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Mayor Brandon Scott Touts Success Of 2022 AFRAM Festival
June 21, 2022 -
Mayor Brandon Scott said that this year’s large and successful AFRAM Festival coupled with the other events surrounding Juneteenth shows “the promise” of Baltimore. The crowd of people that showed up to Druid Hill Park to celebrate Juneteenth or spend time with their family for Father’s Day is an indicator of “the bright future that we have ahead,” he told WJZ’s Tim Williams and Sina Gebre-Ab.
Read More: WJZ
‘Every word matters’: Trauma Responsive Frederick promotes empathy, understanding of trauma
June 21, 2022 -

Two and a half years ago, Inga James drew up a five-page plan for making Frederick County a trauma-responsive community. Baltimore had just passed the Elijah Cummings Healing City Act, which set the mayor and city agencies on a path toward improving their ability to work with traumatized residents. Frederick could do the same, James figured.

Read More: Frederick News-Post
In this 2017 photo, captured inside a clinical setting, a health care provider was placing a bandage on the injection site of a child, who had just received a seasonal influenza vaccine. Children younger than 5-years-old, and especially those younger than 2-years-old, are at high risk of developing serious flu-related complications. A flu vaccine offers the best defense against flu, and its potentially serious consequences, and can also reduce the spread of flu to others.
Shots for tots: Maryland’s COVID-19 experts push for parents to protect little kids as vaccines are recommended for the youngest ages
June 21, 2022 -

A year and a half after the rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccines, health officials are planning to start giving shots this week to the last remaining group: babies and young children. There are about 19 million kids ages 6 months to 5 years around the country, including 358,000 in Maryland, and vaccines for them from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech could both be available early this week.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Maryland reports first presumed case of monkeypox virus
June 17, 2022 -

The first suspected Maryland case of human monkeypox, a rare but contagious infection that has emerged in the United States, has been identified by the state health department. A state resident presumed to have the infection showed mild symptoms and did not require hospital care, the Maryland Department of Health said Thursday. The person is in isolation and waiting for test results to confirm an infection. Human monkeypox is a virus that causes symptoms similar to smallpox, although typically less severe.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Keith Davis Jr. lawyers want Mosby held in contempt for gag order violation
June 17, 2022 -

The lawyers for a Baltimore man facing his fifth trial in a 2015 murder are seeking to have city State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby held in contempt for comments she made in a radio interview soon after a judge issued a gag order blocking lawyers from discussing the case. A motion filed Tuesday accused Mosby of violating the order when she mentioned details of the case against Keith Davis Jr. during a radio interview on WYPR. The motion also asks Judge John Nugent to throw out the charges against Davis as a sanction for the violation.

Read More: The Daily Record
University System of Maryland moves toward removing SAT/ACT requirement
June 17, 2022 -

Following nationwide trends, the University System of Maryland is debating removing standardized test scores, such as the SAT and ACT, as an admissions requirement for incoming first-year students. A work group of provosts and institutional admissions representatives, convened by USM to evaluate the testing requirement, has recommended that the system amend its Policy on Undergraduate Admissions to eliminate the SAT and ACT as a systemwide admissions requirement at all system universities.

Read More: The Daily Record
AFRAM Festival To Bring High-Profile & Local Artists To Baltimore This Weekend
June 17, 2022 -
The largest African-American culture celebration on the east coast has garnered nationally and locally known artists. AFRAM 2022 is a two-day festival that coincides with Juneteenth, the commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans in 1865 that officially became a federal holiday last year.
Read More: WJZ
Charles Village neighbors rally after recent house fires, burned pride flags
June 17, 2022 -

There is strong neighborhood reaction Thursday following the fires set on E. 31st Street in north Baltimore. Around the same time, a pride flag was set ablaze across the street. The ATF is involved in the investigation as well as Baltimore City fire and police. In an act of solidarity, neighbors wasted no time replacing the pride flags that burned in the fires. The consensus here is this fire and several other smaller fires nearby are all connected.

Read More: WBAL
Carroll County’s first Juneteenth event aims to celebrate liberty and freedom Saturday in Westminster
June 17, 2022 -

Downtown Westminster will host live entertainment, food vendors, food trucks, panel discussions and activities for children Saturday, to mark Carroll County’s first Juneteenth celebration. The event, aimed at being an annual celebration, will take place noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, at the Carroll County Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., and the surrounding area. Anyone may attend this celebration for free.

Read More: Carroll County Times
Building in Flames
Baltimore’s vacant homes burn at twice the national rate, but gaps in records, systems limit what firefighters know before going inside
June 16, 2022 -

It’s particularly important that firefighters have the full picture before entering vacant buildings in Baltimore, which experiences two times as many fires in vacant homes as other areas across the country, according to a Sun data analysis and a 2018 study from the National Fire Protection Association. More than 12% of Baltimore’s structure fires are in vacant properties.

Read More: www.baltimoresun.com

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