By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. “Take me out to the ball game,Take me out with the crowd.Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks.I don’t care if I never get back.”Lyrics by Jack Norworth, melody by Albert Von Tilzer, 1908 Recently, I decided to watch the Orioles’ first post season playoff appearance since 2016. I turned […]
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The Moore Report: Rome-ward bound: Baltimore advocates secure appointment to recommend African-American candidates for sainthood
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. We are soon going to Rome! Two years ago, we– that is, the Social Justice Committee of St. Ann Church in East Baltimore– launched a letter writing initiative for the expedited canonizations of the first six African-American candidates for sainthood from the United States. Mother Mary Lange, Father Augustus Tolton, […]
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The Moore Report: Major League Baseball’space on the field and in racial diversity
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Face it, it has taken a long time to watch a baseball game from start to finish over the years. America’s pastime has not been America’s fast time. Calling the pace of your average Major League Baseball (MLB) game slow as molasses was just not fair to the crushed sugar […]
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The Moore Report: Just a few random thoughts about how health and safety impacts our psyches
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. For the love of football The Baltimore Ravens experienced lots of injuries in Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans. Tight end Mark Andrews, cornerback Marlon Humprey, offensive tackle Ronnie Stanley and wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. were all injured. The game status of the hurt athletes ranged from perhaps suitable […]
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The Moore Report: Buses for Baltimore City Public School students…and other transportation woes
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. As schools opened last week for the 2023-24 academic year, the daily news was filled with Howard County students stranded without rides to and from school. There were no yellow school bus rides as typically available to them, parents were exceedingly frustrated. It seems awfully convenient to have a school […]
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How Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea Moss, became scapegoats for Trump’s election loss
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Recently, a grand jury in Georgia decided to charge Donald Trump with racketeering after allegedly conspiring with 18 others to steal that state’s election results. Georgia’s results helped Joe Biden win the election, so Trump and company allegedly tried to alter or simply steal the results with stunts, lies and videotape. […]
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The Moore Report: Is the Sainthood process a game Black Catholics can’t win?
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. “You can’t win. You can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the game. People keep sayin’ things are gonna change, but it looks just like they’re staying the same.” –Michael Jackson, as “Scarecrow” in the musical, “The Wiz” Currently, there are no Black saints from the United States […]
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The Moore Report: Black youth taking care of business: something to be very proud about
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Kids! I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today… Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way? – “Bye Bye Birdie,” the musical There is nothing wrong with our children and youth overall. Yes some (too many) have gone astray, carrying guns and engaging in gun […]
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The Moore Report: Baltimore celebrates Henrietta Lacks as the moral arc of the universe bends her way
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. The legal settlement over the unauthorized, unjustified harvesting and distribution of Henrietta Lacks’ unique cancerous DNA cells began in Baltimore. You may have heard that a 31-year-old wife and mother of five entered a racially segregated hospital ward at Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore in 1951. And, while being […]
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The Moore Report: The sun and the gun are killing us: some ideas to chew on
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO The heat of the sun is beyond punishing these days. Triple digit temperatures are being felt all over the world and they are extremely dangerous. Just for the record, there have been hot temperatures occasionally in the past reminiscent of what we are currently experiencing. The […]
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The Moore Report: The March on Washington has a couple of fascinating back stories
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO The date for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, was picked with a particular event in mind. It was selected to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the senseless murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy who had traveled to Mississippi from his hometown of Chicago […]
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The Moore Report: Race relations in the military mark a long, winding road in America for Blacks
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO African Americans have served in every military conflict in United States history, volunteering and insisting–at times–to be allowed to enlist. It has not been easy for Blacks to fight for freedom overseas while being denied freedom at home. It was not comfortable (to put it mildly) […]
