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 […]
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AFRO Baltimore Editor
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The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The public execution of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February was captured on video; if it hadn’t been, the White men charged with his murder would most likely still be free to this day. On Memorial Day, George Floyd was also publicly executed in Minneapolis at the hands […]
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AFRO Exclusive – Atlas Restaurant Group: ‘I Left After Witnessing Their Racist Behavior’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The heat was on the owner of the glitzy Ouzo Bay restaurant in Harbor East recently, when a video surfaced depicting an overtly racist dress code policy being enforced by restaurant management last weekend. The video shows Marcia Grant and her nine-year-old son Dallas, a Black boy dressed […]
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Shiand Miller, Another Young Black Mother Murdered
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com One of the mantras born of the Baltimore Ceasefire Movement is, “Don’t be numb.” The gentle fiat coined by the group’s co-founder Erricka Bridgeford asks us not to be indifferent to the murder and mayhem that continues to ripple throughout our city. “Don’t be numb,” challenges us to […]
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`Qualified Immunity’ and the Baltimore Police Strike of 1974
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com “Qualified immunity,” is the modern day legal doctrine that has shielded law enforcement officers and other government officials for decades against lawsuits over their conduct. According to National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg, the Supreme Court this week declined to hear cases seeking to reexamine qualified immunity in the […]
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WEAA’s Womack to be Laid to Rest
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Tyra Womack, who was known to listeners of WEAA as Tyra Phillips, will be laid to rest on June 20. She died on June 10. She was 57. “WEAA offers condolences and prayers to the family of our beloved Tyra Phillips (Womack). We are heartbroken about her passing […]
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Mosbys Led on Law Enforcement Reform
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Brother George Floyd was laid to rest by his family in Houston on June 11. But, the massive movement of protest against systemic American racism sparked by his murder in Minneapolis continues to burn bright. Among the issues America is being forced to confront in the rolling aftermath […]
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A First for Baltimore
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott is claiming victory in the race for Baltimore mayor, after the Associated Press declared him the winner on June 9. At AFRO press time Scott led former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon by more than 2,000 votes, 42,528 (29.4%) for Scott, to 40,170 […]
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Baltimore City Comptroller: Henry Upsets Pratt
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt has held the office as the City’s independent fiscal executive since 1994. But, this week her run as Comptroller has come to an end. Pratt has been defeated in her bid for a seventh term by Baltimore City Councilman Bill Henry, who represents […]
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AFRO First to Call It: Nick Mosby Wins City Council President
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimore City Del. Nick Mosby handily defeated his Democratic Primary opponents to take the next step to becoming Baltimore City Council President. Mosby, who currently represents the 40th District of Baltimore City, has captured 40.7 percent of the vote with three of four precincts (the new criteria implemented […]
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Ceasefire’s Wharton: `We’re Under This Cloud of Violence’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com In Baltimore, protests against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been largely peaceful. There have been some scattered incidents of property destruction this week, but the city has not had to endure the type of violence and looting other cities have experienced. No curfew has been […]
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‘We Can’t Breathe’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The murder of George Floyd by a White Minneapolis police officer has sparked uprisings in all 50 states and even around the world. Some of the protests have been violent, the vast majority have not. But, it is not hyperbole to report the United States has not witnessed […]