By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Week two of the remedial phase of the Maryland Higher Education Desegregation Trial, as the case is popularly known, featured the testimony of Dr. Earl Richardson, former president of Morgan State University and the man credited by many with transforming Maryland’s designated public urban university and the state’s largest […]
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Baltimore’s Homeless Population Continues to Grow
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Despite an historic national decline in the rate of homelessness across the U.S., Baltimore’s homeless population continues to grow. The most recent report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reveals that Baltimore’s homelessness population this year is 2725, up 6% from 2014, the last year […]
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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 […]
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Baltimore Moves Closer to $15 Minimum Wage
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Baltimore City Council is slowly moving toward final passage of a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. But Council members and supporters still have one more river to cross before the final approval. City Council members gave the bill preliminary passage on […]
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One Hour of Silence in W. Balto. Following Violence
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO “One hour of silence; one hour of no violence,” chanted participants who gathered at a school playground in the heart of Sandtown-Winchester July 14. Approximately 100 parents, families, youth, teachers, community activists, and residents came braving the near 100-degree heat to stand together in the wake of a rash […]
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Leon Pinkett Looks to Bring Hope to Baltimore’s 7th District
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Leon Pinkett hopes to trade a post in Baltimore City’s Executive branch for a seat on the City Council representing Baltimore’s 7th District in November. Pinkett, who was appointed assistant deputy mayor, Mayor’s office of economic and neighborhood development by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in 2014, won the Democratic Council […]
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Baltimore Citizens & Advocates Decry Cuts to Kids’ Programs
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO One by one, residents stood at the podium during a hearing held April 12 at the War Memorial in Downtown Baltimore, expressing shock and disbelief at Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake’s decision to cut $4.2 million from after-school and community-based educational programs in her proposed fiscal year 2017 budget. […]
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Baltimore Mayoral Candidates Debate Issues on Larry Young Show
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Five of the 29 mayoral candidates for Baltimore answered the call to “rise and shine” for Radio One’s mayoral forum on March 24. The event was put on by WOLB -AM 1010 radio host, and former Maryland State Senator, Larry Young. Young believes Radio One represents a unique outlet […]
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Lead Paint Leaves Tragic Legacy in Baltimore
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO In Flint – it’s in the water. In Baltimore –it’s in the walls. The lead paint legacy of Baltimore’s poor and predominately Black neighborhoods is a long and tragic story unfolding in plain sight before our eyes. “Every single poor child who lives in a rental property in Baltimore […]
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MD Legislature Seeks Lead Protections for People Like Freddie Gray
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO At the time of his death in April 2015, Freddie Gray was living off of a “pennies on the dollar” lump sum lead poisoning payment arranged by Access Funding, a financial company that purchases court-ordered settlements meant to be paid out to victims, often called “lead babies,” over many […]
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I ‘Died’ Three Times From Heart Disease and Lived to Tell the Tale
By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Shannon Century flashes a shy smile as she talks about the day she died back in 2011 while watching TV in her living room. The tall, elegant, 33-year-old mother of two who lives in Mid-Town Baltimore has actually “died” several times since her first episode of sudden cardiac arrest […]