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What to do this Juneteenth weekend, including AFRAM and a Father’s Day barbecue
Whether you want to celebrate 50 years of AFRAM, watch an Indian opera or celebrate Father’s Day with pulled pork and a Guinness, we’ve got you covered.
Cali Leahy, 40, dances at AFRAM Juneteenth Festival on June 17, 2023 at Druid Hill Park. This is the first official Baltimore Club Music Day.
Mount Vernon farmers market to open June 25 as Eddie’s remains in limbo
The weekly Mount Vernon Farmers Market opens at 100 W. Eager St. on June 25.
Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. Organizers say locally grown fruits and vegetables, herbs, meats and more will be available at the new farmers market.
The Integrity Title founder who inspired Black women to enter the real estate industry
Shina Parker, who founded Integrity Title and blazed a path for Black women in the real estate industry, died May 28 of natural causes. She was 63.
Shina Parker.
Maryland woman stuck in Panama after suffering stroke on vacation
A Carroll County woman’s family is working to bring her back to Maryland from Panama after a medical emergency landed her in the hospital.
Kalin Rytina, of Carroll County, suffered a medical emergency while traveling and was hospitalized in Panama.
Reginald F. Lewis Museum’s leader to retire this year
Terri Lee Freeman, president of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, will retire later this year, the downtown museum announced Wednesday.
Terri Lee Freeman poses for a portrait in front of the Reginald F Lewis Museum on September 27, 2023. The museum plans to erect a memorial and debut an exhibit dedicated to the history of lynching in Maryland.
Case dismissed against great-aunt who hid missing Baltimore child Tristan King
Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said he considered Denise Day’s humanity in the decision.
Denise Day, the great-aunt of 9-year-old Tristan King, had been the only person facing accountability for Tristan’s case.
HeartSmiles founder Joni Holifield, champion for Baltimore youth, dies at 47
Joni Holifield, the founder and executive director of the youth-focused nonprofit HeartSmiles, died this week after a battle with ovarian cancer.
Joni Holifield, Founder & Executive Director of Heart Smiles, is the Ravens' 2025 Inspire Change Changemaker.
Nonprofit raises over $450K for Baltimore students in honor of Sonja Santelises
The money will support at least eight Baltimore high schoolers each year.
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises will leave her post this month after 10 years. A fund named after her will continue to boost education for the city's high schoolers.
Sen. Dalya Attar’s indictment leaves Black Baltimoreans asking who gets grace
Dalya Attar’s extortion case is fueling rising resentment in Baltimore’s 41st District, where the state senator is facing a challenge from Del. Malcolm Ruff in one of Maryland’s most contentious primaries.
David Smallwood outside of his home in Uplands on July 26. Smallwood has been leading the effort to get the city to clean up the overgrown alleys.
The Dish: Many restaurateurs love ChatGPT. Many diners don’t.
AI use has exploded across industries, but its adoption in the food world appears fraught with controversy as customers and others speak out against it.
PJ's Coffee owner Yagnesh Mehta used ChatGPT to design a Mother's Day promotion for his cafe, as well as a flyer advertising it.
‘Enough is enough’: Dali crew members ask court to let them go home
The operator of the container ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge demanded its crew members be allowed to return home after more than two years “marooned” in the United States.
A crew member who was aboard the Dali cargo ship and his attorney Owen Duffy leave the court in Baltimore on Tuesday.
Baltimore City Public Schools settles yearslong dispute with charter schools
Baltimore City Public Schools agreed to pay out an additional $5.2 million to 30 charter schools.
The Baltimore City school board voted Tuesday to end years of fighting over how it funds its charter schools.
Luigi Mangione hearing delayed after DA failed to tell jail he’s needed in court
A hearing in Luigi Mangione’s state murder case in the killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was postponed until Wednesday after prosecutors failed to inform his jailors that he was needed in court.
FILE - Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/Pool Photo via AP, File)
A major Baltimore affordable housing nonprofit is falling apart
NEHI, once a darling of Baltimore’s nonprofit world, is heading toward collapse, threatening the budding network of community land trusts.
Garrick Good, NEHI’s leader, denied allegations of financial impropriety and criticized the city for cutting off grant funding without hearing his side of the story.
As AFRAM hits 50, Baltimore’s celebration of Black culture is a tale of resiliency
While dates and venues changed, with varying degrees of success, Baltimore’s commitment to honoring Black history and culture at AFRAM never wavered.
Stage Level
Description: Afro-American (AFRAM) Exposition, Charles Center and Hopkins Plaza, Baltimore MD

Date: August 6-7, 1977
Baltimore’s waterfront gets its Barnes & Noble back
Barnes & Noble will open its first Baltimore location in six years. The store is expected to open a storefront in Harbor East in late October.
The Oceanaire Seafood Room at 801 Aliceanna Street near Harbor Point in Baltimore.
‘Wonder Woman’ gives $10 million to Johns Hopkins in honor of late husband
The family foundation of Lynda Carter, who portrayed Wonder Woman in the 1970s TV series, gifted Johns Hopkins’ urology center $10 million.
Lynda Carter, with Dr. Mohammad Allaf, director of the Johns Hopkins' Brady Urological Institute, gifted $10 million to advance surgeries and training in the center.
Dali’s chief engineer becomes latest to face criminal charges in Key Bridge disaster
Federal prosecutors have filed additional criminal charges in the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, adding as a defendant the chief engineer of the Dali container ship.
The site of the collapsed Key Bridge and the container ship that toppled it, The Dali, are seen from a debris retrieval vessel, The Reynolds, on April 4, 2024.
Why Maryland law can’t always keep ICE off school grounds
After two parents were detained outside an East Baltimore elementary/middle school, local leaders are searching for ways to prevent it from happening again.
Protesters begin to march around the perimeter of Patterson Park as part of an anti-ICE rally in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, June 12, 2026. The group of community members and parents gathered a day after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a student’s parents on Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School’s temporary campus in East Baltimore.
Program trains teens to be election judges, boost election participation
Four years ago, Baltimore was in need of 700 election workers, a long-standing issue that gave rise to the idea to recruit high school and college-aged students to become election judges.
Instructor Marcus Clifton, in green, leads a training session for new election judges for the Maryland primary.
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