By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Dr. Anne O. Emery embraced thousands of former Baltimore City Public School students that she referred to as “my children” during a storied career as an educator. The woman many of those students referred to as “the queen mother” passed away earlier this month. Emery died the morning […]
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Redistricting: Fighting For Black Political Power in Baltimore County
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Historically, redistricting has been wielded to diminish Black political power. University of Maryland Law Professor Larry S. Gibson says it may soon be used to increase Black political power in Baltimore County. The County’s lone Council representative isn’t so sure. Implausibly gerrymandered political maps of Congressional and state […]
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Michelle Obama Chops Up Trump
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com During a speech for the ages during a time for the ages, First Lady Michelle Obama stayed true to form and went high, yet somehow managed to surgically filet the lowest president in the history of the United States. It was Obama, as only she can, who magnificently […]
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Family, Friends Celebrate Life of `Binx’ Watts
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Rodney “Binx” Watts, a beloved Baltimore golf legend, as well as an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, died on August 7, due to complications from COVID-19. He was 75. Watts, the son of pioneering legal figure, Judge Robert Watts, who worked with Thurgood Marshall, was the first Black […]
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Dr. Anne O. Emery, Dead at 93
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Dr. Anne Osborne Emery, one of the most beloved and venerated educators of the Baltimore City Public Schools has died. She was 93. According to a source close to Dr. Emery’s family, she died this morning Aug. 19. Her career in public school education spanned several decades from […]
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The American Non-Violent Protest Movement is Rooted In Baltimore
Originally Published January 11, 2018 By Sean Yoes The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began Dec. 1955 propelled the boycott’s leader, 26-year old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight and sparked the American civil rights movement. However, more than 20 years earlier Baltimore’s Black community organized protests to begin the eradication of one […]
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The Forgotten Freedom Rider
Originally published Jan. 15, 2005 By Sean Yoes AFRO Staff Editor Before Rosa Parks’ definitive act of civil disobedience in 1955, Irene Morgan bucked Jim Crow and, with the help of Thurgood Marshall, took her case to the Supreme Court and won. As a young man in Harlem of the 1940s, Stanley Kirkaldy experienced the […]
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The Roots of Student Nonviolent Protest in Baltimore
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com When the legendary civil rights warrior the Hon. John Robert Lewis died last month, his legacy of unselfish sacrifice on behalf of the disenfranchised resonated throughout not only the nation, but around the globe. A big part of Lewis’ legacy is connected to the early days of the […]
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A Renewed Attack on Voting Rights
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com According to the Washington Post, the 45th President of the United States has told more than 20,000 lies as his first term comes to a close. But, perhaps the most insidious and damaging ongoing series of lies being injected into the public discourse by Donald Trump is his […]
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The National Urban League
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com On August 13, the National Urban League released its 2020 State of Black America report, the 44th edition of the civil rights organization’s analysis of the plight of the Black community. In the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 165,000 Americans, with a disproportionate number […]
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The Legacy of CORE
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Walter P. Carter was the Baltimore chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), at the zenith of the group’s power and a giant of the Civil Rights Movement. His daughter State Sen. Jill P. Carter spoke to the AFRO about her father and the legacy of CORE. […]
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Kamala Harris Makes History
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Sen. Kamala Harris was not my first choice to be Joe Biden’s VP pick; it was Rep. Valdez “Val” Demmings of Florida. However, it didn’t take me long to get out of my feelings and get behind the of the very formidable Harris of California. After all, the […]