President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. (AP Photo) Muhammad Ali was The Greatest. Period. If you just asked him, he’d tell you. He’d tell you he was the double greatest; that he’d “handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder into jail.” But what made The Champ the greatest – what truly separated him from everyone else […]
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Posted inWashington D.C. News
D.C.’s Step Afrika! Celebrates 21 Years
Step Afrika!, an international dance company based in Washington, D. C., is commemorating 21 years of dance and educational youth empowerment with a fundraising event. The Step Afrika! VIP Gala will be held on June 9 at Dock 5 Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE., at 7 p.m. Step Afrika! is a nonprofit dance company […]
Posted inReligion
Diversity Remains Elusive in U.S. Churches
Churches in the United States remain bastions of segregation decades after the Civil Rights Movement produced legal barriers to the practice. In 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is 11 o’clock on Sunday morning” and, according to experts, that assertion remains […]
Posted inNational News
Senate Republican Leader McConnell Denies Voting Rights Problems
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is praising the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, dismissing concerns that the ruling has fueled laws that undermine the voting rights of minority voters. In Shelby County vs. Holder the Supreme Court invalidated the […]
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Michelle Obama Praises Diverse Grads in N.Y. Commencement Speech
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to the class of 2016 in her final commencement speech as first lady, Friday June 3, 2016, during commencement at CCNY in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama praised the diverse graduates of the city’s oldest public institution of higher learning and took a mild […]
Posted inSports
Goodbye to The Greatest: Even Weak, Ali had Imposing Stature
It was 1980 and Muhammad Ali had no business being in the ring against a younger and stronger Larry Holmes, no matter how much his entourage kept telling him how good he looked in training. This is an Oct. 9, 1974, file photo showing Muhammad Ali. Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and […]
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Muhammad Ali, Who Riveted the World as ‘The Greatest,’ Dies
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is seen waving before the Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley fight in Las Vegas on May 1, 2010 (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) Muhammad Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, has died. He was 74. Ali suffered for years […]
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AP sources: Ali Remains Hospitalized for ‘Serious’ Issues
In this Feb. 22, 2012, file photo, former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali poses at St. Joseph’s Hospital Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix. Ali, the magnificent heavyweight champion whose fast fists and irrepressible personality transcended sports and captivated the world, has died according to a statement released by his family Friday, June 3, 2016. He […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Missing 13-year-old Baltimore Girl Found—Now Safe Back Home
Daiona Talbot, who went missing on May 14, has been found and is back at home. (Courtesy photo) Daiona Talbot, the 13-year-old Baltimore girl whom the AFRO reported as missing on May 23, is home safe and sound, according to her mother Cassandra Stanback. She was found by family members on May 27 in Baltimore […]
Posted inHealth
Mental Health Study: Therapists Discriminate against Black, Poor People
Black Americans and those of lower socioeconomic classes are less likely to receive requested therapy appointments, creating another source of disparity in mental health care, according to a behavioral research report. A study published June 1 in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior showed that middle-class Black participants experienced higher rates of racial discrimination […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
3 Guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Murder Abroad in IS Case
Abdirahman Yasin Daud, 22; Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 22, and Guled Ali Omar, 21. (AP Photos) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit murder overseas— a charge that carries a possible sentence of life in prison. The defendants — Guled Ali Omar, 21; Abdirahman […]
Posted inCommentary
WHAT ABOUT HARAMBE?
Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdney – Since his shooting at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, the death of Harambe, a seventeen-year-old male, western lowland silverback gorilla, has created a firestorm of controversy in contemporary “culture wars.” There has been considerable second-guessing and “Monday morning quarterbacking” concerning the decision to shoot theanimal and, even worse, there […]
