After a contentious primary election in April, State Senator Catherine Pugh won the election for mayor relatively easily. She will become the third African American women to be elected to Baltimore’s highest executive position. “Everyone knows you don’t get here by yourself,” Pugh said. “I’ve had some great campaign workers so I want to thank all of them.” She easily defeated Republican candidate Alan Walden, and Green Party candidate Joshua Harris with well over 75 percent o

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Most of the voters headed into the Mary E. Rodman Recreation Center, one of the busiest polling sites in Baltimore, were women. Women ages 40 to 90 said the uppermost topic in the minds were to see changes in the educational system, see Hillary Clinton as positive influence for young women, and modeling for future generations their responsibility to vote. Wanda Wallace, a resident of District 8, said, “Politicians should tackle tuition and increase the funding of HBCUs.” Wall

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General election day has begun, with polls in Baltimore City opening at 7 a.m. Residents lined up at local polling places to cast their vote for the next president of the United States. At Gilmor Elementary School in West Baltimore, 60 voters were lined up in the school gym by 9 a.m. Many voters were elderly with children in tow. Community activists were out in force campaigning for various races, such as City Council and the mayoral election. The mood among the voters was la

A Baltimore fire department received a call from startled residents Tuesday afternoon as smoke began to rise from one of the voting centers on the West side of Baltimore City. Fire Station 8 responded to the call in West Baltimore from a neighbor who could see smoke from her window coming from the top of Harlem Park Middle School. The fire station then sent out representatives to discover what the problem was. Lieutenant Saylor from Fire Station 8 says that custodians turned

Over 300 people, a majority of them women and girls, gathered on Tuesday morning at Mount Hope Cemetery around Susan B. Anthony’s headstone in Rochester, New York. One by one, the women stepped up to place their “I Voted” stickers onto the headstone, thanking Ms. Anthony on this historic Election Day. Anthony, an American woman who was committed to the woman’s suffrage movement, had stated “there never will be complete equality until woman themselves help to make laws and el

Baltimore Democratic nominee for mayor Catherine Pugh was seen Tuesday afternoon at a polling site in East Baltimore, the Greater Paradise Christian Center. Pugh, who has come under fire for her inaccessibility since the Democratic primary, spoke to us about her vision for the city. She discussed police violence and the negative effects it has on neighborhoods. “I will make an issue of police brutality, so everyone can know their role in the city,” said Pugh, stressing the im

A symposium at Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication on Tuesday addressed the issue of how the black press covers the presidency. The symposium, “The AfroAmerican Newspaper and America’s Presidents: 125 Years of Speaking Truth to Power,” was held to discuss the legacy of the AfroAmerican Newspaper. The event also touched on how the mainstream press covers black issues. “This is about who controls the conversation,” said journalist Lauren Vict