Women are being considered as possible candidates to run with Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on the November ballot, the GOP candidate’s wife said July 5. “We’ve been looking at that,” Ann Romney told CBS News in an interview. “There’s a lot of people Mitt is considering right now.” She declined to say more about […]
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AFRO Staff Writer
Posted inBaltimore Community, Baltimore News
African American Festival Expected to Draw 500,000
The performers are polishing their acts. The vendors are readying their inventory. Organizers are making sure the word gets out—the 36th annual African American Festival is coming and is expected to attract more than 500,000 participants to celebrate Black music, arts and culture, authorities said. The event, slated for July 7-8 at M&T Bank Stadium, […]
Posted inNational News
Black DAR Members Celebrate Their Ties to the Nation’s Independence
They are a group of African American women who have been able to trace their lineage to the nation’s founding patriots. They gathered for lunch five days before the nation was to celebrate its independence to discuss their role as Black members of the nation’s premiere heritage organization for women—the Daughters of the American Revolution. […]
Posted inNational News
Lawmakers Seek Capitol Platform for Frederick Douglass Statue
Bronze and seven feet tall, the statue of Douglass, 19th century abolitionist, orator, first Black U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia and presidential advisor, now stands in the lobby of a D.C. government building a few blocks from where non-voting Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and another member of Congress believe it should stand. […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Miami Man Accused of Eating Homeless Man’s Face Not High on Bath Salts During Attack
The Miami man who was shot to death by a police officer in May for allegedly chewing off a homeless man’s face did not have the “bath salts” drug in his system, lab tests have shown, despite initial reports that he was high on the substance at the time. Bath salts, a street drug with […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Obama Expected to Tour Fire-Ravaged Colo. Friday
President Barack Obama will visit wildfire-plagued Colorado Friday to thank firefighters and show his support for the state’s use of federal resources to help extinguish dozens of giant blazes that have stretched across the state. According to Yahoo! News, more than half of all active federal fire-fighting personnel, fire engines, and helicopters are trying to […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Firing of First Black Texas Police Chief Sparks Divide
After just 16 months as the first Black police chief of Jasper, Tx., Rodney Pearson has been fired—his dismissal he said was due to his race. “I was fired over race,” Pearson told CNN, “and now I feel that me and my family are marked.” According to Blackamericaweb.com, Pearson’s promotion was a “racial progression” for […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Michelle Obama Addresses AME Quadrennial Session in Nashville
(June 28, 2012) First Lady Michelle Obama spoke June 27 at the same National African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Quadrennial Session of the General Conference at which her husband appeared four years ago when he was a senator on the campaign trail. She was given praises and thanks, for both she and President Barack Obama, […]
Posted inSpecialCoverage
Biden Hammers Romney at NABJ Convention
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is “out of touch with the nation’s middle class” and his party’s policies reflect public policies better suited to the previous century, Vice President Joe Biden told a gathering of the nation’s Black journalists June 21. Biden cast the upcoming presidential election campaign as a referendum on the nation’s […]
Posted inPrince George's County News
Malawian President Visits Prince George’s Church
There have only been three female presidents of African countries, and one of them visited a Prince George’s County church on June 17 during her trip to the United States. Joyce Banda, Malawi’s first woman president and an unyielding women’s right leader, was honored by the Greater Mt. Nebo Church in Bowie. The church awarded […]
Posted inHealth
Obesity Rates Prevalent in Maryland Blacks
Some say money can buy healthiness, but it looks like Prince George’s County just proved that notion wrong. The country’s most affluent African American population is the fattest county in Maryland. According to Prince George County’s Health Improvement Plan, the county has a 69 percent obesity rate, which increased to 70 percent just last year. […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Black World War II Veteran Honored by White House
As the nation prepared to celebrate Memorial Day, the White House recently honored 11 citizens who are committed to helping veterans, including an African American who founded an organization to assist unemployed, disabled and homeless vets. In a ceremony May 24, the White House Office of Public Engagement honored the citizens as “Champions of Change.” […]