Emmanuel Ayisi

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Who is Marlo Stanfield? When portrayed on the small by actor Jamie Hector in the critically-acclaimed HBO series "The Wire", created by David Simon, his character was a street-smart, wise, and merciless leader of a small-time organization, demanding for respect and wanting the territory of the Barksdale Organization. But in real life, Stanfield is hardly the person he may very well have been in the past. An upcoming docuseries will tell the life story of Stanfield,

15-year-old Carson Shoffner has big dreams for his basketball career. And it starts with his NIL brand, The Gorilla Guard. Carson joined FOX45 Morning News to talk about his dreams.

Black educators, activists, and policy makers gathered in Baltimore for a 5-day conference back in April. Later in June, the group released the "Baltimore Declaration," an “action agenda” for the future that came out of the conference. Their goal was to find solutions to problems facing Black communities in America and across the globe. Issues like deadly violence, lack of education and high unemployment. FOX45 News Kai Jackson spoke with a few of the speakers on the State of the Black World.