By Ralph E. Moore Jr. With the recent death of retired Pope Benedict XVI, some little-known history of Black occupants of the papacy comes to mind. That history tells us there were three Black popes in Catholic Church history: Pope Victor I who headed the church from 189 A.D. to 199 A.D., Pope Miltiades (311 […]
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The Moore Report: A year in review: looking back on my 2022 columns
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. The AFRO American Newspaper has blessed me with a column for over a year as of Oct. 2. The year before that, I was a freelance writer for the newspaper and AFRO.com. It has been my absolute pleasure to share my info and opinions with curious readers. And it is […]
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The Moore Report: Don’t forget Pelé: soccer’s first world super star
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr., Special to the AFRO If you were paying attention to the 2022 World Cup that just ended, remember Pelé, an 82-year-old Brazilian, whom some have called the world’s greatest soccer player of all time. Some of the planet watches Major League Baseball’s so-called World Series and much of the globe […]
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The Moore Report: Take control of your life– break those bad habits today
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Many of us have at least one bad habit. Whether it be overeating, oversleeping, overspending, drinking too much or gossiping, we all have that one thing we need to stop or start doing. The question challenging so many of us is, “How do you break a […]
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Could Jim Crow achieve sainthood before the six worthy Black candidates-in waiting?
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Saint Jim Crow. How does that sound? Jim Crow was not a real human being. The name refers to White entertainers who used a stereotype of Blacks to denigrate people of color. The term evolved over time, eventually applying to the laws and customs that underpinned […]
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Railroad workers rally for sick days, dignity and fairness in quality of work life
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Railroad Workers United (RWU) members and their supporters staged a rally Dec.7 near the Inner Harbor to push for paid sick leave for the nation’s freight train workers. Congress and President Joe Biden acted to avert a strike by rail workers before Thanksgiving, but scuttled sick […]
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The Moore Report: The bad luck of hitting the wrong numbers this week
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr., The Moore Report, The Afro American News If it were just a board game of gun violence, it wouldn’t hurt so badly but it is not a game. Real lives are being lost. As the slogan would say, “you gotta play” to lose. Unfortunately, we hit 610 mass shootings in […]
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The Moore Report: the best baseball players and all center fielders in the league
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Pardon my name dropping, but I mentioned to Adam Jones in a Zoom meeting the other day that all my favorite baseball players were center fielders. I loved watching baseball with my dad when I was a little boy. He’d be sitting in his easy chair […]
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The Moore Report: What Is All Souls Day and why was it just observed?
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO All Souls Day is observed on November 2 of each year in the Catholic and other Christian traditions. It is a day of remembrance with prayer, meals and visits to cemeteries. Those who have gone before us are honored fondly for the lives they led; they […]
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The Moore Report: Why don’t Black folks play pickleball?
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO In case you missed it, the fastest growing sport in the U.S. today is called pickleball, but it has actually been around for decades. According to pickleballportal.com, pickleball was created back in 1965–some 57 years ago– on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle in […]
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The Moore Report: Mansa Musa, past African Emperor of Mali, is the richest person who ever lived
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO To find out who the richest person in the world was to have ever lived, you have to go to the 14th century. His wealth was greater than that of Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft, or Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. These men are the richest […]
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The Moore Report: The unique commemoration of racial integration at Loyola Blakefield
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO There is something bold and inspiring about the wall that has been up at Loyola Blakefield, a 170-year-old Catholic middle and high school for boys in Towson, Md. The wall, named “Black, Blue and Gold,” combines the school’s colors—blue and gold—with the race of the African-American […]