First Mount Carmel Christian Community Church’s Youth Day is on August 23rd at 11 a.m. Free school supplies will be given to children. The guest preacher is Minister Brittnie Sykes and the guest gospel rapper is “Dynamite” Joel B. Thomas. The church is located at 2900 West North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21216. Call 410.728.4000 for more […]
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Posted inPrince George's County News
BlackRock Center for the Arts to Host Annual Open House
BlackRock Center for the Arts will host its annual Open House on August 22nd from 10 a.m.-1p.m. The event is free and open to everyone. At the Open House members of the public will get a taste of all BlackRock has to offer, including sample art classes, gallery exhibits, and a family-friendly live performance by […]
Posted inBaltimore News
2nd Annual Outside the Walls Back to School Service
Come on August 16th at 10 a.m. to Christian Liberty Church’s Back to School Service. Free back packs and school supplies will be given to elementary and high school students. The services will be held at Frederick Douglas High School, 2301 Gwynn’s Falls Parkway, Baltimore, MD 21217. To donate or for more information contact 410.523.LOVE […]
Posted inSports
Little League Claims Fraud, Cover-Up by Jackie Robinson West
In this Aug. 27, 2014, file photo, members of the Jackie Robinson West Little League baseball team participate in a rally celebrating the team’s U.S. Little League Championship in Chicago. Little League International has stripped Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West team of its national title after finding the team falsified its boundary map. The league made […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
District Hosts Young African Leaders in Mandela Fellowship
2014 Mandela Washington Fellows during the Summit with President Obama. (Courtesy Photo youngafricanleaders.state.gov/) Young African leaders gathered in the District to participate in a U.S. government-sponsored fellowship program summit. The presidential summit, supported by the Obama-founded Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), took place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Northwest from Aug. 2-5. Five hundred […]
Posted inCommentary, OPINION
There Is Still Work To Be Done
Elijah Cummings Last week, as our nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, I recalled our struggles here in Baltimore during that earlier time when I was young. I remembered how Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Esq., of the Baltimore NAACP taught the young people of my South Baltimore neighborhood that we had […]
Posted inEditorial, OPINION
Warning: The Rising D.C. Homicides Threat
(AP David Goldman) As the summer nears its end, the death toll in D.C. is not subsiding. The city’s homicide count, for 2015, currently stands at 91 victims, a 28.2 percent increase, from 71 victims, at the same time last year. Causes for the spike in homicides can be attributed to several different factors, including […]
Posted inEditorial, OPINION
Ferguson and Baltimore: Demonstrating Violence
People come to the aid of a distraught woman after gunshots were fired near a protest in Ferguson, Mo., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015. The one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson began with a march in his honor and ended with a protest that was interrupted by gunfire. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) As protesters gathered […]
Posted inBaltimore News
March on North Avenue
Andre Powell, left, an organizer with Baltimore People’s Power Assembly and Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore SCLC, lead a march on North Avenue in Baltimore at one of the sites of unrest following the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being arrested by Baltimore police in April. The University of Maryland’s Francis […]
Posted inBaltimore News
The AFRO and Morgan State Announce Research Partnership
Dr. David Wilson with the members of the Quarles Institute Committee and members of the College Of Liberal Arts. The AFRO-American and Morgan State University announced a partnership on Aug. 11. Morgan State received a grant of $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help establish the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences […]
Posted inBaltimore News
AFRO Publisher to Chair UNCF Baltimore Campaign
John Jacob “Jake” Oliver, CEO of The Afro-American Newspaper, was named Chairman of the 2015-2016 United Negro College Fund Baltimore Campaign. He will provide advice and counsel to the UNCF staff on community outreach and developing new partnerships.
Posted inBaltimore News
Malvin L. Brown, Long Lost Baltimore Smoke Jumper, Finally Honored
l to r: Timothy McCoy, 555th Parachute Infantry Association, Baltimore chapter; Liane Young, author and national representative of the 555th Parachute Infantry Association; Dennis Symes, National Smoke Jumpers Association; Art Hinaman, assistant, US Forest Service, Fire & Aviation, holding the plaque to be attached to Brown’s headstone; Mary Wagner, associate chief, US Forest Service and […]
