By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor When it comes to mentoring 90 students and young professionals, Alicia Wilson doesn’t have the time- she makes it. The esteemed lawyer and Vice President for Economic Development at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System has only 24 hours in a day, but somehow manages to get […]
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Posted inNational News
Women Who Win: How the women publishers of Word in Black keep the Black press going
By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor Sonceria “Sonny” Messiah -Jiles had a deal to break. While some young women set their sights on money or marriage, Messiah-Jiles had made up her mind: She would buy a newspaper. Not just any newspaper- a Black-owned publication. A peculiar arrangement was drawn up and the matter was settled-mostly. […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Living Legends: Past presidents of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s first Maryland chapter celebrate the centennial anniversary
By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor Lydia Mussenden and Ruth Jones King Pratt have been winning for more than 100 years- and that’s not a combined total. Mussenden, 102, and Pratt, 100, are full of life when they recall the tales of Black life in Old Baltimore. From fancy parties to community organizing; from the […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
No Conviction for Brett Hankison, sole officer to face charges stemming for shooting in Breonna Taylor’s apartment
By Alexis Taylor, AFRO News Editor On March 3, 2022, the sole officer to face charges for shooting through the apartment leased to Breonna Taylor in March 2020, was found not guilty of all charges. The trial was live-streamed on a variety of networks, to include the Law and Crime Trial Network. Viewers could watch […]
Posted inBUSINESS
First and Few: Baltimore’s Longest Living Funeral Directress Passes Away
By Alexis TaylorSpecial to the AFRO Alice Theresa Baysmore Manns didn’t have to know you. You didn’t have to be family. You didn’t even have to have the money to pay- if a Black person passed away in Baltimore, there was a Black person that needed to be buried. And she got to work. One […]
Posted inWord In Black
#WordinBlack: Money Matters: Ways parents can teach financial literacy at home
By Alexis Taylor, Special to the AFRO While the pandemic has significantly disrupted math and reading classes across the country for two years, millions of students have also missed out on college, career and financial literacy classes often provided in school settings. According to the Council for Economic Education’s biennial report Economic and Personal Finance […]
Posted inBaltimore News
The Road to 100: Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Marks Centennial Year with Acts of Service
By Alexis Taylor, Special to the AFRO For the past 24 months the illustrious ladies of the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have been steadily marching towards the 100th anniversary of their founding. Leaving a trail of service behind them, the oldest chapter in the state of Maryland has blazed a […]
Posted in!Front Page
4-count indictment filed against Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby alleges perjury, false statements on loan applications
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO The purchase of two out-of-state vacation homes are at the center of the federal indictment for Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron announced a four-count indictment, on Jan.13, with agents from the criminal investigation unit of the […]
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Dr. David K. Wilson: AFRO Person of the Year 2021
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO While we may never know what went through Henry Wilson’s mind the night before, we know what he eventually did. Daring to grow a different future for the last five of his ten children, the sharecropper gave in to demand: all five- including his youngest son, a part-time […]
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#WordinBlack: Baltimore City faces shortage of school nurses
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO School systems across the country are still struggling to return to normal life, even as the omicron variant of the coronavirus threatens progress made in the last 21 months. Enrollment trends are down, teachers are resigning instead of getting vaccinated and bus driver shortages are hindering efforts to […]
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Barbados welcomed as the world’s newest Republic
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Barbados officially broke up with the Queen of England Nov. 30. Though independent since Nov. 30, 1966, Barbadians took their freedom a step further at the stroke of midnight. The people not only declared themselves a free republic, but also installed a Black woman as their first president. […]
Posted inCoronavirus
Surgeon General and Top Pediatricians: Vaccination key in reducing physical and mental impact of COVID for children
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO From long-haul infections to the traumatic loss of loved ones, friends and caregivers- one thing is clear: Children living in the time of COVID-19 have been anything but spared by the pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 770,000 Americans have died and […]
