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Outlook Dark for Colored Voters
From Political Standpoint the Colored Brother is “Dressed Up With No Place To Go Disenfranchised All Around Offices Taken Away By Democrats and Republicans Take Away Votes in National Convention Jan. 1, 1916 The close of this year brings strongly to the fore the presidential campaign that will begin in full blast right after 1916 […]
Brown Snags Maryland’s 4th Congressional Seat
When former Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown was growing up, his father pushed him to work hard, do well and to get up any time he fell down or wasn’t successful. And on Nov. 8, that conditioning proved useful as Brown (D) was elected to be Maryland’s 4th Congressional District representative, taking over the seat […]
For Sisters Only Tackles Stereotypes Against Black Women
Rotimi was one of the featured artists at the For Sisters Only expo on Nov. 5. (Photo by Rob Roberts) The For Sisters Only expo, otherwise known as FSO, recently offered a consortium of seminars, healthcare screenings, panel discussions, inspirational forums, and live performances to encourage Black women to improve, engage, and progress in society. […]
For Black America, Today is Different
It is quiet in my house. Normally, the phone is ringing incessantly by now. Calls from friends and relatives and students and work and the daily chores that must be dealt with. Usually, by noon I wish the phone would go away. Ronald Harris (Courtesy Photo/LinkedIn) But not today. Nobody is calling me and I […]
Love Wins Re-Election
U.S. Rep. Mia Love won re-election in Utah on Nov. 8 after defeating Democrat Doug Owens for the second time, while U.S. Sen. Mike Lee defeated political newcomer Misty Snow. The other members of the state’s congressional delegation up for reelection — Republican Reps. Jason Chaffetz, Chris Stewart and Rob Bishop — also sailed to […]
Overcoming our Opportunity Deficits
Anyone who has lived in Baltimore’s inner, inner city for as long as I have knows that we do not have a deficit of talent among the young people in our community. Rather, they face a very real deficit of opportunity. Elijah Cummings (Courtesy Photo/Facebook) Surrounded by all of the discouraging aspects of generational poverty […]
Mourning in America
I woke up the day after election day to what I firmly believed when I went to bed was the impossible. Somehow, although when I look at the numbers I know how (the bulk of our country is rural and it’s exceedingly White and Republican), my neighbors and friends (?) elected the person most unsuitable […]
Catherine Pugh Wins Baltimore Mayoral in Landslide
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Mayor-Elect Catherine Pugh wasted no time in setting out a clear agenda for Baltimoreans in her victory speech Election night. Addressing a waiting crowd of about 200 supporters and elected officials, Pugh quickly moved through thank you’s to supporters and friends and decisively laid out a set of expectations […]
Trump Victory: The Plight of African Americans has Suddenly and Drastically Changed
The newspaper headlines were likely already written, announcing Hillary Clinton as the first woman to take the helm of the White House. Instead, in the stunning culmination to a brutal and vitriolic campaign, real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump clinched the race Nov. 8 to become the 45th president of the United […]
Urban Maryland Voters Hand State to Clinton
BALTIMORE – As Hillary Clinton on Tuesday struggled to keep a path to the Oval Office through other states, voters in Maryland’s urban areas handed the state’s 10 electoral votes to a Democratic candidate for the seventh straight presidential election. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton applauds after speaking at a rally at the Cleveland Public […]
Democrats Keep Firm Hold on Maryland Congressional Seats
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – Democrats took the state’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, as well as seven of eight House seats. Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen, of the 8th District, won 60 percent of the vote in his bid for the Senate, beating Republican Kathy Szeliga and Green Party candidate Margaret Flowers. Sen.-elect Chris […]