President Barack Obama retrieves a club from a cart while golfing Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Obama is spending his first full day of vacation on the island playing golf. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama […]
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Bipartisan Congress Group Seeks to Electrify Africa
For hundreds of millions of Africans, 2015 remains a dark age and sunset signals hours of darkness and hours of lost study time, stifled industry and even poorer health services, as medicines cannot be refrigerated. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Maryland Democrat Benjamin Cardin are hoping to bring 50 million of those […]
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Bobbi Kristina’s Estate Makes New Claim Against Partner, Nick Gordon
Nick Gordon and Bobbi Kristina Brown. (AP Photo Jordan Strauss/Invision) ATLANTA (AP) — The administrator of Bobbi Kristina Brown’s estate has added a wrongful death count to the lawsuit against her partner. The amended lawsuit filed Friday also accuses Nick Gordon of giving her a “toxic cocktail” and putting her face-down in water. The 22-year-old […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Black Texas College Football Player Shot by Police was Unarmed
19-year-old Christian Taylor, a sophomore at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Tex., (Twitter Photo) ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A police officer in suburban Dallas shot and killed a Black college football player during a struggle after the unarmed 19-year-old crashed a car through the front window of a car dealership, authorities said. The Tarrant […]
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Obama Begins Martha’s Vineyard Vacation a Day Early
AIR STATION CAPE COD, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama has arrived in Massachusetts for his annual summer vacation. President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha walk off of Marine One and head towards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. The president will return […]
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49ers Linebacker Aldon Smith Released by Team after Latest Arrest
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Aldon Smith received second chance after second chance with the San Francisco 49ers, who parted ways with their troubled linebacker Friday following his fifth run-in with the law. Only a few days earlier, general manager Trent Baalke expressed his desire to keep Smith beyond this season, which would have been FILE […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
District Strengthens Police, Community Relationships with National Night Out Against Crime
Ward 8 residents take part in Washington D.C.’s National Night Out. (AFRO Photo/Linda Poulson) At a time when violent crimes have spiked in Washington, D.C., synthetic drugs may be turning into an epidemic, and police shootings of Black individuals are occurring more frequently, National Night Out served as a welcomed relief to residents and police […]
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Donnie Simpson to Come Out of Retirement, Returning to D.C. Airwaves
Donnie Simpson Donnie Simpson will add to his four-decade legacy in television and radio, leaving retirement to join the talent on Washington D.C.’s WMMJ MAGIC 102.3 FM and TV One, Radio One officials announced this week. The sultry-voiced broadcaster again will be heard as host of “The Donnie Simpson Show” weekdays from 3-7 p.m. beginning […]
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Tonight: AFRO’s First Edition with Sean Yoes, Friday, August 7.
Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll dive into last night’s GOP debate in Cleveland with political commentators Barry Rascovar, John Bullock of Towson University and the AFRO’s Roberto Alejandro. Plus, more on 21st Century Jim Crow in Pocomoke City, MD. and the firing of that town’s first Black police chief, with our regular contributors, […]
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Federal Safety Board to Hold Hearing on Tracy Morgan Crash
Tracy Morgan in 2014. (Greg Allen/Invision/AP) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Federal investigators will meet next week to determine the probable cause of the accident that injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and killed one of his friends. The National Transportation Safety Board scheduled a meeting for Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C. A Wal-Mart truck slammed into the […]
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A Year after Michael Brown’s Death, Ferguson has Changed
In this May 20, 2015 file photo, Michael Brown Sr. unwraps a plaque remembering his son, Michael Brown, to show volunteers. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File) FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A year ago, Ferguson, Missouri, was a mostly quiet working-class suburban town. The uneasy relationship between its growing Black population and its mostly White police force […]
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Solange Knowles’ New Puma Campaign Honors Groundbreaking Black Women
DJ, singer and actress Solange Knowles is celebrating creative women with her new Puma collection. Solange Knowles (left), and (right) a photo from her new PUMA campaign, “Word to the Woman”. (Photo: AP/Charles Sykes/MediaPunch and PUMA) Knowles recently unveiled her third collaboration with Puma, featuring footwear entitled “Word to the Woman,” according to Knowles’ website. […]
