James “JB” Brown, author, three-time Emmy award winning television host, and sports commentator gave the keynote speech this week at the Metro Maryland Youth for Christ (MMYFC) fundraiser held at Martin’s West. Brown gave not only words of encouragement, but even shared some of his deepest challenges, such as the loss of his mother, and […]
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AFRO Staff Writer
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Hours, Manpower Cutbacks to Save 13,000 Rural Post Offices
Instead of being shut down, operations at 13,000 rural post offices will be trimmed, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said May 8. The move will spare operations and workers at 139 Maryland post offices from the axe in the latest U.S.Postal Service (USPS) initiative to address a $14 billion deficit, Donahoe said in a news […]
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Muhammad Ali’s Boyhood Home to Be Enshrined
The Kentucky Historical Marker Program has announced plans to recognize the boyhood home of boxing great Muhammad Ali. The house at 3302 Grand Avenue was a part of the then-segregated West End in Louisville, Ky. which was home to many Black middle-class families. “This is a day I never thought I’d see,” said Muhammad Ali’s […]
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Military Veterans Convene on Capitol Hill, Speak Out on Sexual Assault and Harassment
Veteran servicemen and women from 27 different states around the nation joined in solidarity this week at the Truth and Justice 2012 Summit on Military Sexual Violence to speak out against sexual assault and harassment in the armed forces. Tears flowed freely during the daylong event, which culminated with a march to Capitol Hill where […]
Posted inBaltimore News
S. Dallas Dance Named Next Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools
“No field impacts a young person’s life like education does,” says newly named Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, S. Dallas Dance, Ph.D., on why learning is so important to him. Currently chief officer of over 200,000 students in Houston Public Middle Schools, Dance will officially take over as superintendent July 1, an amazing feat […]
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Historic Black Legacy Revived
Known as the “City of the Dead for Colored People,” Mt. Auburn Cemetery was once the only place an African American in Baltimore City could be buried with dignity. For well over a decade the cemetery sat in Cherry Hill just off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in the most extreme state of disarray. Now, ten years […]
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A Glimpse of the al Qaeda Strategy from Osama bin Laden’s Personal Letters
No longer able to control the very movement he started, Osama bin Laden died questioning how to regain power of an increasingly violent al Qaeda. For years, the leader of the dangerous jihadi movement gave orders while first, on the run and later, from his secret Pakistani compound where he disappeared from the public eye […]
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USDA Places New Regulations on Handling of Meat Contamination
The USDA on the week of April 30 modified regulations on how to limit and stop consumer intake of contaminated ground beef and other meat products. In changing its protocol, the USDA has now set in place new initiatives to stop meat contamination at its point of origin. When a sample is taken and tests […]
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Target to Discontinue Sales of Kindle
Fans of Amazon.com’s Kindle eReader will no longer be able to find their beloved device in Target stores. In a daring move, the Minneapolis-based chain store stood by their January threat and took action against online competitors blatantly stealing consumers. “What we aren’t willing to do is let online-only retailers use our brick-and-mortar stores as […]
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Mayor Contends for Next CSX Facility
The search for new and better paying jobs for Baltimoreans could lead straight to the same place where 17,000 area residents are already directly employed: The Port of Baltimore. In a study completed by the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C. based nonprofit public policy organization, Baltimore’s next economic growth spurt could come, with some key […]
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Highest Court in Maryland Bans Collection of DNA at Certain Crime Scenes
Police departments across Maryland were ordered to stop collecting DNA from suspects of certain crimes last week, the result of a ruling in the state’s highest court, the Maryland Court of Appeals. The ban applies to cases involving attempted or committed violent crimes and burglaries, which voids part of the amendments made in 2008 to […]
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Original Charges Stand Against Soldier in WikiLeaks Scandal
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier allegedly responsible for leaking sensitive information to the WikiLeaks website, will have to face all 22 charges brought against him in a military court of law, an Army judge ruled April 26. Col. Denise Lind, who is presiding over the case, decided to maintain the original charges, which include the […]
