By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Wes Unseld was one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and a world champion with the Washington Bullets. But, he was also known as a man of great integrity, who became a vital community leader in his adopted hometown of Baltimore. Unseld died today from pneumonia […]
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Picking Klobuchar Would Be a Mistake For Biden
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com I’m going to make it plain; Joe Biden better not pick Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his VP running mate. If he does he risks alienating Black voters like me. As the debate continues over Biden’s VP pick, a lot of people are uptight about the former vice […]
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OUTRAGEOUS!
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com The plight of Black Americans has been fraught with peril since the arrival of the first Africans 400 years ago to the Jamestown colony in 1619. But, few times since uprisings swept across the urban centers of the nation in April 1968, in the aftermath of the murder […]
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Kevin and Bill Deserved Better
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Kevin Brown is one of my favorite people in this city. He’s a solid guy, brilliant cat, funny as hell. West Baltimore through and through. He loves his city and he loves his people. Brown happens to be gay. And unfortunately, his sexuality is pertinent to this story. […]
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The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery and Black Self Defense
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com I’ll be 55 years old in July, born and raised in West Baltimore and I’ve never owned a gun. I’ve lived in three of the most violent cities in the world: Baltimore, Los Angeles and Detroit and I’ve never even fired a gun. I’ve never wanted to. However, […]
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Mayor’s Race Heats Up in Final Stretch
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com During a mayoral debate broadcast live on Facebook, May 11, six mayoral candidates, former Mayor Sheila Dixon, former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith, former Obama administration official Mary Miller, Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young, former State Prosecutor Thiru Vignarajah and Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott, grappled over some […]
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IMA Backs Miller for Mayor
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com In what some are characterizing as a surprising decision, Baltimore’s Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA), has endorsed Mary Miller for Mayor of Baltimore. “Baltimore is facing a significant loss of revenue now, as well as in the coming years,” said the Rev. Dr. Al Gwynn, pastor of Friendship Baptist […]
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Betty Wright (1953-2020): World Says Goodbye to the `Clean Up Woman’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Some believe death comes in threes. And that belief was affirmed over the weekend with the death of another music legend, Betty Wright on May 10. She was 66. Music legend Betty Wright died on May 10. She was 66. (Photo: Twitter) After the death of Hip Hop […]
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Baltimore Ceasefire Movement: Three Years of `Celebrating Life’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The AFRO speaks to Erricka Bridgeford, the leader of Baltimore Ceasefire as we celebrate the movement’s third anniversary. Three years ago, in the midst of the most murderous era in Baltimore’s history, a half-dozen residents came together to shift the energy in America’s most violent city. And the […]
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Ya’ll Can Go Outside, I’ll Watch
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com As Donald John Trump continues to encourage a burgeoning Civil War around the decision of individual states to re-open in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the infinite “Rona” Facebook memes caught my eye recently. It simply reads, “Me watching Y’all go out there First,” attached […]
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In the Midst of a Pandemic, I Remember Bea Gaddy
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com I had an epiphany the other day about Mother Bea Gaddy as I returned from making a food run in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. In Baltimore, there have been only two “bright spots” that I can glean from the onslaught of COVID-19; one, homicides are down […]
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Baltimore History Reduced to Rubble
“The World Famous Lexington Market,” as it was known is being torn down and centuries of Baltimore history is being reduced to dust. Lexington Market, at 400 W. Lexington St. downtown established in 1782, is the nation’s oldest continuously operating public market and parts of it allegedly are still operating even in the midst of […]