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Author Archives: Sean Yoes

AFRO Baltimore Editor

Posted inBaltimore News

Hip Hop legend Monie Love headlines Cherry Hill Waterfront Festival

by Sean YoesJuly 4, 2023July 4, 2023

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO The organizers of the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Festival have been intentional in their desire to “celebrate culture” in their beloved […]

Posted inOPINION

Op-Ed: Repair our communities, or else

by Sean YoesApril 13, 2023April 13, 2023

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO Many residents of Poppleton and Harlem Park who live in the shadow of the Highway to Nowhere, the infamous 1.4 mile truncated stretch […]

Posted inBaltimore News

Diana L. Gibson dies at 82 years old

by Sean YoesMarch 20, 2023March 22, 2023

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO Diana L. Gibson passed away on March 15, 2023 of a heart attack at her home. She was 82 years old.  Diana Rita […]

Posted inBaltimore News

Baltimore author chronicles daughter’s triumph over sickle cell

by Sean YoesJanuary 6, 2023January 6, 2023

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO It is believed that a mother’s love is the salve that can heal all wounds. But, even a mother’s love is put to […]

Posted inBaltimore News

FaithWorks – AFRO Exclusive: Baltimore Pastor Walks for #RUNMovement

by Sean YoesNovember 16, 2022November 16, 2022

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO In the early morning hours of Veteran’s Day with the sun still far from the horizon, The Rev. Robert Turner, pastor of the […]

Posted inBooks

Baltimore author chronicles daughter’s triumph over sickle cell

by Sean YoesMay 15, 2022May 15, 2022

By Sean Yoes, Special to the AFRO It is believed that a mother’s love is the salve that can heal all wounds. But, even a mother’s love is put to […]

Posted inAfro Briefs

“Our community is being wiped out”

by Sean YoesMarch 10, 2022March 13, 2022

By Sean Yoes On a frigid Saturday night in Ashland, Virginia, several members of the Brown Grove Preservation Group gathered at Around the Table, a Black-owned soul food restaurant in […]

Posted inArts & Culture, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, Music, National News, NEWS

The greatness, genius of Marvin Gaye

by Sean YoesJune 22, 2021January 25, 2022

He is as big an influence on modern performers across genres as anybody who has had a voice over the last 50 years. (Courtesy shutterstock) By Sean Yoes Special to […]

Posted in!Front Page

Black Supergroups of the 1970s

by Sean YoesJune 21, 2021January 25, 2022

Son Reynolds, Keith Holland, Maurice White, Philip Bailey, James Pankow, Robert Lamm on stage for NBC Today ShowChicago and Earth, Wind and Fire Concert, Rockefeller Center, New York, July, 2005. […]

Posted inARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Soundtrack of the 1970s

by Sean YoesJune 19, 2021January 25, 2022

Soundtrack of the 1970s: Shaft, Car Wash, and The Jeffersons By Sean Yoes Special to the AFRO A significant chapter in the history of Black American culture was the so-called […]

Posted inNEWS

I’ll Be Around

by Sean YoesJune 11, 2021January 25, 2022

Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com June is Black Music Month and in next week’s AFRO we’ll be presenting our monthly special edition “We’re Still Here,” that […]

Posted inNEWS

Tulsa massacre was no secret to Black Press

by Sean YoesJune 3, 2021January 25, 2022

Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com One hundred years ago this week thousands of White terrorists descended upon the wildly prosperous Black community of Tulsa Oklahoma known […]

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