Family and parenting

    Young Baltimore parents feel immediate effects from guaranteed income
    Baltimore's experiment in universal basic income is two months in, and initial payments have meant newfound stability for at least some participants.
    Ariana Williams is a participant in Baltimore’s guranteed income pilot program, which pays 200 young parents $1,000 per month in no-strings-attached financial support.
    A safe space: Seniors discuss embracing LGBTQ+ loved ones
    About 60 residents of Catonsville’s Charlestown Senior Living community spent yesterday morning listening to a discussion about LGBTQ+ issues.
    UMBC professor Kate Drabinksi teaches a session on nonbinary people to residents at Charlestown Senior Living Community, in Catonsville, MD, Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
    Homecoming at Morgan State University, other HBCUs is a cultural phenomenon
    Homecoming at an HBCU represents an opportunity to see familiar faces and new ones and experience the promise of a safe space where Blackness is celebrated.
    Azikiwe Deveaux, 47, is founder of Events 4 Good People (E4GP), an event coordinator and event productions company.  This year, his event at Rye Street Tavern is expected to attract 1,000 people. In all, this weekend, he will throw five Morgan State homecoming related events. (Paul Newson for The Baltimore Banner)
    COVID exacerbated childhood trauma. Here’s what to look for — and how to help
    A Baltimore ACE (adverse childhood experiences) trainer, and a survivor or childhood trauma himself, explains why — and how to help.
    Ulysses Archie, Jr. seen here in his Irvington yard surrounded by his chickens, is a survivor of childhood trauma and a trainer in recognizing such trauma in communities.
    NASA makes deep impact on Baltimore brothers as lab invites them to crash party
    Baltimore brothers follow their out-of-this-world dreams from a cardboard spaceship to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
    From left: Sade Newson, 32, Noah Newson, 6, Leland Melvin, 58, Aden Newson, 3, pose for a quick photo after opening remarks at the DART Impact Event held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, in Laurel, MD. Noah, an aspiring scientist, is shy meeting Leland Melvin the engineer, and retired NASA astronaut.
    Opinion: Inadequate housing for foster children is only part of the problem
    We should be horrified not simply by where children are being housed, but also because they are being unnecessarily removed from their families in the first place.
    The Baltimore City department of Social Services building.
    As books are banned around the country, I will make sure my son learns Black history
    To paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. I refuse.
    Photo of a child with the Alex Haley statue in Annapolis.
    Big ships and mermaids: Fleet Week in pictures
    Baltimore’s Fleet Week is a part of a U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard tradition that brings recently-deployed active military ships to several major cities for one week.
    Baltimore’s Fleet Week is a part of a United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard tradition in where active military ships recently deployed in overseas operations dock in several major cities for one week.
    Rosie the Bunny’s journey home: Strangers team up to bring lost lovey back to Baltimore County girl
    A 5-year-old's heartbreak at losing her stuffed bunny on a family trip prompts strangers to spring into action.
    Grace Moon, 5, with her beloved stuffed bunny, Rosie.
    One woman’s quest for justice after almost $3,000 of benefits were stolen
    “Because it’s only food stamps,” theft victim feels pushed to the side in DHS and police caseloads amid nationwide benefits fraud scheme.
    SNAP Photo Collage
    For the parents who don’t have help: An ode to the village we all deserve
    As this week showed me, even scheduling something as simple and vital as a colonoscopy is impossible without help when you're a parent.
    Illustration of women holding hands.
    Baltimore City school police officers earned $1.8M in overtime, additional pay while providing security for other agencies in pandemic year
    Nearly two dozen officers each earned more than $100,000 in hourly pay and overtime combined from October 2020-October 2021 by staffing Orioles and Ravens games and working at city pools and after-school events.
    The exterior of M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens, in South Baltimore.
    Vacant field or makeshift launchpad? Dad gets creative for kids’ spaceship adventure
    After 2 1/2 hours of cutting down greenery, Paul Newson's kids were ready for liftoff.
    Acting as an air marshal, Noah, 6, signals his brother Aden to prepare for liftoff.
    It’s back to school for Baltimore-area students. Will this new school year finally feel normal?
    Students from Baltimore City and Baltimore County are hoping for a return to normalcy when classes resume on Monday, but schools are still struggling with teacher shortages and COVID concerns.
    An adult walks a child to the front of a school building.
    Only about 1 in 3 Maryland students pass state’s science test in fifth and eighth grades
    Only a third of Maryland's fifth and eighth graders scored proficient on the state's new science test, which are the first test results since 2019.
    Testing Sign at school
    7 tips and hacks for living in Baltimore
    Whether you’re new to Baltimore or a longtime resident, here are some great hacks for making living in Charm City easier.
    Coupon clipping as a cool new activity? Explaining inflation and saving to kids
    You don’t have to be old enough for a bank account to start to understand money.
    Boy clips a coupon, surrounded by dollar bills and coupons
    Way to go, Mom! Why it’s better to encourage those parenting through a public meltdown
    Parenting is an emotionally unpredictable enterprise. Doing it in public ratchets up the unpredictability — don’t make it worse by staring or scolding.
    An illustration of a mother with a child having a meltdown surrounded by caring and judgmental eyes.
    In Southeast Baltimore, Latino families face barriers in child care
    In Baltimore, these pockets of lack of access to providers concentrate in the Southeast and South region of the city.
    An illustration of a Latino mother and her small child in their home. There are pencils stuck in a cactus and a picture hanging askew on the wall.
    A new COVID subvariant is spreading among a weary, divided public
    As the virus continues to mutate, public health experts said infections may become more common and more severe among those who have been boosted and recently infected.
    A mask is seen on the ground at John F.  Kennedy Airport.
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