Harlem recognition celebrates more than 30 years of media, advocacy and community leadership
(HARLEM, N.Y. — July 26, 2026) — New York State Senator Cordell Cleare, representing the 30th Senate District, presented Baltimore journalist, entrepreneur and BMORENews.com publisher Doni M. Glover with a New York State Senate proclamation on Saturday, July 25, 2026.
The surprise presentation took place during a Joe Manns Black Wall Street Awards ceremony hosted in Harlem by respected community leader Vito Jones and Harlem, Inc.
Glover traveled to New York intending to recognize a distinguished group of entrepreneurs, professionals, and community servants. Midway through the ceremony, however, Jones and Senator Cleare took the microphone and turned the celebration toward Glover.
“I went to Harlem to honor others.
Today’s job seekers are routinely instructed to submit applications online. A lack of human interaction can discourage individuals who have been submitting resumes for a long time if they still have not secured a position. However, candidates who develop a revised strategy for finding a position can achieve better results. Breona Larmore established B. Larmore Professional Services three years ago to support clients navigating the job market. The career services consultant from Anne Arundel County shared insight about resumes and cover letters—two foundational tools that today’s job seekers must polish to tell their work story.
A Good Resume
When she first started her business, Larmore was convinced that every resume had to be two pages or less, but the career services consultant changed her opinion.
“The more experience I gained, the more I realized there isn't a one-size-fits-all rule. For someone early in their career, one page is often enough if it adequately highlights their qualifications. Two pages are perfectly appropriate for experienced professionals, as long as the content is relevant and adds value. Then there are federal resumes, which sometimes feel like they want to know what you did on your 4,377th day of work. Those, along with academic resumes and curriculum vitae, can easily extend beyond two pages because they're designed to capture much more detailed information,” Larmore said.
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Baltimore, MD - July 27, 2026 - To salute National Farmers Market Week (August 2 - 8), Create Baltimore, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Culture, and Entertainment (MOACE), intends to honor it with greater intention than ever before. On SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2026, the Baltimore Farmers’ Market will commemorate National Farmers Market Week with live performances from David Lindberg and DJ Daveology, farm-to-table cooking demos, restaurant pop-ups, and more.
National Farmers Market Week is an annual celebration that highlights the vital role farmers markets play in our nation's food system. Through special events, activities, and community engagement, the week raises awareness of the value farmers markets bring to neighborhoods while strengthening relationships with residents, elected officials, community organizations, and funding partners. It is also an opportunity to advocate for food access, support local agriculture and small businesses, encourage research and data collection, and elevate the importance of farmers' markets as essential community assets. Farmers markets preserve farmland, stimulate local economies, increase access to nutritious food, support healthy communities, and promote sustainability.
What Steel Mills Teach Us About Data Centers and Environmental Justice
"It is a blue-collar city. Factories created a lot of the employment opportunities here, especially during the Great Migration. African Americans migrated here from South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, to come to Baltimore to work in factories. Bethlehem Steel, at one period of time, was the largest employer in Baltimore City."— Imam Earl El-Amin, Baltimore Legacy Project Interview
Imam Earl El-Amin's recollection captures more than an economic history. It recalls an era when Baltimore's identity was forged in steel, shipbuilding, and industrial labor; when the city's skyline rose alongside the fortunes of thousands of working families whose lives revolved around the whistle at Sparrows Point.
Nikki Massie was born three weeks early and still weighed in at nearly nine and a half pounds. “God bless your mama,” I told her, and she laughed the way you laugh at a story you’ve told a hundred times. That early arrival was the first chapter of a lifelong relationship with weight that would eventually carry the Baltimore mother of two from a hospital bed at St. Agnes to the board chair at the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), the nation’s only organization that speaks exclusively on behalf of people living with obesity.
"This month, Massie wrapped up her final convention as OAC board chair — her two-year term officially runs through January — closing it out at the organization’s Your Weight Matters Convention in Orlando, a gathering of hundreds who come together each year for education, advocacy, community and, as she describes it, a rare kind of freedom.
The Surgery That Changed Everything
Massie had tried Weight Watchers, keto, South Beach — “all of the things,” she said. It was watching her two young daughters, then 9 and 6, that pushed her toward a different path. “I wanted to be that mom who played sports with them and ran around the playground,” she said. In January 2008, she underwent gastric bypass surgery at St. Agnes Hospital, but not before insurance hurdles still familiar to many Baltimoreans today: a six-month waiting period, a mandated weight-loss target, and an insurer that treated the surgery as elective. She lost 155 pounds over two years — and then hit a wall no one had prepared her for.
Open-source software is everywhere. It helps power websites, mobile applications, business systems, security products and many of the digital services we use every day. It can encourage innovation, reduce costs, and allow security researchers to identify and correct problems.
We think of a cyberattack as something malicious, such as a suspicious email, a fake login page, or a virus warning. Some of the most effective attacks today use free, publicly available software known as open-source software. A recent investigation by the cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest showed exactly how this works, and what it means for anyone who uses social media on any device.
What Is Open-Source Software?
Open-source software is software whose underlying code is made publicly available for anyone to view, use, modify, and share. Open-source software is often created and maintained by communities of volunteer developers, companies, and independent contributors working together. This openness is a major reason so much of the modern internet runs on it. Web servers, programming languages, security testing tools, and even entire operating systems like Linux are open source. These tools are used because they're typically free, flexible, well-documented, and battle tested. IT professionals use open-source utilities to build websites, automate tasks, and test their own networks for weaknesses.
Love Your Bookshop Day, August 14, 2026, is a perfect time to support local bookshops and establishments. Patrons can buy books or spread the word to fellow book lovers about where to find diverse literature. Some independent bookstores cater to diverse books while others are Black-owned or provide an open door to self-published authors. Additionally, diverse books can be harder to find in traditional bookstores since there are less “African American fiction” or “Black authors” sections that once existed. Independent bookstores and book-connected businesses and nonprofits often serve as valuable community hubs.
Resources to Remember
According to The National Association of Black Bookstores https://www.nab2.org/directory, the 501(c)(3) is a membership-based organization dedicated to promoting literacy, amplifying Black voices and preserving Black culture. It was founded on Juneteenth in 2025. NAB2 reportedly represents brick-and-mortar locations; booksellers with mobile/online outlets; book clubs; book fairs; museum; bookstores; cafés/restaurants; publishers; distributors; individuals (including authors) and more. The website can be used for a resource to locate bookstores in the National Association of Black Bookstore's directory (
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