School students examining “examines self-identity, racial identity, diversity, or family images through portraiture” Other […]
Source: FUSE / Getty Black History Month starts next week, and there are so many things you can do to celebrate right here in Baltimore and the surrounding areas. While the B&O Railroad Museum will be closed for renovations from February 1st through 7th, they will reopen on February 8th with “Celebrate Black History at […]
Kurt Schmoke is best known as the first elected African-American mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. He is the current President of the University of Baltimore (UB), and former Dean of the Howard University School of Law. I’ve had the pleasure of talking to Mr. Schmoke many times on my show about various issues that pertained to […]
Earlier this week I participated in a Black History Celebration. The theme “Salutes Black History Heroes”. On the last day of Black History Month the Magic 95.9 Baltimore FB question: Who’s your Black History Hero? After hearing this honorees story Dr. Helena Hicks is mine. As a Morgan State college student, from which she earned […]
Earl Lloyd, who was the first African-American to play in NBA while playing for the Washington Capitols, has died at the age of 86 in…
Many of you have taken your family to the UniverSoul Circus but did you know the circus was founded by Baltimore native Cedric Walker? Walker always had an entrepreneurial spirit and after trying his hand at a number of business ventures in the entertainment industry, he found his passion in providing quality family entertainment. The […]
ANTONIO MICHAEL FREEMAN Former American football wide receiver in the NFL most notably for the Green Bay Packers. Attended Polytechnic Institute.