News that an Academy Award-nominated Black child actress is starring in an upcoming film version of the musical Annie sent opponents of her casting over the edge on Twitter recently. On […]
Author Archives: Blair Adams
AFRO Staff Writer
Baltimore Officials Launch Town Hall Tour to Address Crime Concerns
Standing at the center of the Moorish Tower at Druid Hill Park Reservoir in Baltimore, dozens of community leaders, city officials and concerned citizens stood to hear city leaders’ plans […]
Dr. Sylvester J. Gates, Black Physicist, Named 2014 Scientist of the Year
University of Maryland’s John S. Toll Professor of Physics, Dr. Sylvester James Gates Jr., the first African American to hold an endowed chair in physics at a major U.S. research […]
Baltimore Corner Stores Targeted to Expand Healthier Inner City Food Choices
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s battle against childhood obesity is being boosted by a program that will also storm part of the West Baltimore food desert and provide city residents—and their […]
Fuel Fund, Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake, BGE Help Homeless Clear Utility Debt
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Feb. 25 announced she has joined with the Fuel Fund of Maryland and Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) to help local homeless persons overcome a major […]
Four car pile-up leaves one dead, two hospitalized
A car accident at the intersection of N. Fulton Avenue and Presstman Street on Feb. 23 left one man dead and several others injured. According to Police Spokesperson Det. Jarron […]
Eight-Year-Old Baltimore Boy Killed in Building Collapse
The last time Shanika Brown spoke to her 8-year-old son Troy Douglas was when she dropped him off at William Paca Elementary School in east Baltimore on the morning of […]
President Obama, Md Black & Political Leaders Advance Minimum Wage Campaign
President Obama signed an executive order Feb. 12 to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to 10.10 an hour from the current $7.25 per hour, fulfilling a pledge […]
Black History Month Menu Backfires at Calif. Private School
The idea behind a special, Black History Month cafeteria menu may have been noble and well-intentioned but controversy resulted Feb. 3 when students at Carondelet High School for Girls arrived […]
Eastside Welcomes First New Public School in 20 Years
Nearly 400 people gathered in the auditorium of Henderson Hopkins School, Feb. 10, to officially cut the ribbon on the first new public school to open in East Baltimore in […]
Baltimore Mayor, Elected Officials Mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
For more than 10 years, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day has been a platform for officials and community leaders to discuss the deadly affliction. This year, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City […]
Fearing Gentrification, Black Portland Neighborhood tells Trader Joe’s ‘No’ to New Store
The Trader Joe’s grocery store chain recently announced that it no longer plans to open a store in a predominately African-American neighborhood in Portland after activists claimed the store’s prices […]