In this Nov. 5, 2014 file photo, Dr. Dre attends the WSJ. Magazine 2014 Innovator Awards at MoMA in New York. Dr. Dre says he will donate his royalties from his new album to the city of Compton for a new performing arts facility. Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre” will be released Friday, Aug. […]
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Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary, Activists Continue to Fight
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall The 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act is marked on Aug. 6. In 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Act surrounded by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights martyrs. Untold Black lives paid the price for all citizens to cast a ballot free of intimidation. Yet, today, […]
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Obama: Iran Deal Builds on Diplomacy that Won Cold War
President Barack Obama launched a blistering denunciation of opposition to his Iran deal Aug. 5th, arguing that none of the criticism stands up to scrutiny and warning that if Congress blocks the accord it will put the U.S. on the path to another Middle East war. President Obama said the nuclear deal with Iran builds […]
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Has Much Changed Since 1955?
Rika Tyler and T-Dubb-O Some may say much has changed since our grandparents were boycotting in the streets of the U.S. during the Civil Rights era. Some new laws and policies did in fact give Black people some of the same civil liberties as other citizens in this country. However, we are still being mentally […]
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A Journey of Mourning in Charleston
George H. Lambert, Jr Charleston, SC, is one of America’s most beautiful cities, but on June 29th I couldn’t see the beauty, because the pain cloaked it so thoroughly. The day before, during a conference call of the leadership of the Urban League Movement, I had learned that one of the nine victims of the […]
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Closing Balto’s City Jail–What Took Them So Long?
Now that Gov. Hogan has announced plans to “immediately” close the scandal plagued Men’s Detention Center housed in the Baltimore City Detention Center, questions must be asked. Namely, why did it take so long? Report after report has pointed out the inhumane conditions that persisted at the jail as well as the scandal of Black […]
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Blue Uniforms: Protectors or Predators?
There is an embedded terror in the U.S., and it is not the boogie man or ISIS. It’s racism. Racism is often expressed through stereotypes, unsubstantiated judgments, discrimination and violence. Lately, racism has been portrayed by the very individuals sworn to protect the communities in this country, regardless of race, culture, sexual orientation or creed. […]
Posted inBaltimore News
NAACP Statement on the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
(Washington, DC) – The NAACP has released the following statement regarding the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From Cornell William Brooks, NAACP President & CEO: “Today as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we must draw upon the example and the strength of those that sacrificed blood, […]
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Baltimore Police Make Arrest in Killing of Transgender Woman
26-year-old Mia Henderson. (Facebook Photo) BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore police have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a transgender woman last July. Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis announced Thursday that 44-year-old Shawn Oliver has been arrested and charged with the murder of 26-year-old Mia Henderson, who was found stabbed to death July […]
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
2:27 P.M. EDT South Court Auditorium—- Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., listens at right as President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) THE PRESIDENT: Thank […]
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Tonight: AFRO’s First Edition with Sean Yoes, Thursday, August 6
Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u We’ll sit down with Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who recently wrote a scathing editorial in the Baltimore Sun, strongly rebuking the suggestion that she derailed the process of Baltimore implementing a, “homicide commission.” And as we close in on the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael […]
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Edwards Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 6, 2015 Contact: Dan Weber (202) 225-8699 Edwards Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act Calls for immediate Congressional action to pass new VRA after the Roberts Court struck down a portion of the law in 2013. Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (MD-4) released the following statement […]
