By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Last week, Mayor Brandon Scott announced a guaranteed annual income program for poor folks in Baltimore. The initiative, entitled the Baltimore Young Families Success Fund, is exciting and welcome news for a too little known nor long remembered segment of our city’s population: the poor, the low income, and the […]
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By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Good Friday’s All Women Prayer Leaders in St. Ann Catholic Church On a solemn Good Friday, last week, in the typically male-dominated Catholic Church in East Baltimore, known as St. Ann, a group of women leaders and preachers reflected on the “Seven Last Words of Jesus” as Biblically recorded. To […]
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The Moore Report: Grammy nominees united by music and parent’s bond of friendship
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. There is a strong local connection to the 64th Annual Grammy Awards Broadcast televised from Las Vegas on April 3. William Martin March, son of Priscilla and Erich March, is an Atlanta DJ whose program airs weekly for the entertainment of the little ones. Will (known as DJ Willy Wow!) […]
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The Moore Report: Underdogs and Under Siege? Coaches and Ouches
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Coaches The Peacocks of St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, N.J. were the Cinderella team of this year’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament. Now eliminated by the University of North Carolina Tar Heels (69-49) they made it to the Elite Eight, so the Peacocks have much to be proud […]
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The Moore Report: Bite-sized stories to chew on
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Racism raging while at war The horrors of the war in Ukraine duly noted, I’m sure many Americans are greatly concerned about the racially discriminatory treatment of Africans and East Indians attempting to leave Ukraine for their safety and security. It is not a “rumor” but widely re-reported in the […]
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The Moore Report: Rube Foster and Pete Hill: The hidden father figures of Black baseball
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. The Negro Baseball Leagues produced two of the greatest athletes and business leaders this country has ever known. Consider the stories of Andrew Bishop “Rube” Foster and John Preston “Pete” Hill. Few Little Leaguers or their grandparents know of these men- but they paved the way for Jackie Robinson’s break […]
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The Moore Report: UPDATE – Baltimore County’s redistricting plan: A Judge rules in favor of fairness and calls for a better one
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. U.S. District Court Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby on Feb. 22, blocked a redistricting plan from the Baltimore County Council that included just one majority Black council district and ordered county officials to adopt a new plan by March 8. Judge Grissby issued an order requiring county officials to adopt a new plan […]
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The Moore Report: What is Lent? And why should one care about it?
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO The season of Lent is the forty days of fasting, focus and fervent prayers before Easter Sunday. It is six weeks of prayer and fasting on many Christian church calendars that are somewhat solemn and call for self- denial. Some give up sweets, some stop smoking, […]
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The Moore Report: Interesting Bit and Pieces for All to Chew On
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Where are the Big Ideas to Help Fix Baltimore’s Brokenness? During the uprising in 2015 following the death of Freddie Gray, there seemed to be widespread awareness that Baltimore City, one of the structural poorest populations in the nation needed big changes to recover. And so, we waited and wondered […]
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You should know Reverend William Barber II: He always fights for you and yours
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. The preacher, Reverend William Barber, II, was born just two days after another noted minister, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Incidentally, the date for that historic event was selected by civil rights groups to […]
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Baltimore’s Children: Too many citizens killed at an early age
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. AFRONewsAtNoon It was shocking to read about it! A recent report from a panel of city officials under the direction of the Baltimore City Health Department reported that “the leading cause of ‘unexpected or unusual’ death among children in Baltimore is homicide,” There is a study done every five years […]
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Commentary: The Media is Trying to Benefit Financially from Bleeding Marilyn Mosby’s Story: What Ever Happened to Being Objective or Even Fairness?
The MOORE Report By Ralph E. Moore, Jr. Ever since Marilyn Mosby was indicted by a federal grand jury, January 13, on two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements on loan applications for the purchase of two vacation homes in Florida, the likes of Fox 45 News and a local newspaper […]