By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com On March 10, 2016, Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23, was driving around Baltimore County with a cardboard license plate which allegedly read: “Any government official who compromises this pursuit of happiness and right to travel, will be held criminally responsible and fined, as this is a natural right and […]
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NFAC: `We Don’t Come to Sing…’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com A little after midnight on March 13, members of the Louisville Police Department arrived at the apartment of Breonna Taylor as she slept allegedly intent on apprehending a man they believed was a drug dealer. But, they were at the wrong apartment. Nevertheless, police proceeded to smash down […]
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Memorial Service Scheduled for George Mitchell
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com A public viewing and memorial service for Park Heights community leader and businessman George Mitchell have been scheduled. The public viewing for Mitchell, who was the founder of the Langston Hughes Community Business Resource Center will be August 1, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at March Funeral Home […]
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Wife Mourns Loss of Her Beloved `Bear’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com On July 28, Calvin Boyd was killed while doing what he loved to do the most; work on automobiles. Boyd, 46, known as “Bear” to the ones that loved him was working on cars in the parking lot of the Advanced Auto Parts store in the 4600 block […]
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AFRO Exclusive: `We’re Changing the Department From the Inside Out’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com “Without a doubt I believe in this city, without a doubt. This is my birthright. This city is my birthright,” said a woman we are calling “Etheldora” to protect her identity. The reason the AFRO is protecting her identity is because she has witnessed two murders and a […]
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The Honorable John Robert Lewis
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The word “icon” has been used for many years to describe Rep. John Lewis, known as “the conscience of the Congress,” who represented Georgia’s 5th District from 1987 until his death on July 17, at age 80. And in the wake of his death the honorific of icon […]
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Despite Reform Efforts, BPD Corruption Persists
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The following was published in the New Orleans Advocate, October 15, 2014, recounting the murder of a woman ordered by a member of the New Orleans Police Department in 1994: “Two decades ago, amid one of the darkest chapters in the city’s history, a flurry of scandals brought […]
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Park Heights Community Leader George Mitchell Dies
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com George Mitchell, an omnipresent figure in the Park Heights community of Northwest Baltimore died July 14, due to complications from a surgery. He was 66. Mitchell, who operated the Langston Hughes Community, Business and Resource Center at 5011 Arbutus Ave., in lower Park Heights, allegedly entered the hospital […]
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Exclusive: Commissioner Harrison Talks to the AFRO: `We Have Been Asked to Be All Things to All People’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison spoke exclusively to the AFRO about budget cuts to his department that went into effect on July 1, and the role of law enforcement in Baltimore. Part one of two. The American experience is knit together by a series of transcendent moments many […]
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Race and Politics: With Trump, The Worst is Yet to Come
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com It is the consensus of many historians, veteran political observers and everyday people that Donald John Trump is the worst president in the history of the United States. However, the one area where he excels far beyond his 44 predecessors (beyond his outmatched prowess at mendacity) is his […]
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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19
The AFRO spoke with F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Soringboard Community Services, formerly known as Family and Children Services of Central Maryland. By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Black Americans and other people of color continue to suffer more in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most deadly global pandemics […]
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Klan Cops and `The Wilmington Massacre’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com In Wilmington, N.C. recently it was revealed some White members of the Wilmington Police Department are just itching for America’s mythical race war — much ballyhooed by some for decades — to begin. “We are just going to go out and just start slaughtering them f—ing ni—-s,” said […]