By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Baltimore Playwright and journalist Ursula Battle is bringing her production “Serenity House: From Addiction to Deliverance,” back to the stage. The play has […]
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Posted inBUSINESS
Lessons in generational wealth: three families share their stories
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” —Proverbs 22:6 […]
Posted inNational News
Black lawmakers from Tennessee reinstated
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Both of the expelled Tennessee legislators, Rep. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been reinstated by the Shelby County Commission in Memphis, Tenn. […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Baltimore officials nix plan to release wastewater from Palestine, Ohio trainwreck into Dundalk waterways
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott directed the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) to block the discharge of wastewater treated from the […]
Posted inReligion
Faith leaders, elected officials respond to death of Rev. Alfred C.D. Vaughn, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Rev. Alfred Corrogan Daniel Vaughn, pastor of Baltimore’s Sharon Baptist Church, passed away quietly on March 19 at home surrounded by his family, his […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Baltimore City Council special committee confirms Faith Leach as chief administrative officer
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO It took the Baltimore City Council’s Rules and Legislative Oversight Committee less than 20 minutes to approve the nomination of Faith Leach as […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Randallstown NAACP weighs in on revitalization plan for nine-mile Liberty Road corridor
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO The Randallstown NAACP created a task force nearly eight months ago to focus on the revitalization of the nine mile corridor of Liberty […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Cathy explains it all: Baltimore City officials continue to haggle over the conduit system– but what does it really mean?
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO In an October 2022 interview with the AFRO- American Newspapers, Mayor Brandon Scott told Ralph Moore that Baltimore City was not selling its […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Marshall “Eddie” Conway, political activist, Black Panther Party member, dies
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Marshall “Eddie” Conway, a former Black Panther Party member and prison reform advocate whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 44 years […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Grove Park residents sound off about plans to turn abandoned school building into a nursing facility
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO If Grove Park community leaders have their way, the elementary school that was shut down five years ago won’t become the future site […]
Posted inMaryland Government
Gov. Wes Moore completes first week in office
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Governor Wes Moore wasted little time getting to work in his new role. The first Black man to lead the state of Maryland […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Best of Wes
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO The inauguration of Maryland’s first African American governor was nothing short of spectacular. From the promenade of the state’s first family – Gov. […]