By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Jazz musician and impresario Todd Barkan has brought world class Jazz back to Baltimore. There was a surreal scene in the swanky Harbor East community over the Memorial Day weekend. Billy Murphy, the legendary defense attorney was holding court outside of a new nightclub with a group of other men, […]
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AFRO Baltimore Editor
Posted inBaltimore News, NEWS
Uncle Ben Plays the Fool
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com When I think of Ben Carson, Donald Trump’s dupe who runs the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), I think of one of the many incendiary and hilarious lines from Chris Rock’s 1996 HBO special, “Bring the Pain.” “I love Black people, but I hate ni—s!” Rock laments […]
Posted inBaltimore News, College, Maryland Sports, NEWS, Sports
Murphy Chooses NJIT
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Jason Kemp Murphy, the big man from St. Frances High School in Baltimore, highly sought by several major division I men’s collegiate basketball programs across the nation, made his college choice recently. Jason Murphy, the former star basketball center at St. Frances Academy High School in Baltimore, is surrounded by […]
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I Am Pro Woman
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com “Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes; our power is wielded by cowards or weaklings; and our honour false in all its point. I am an enemy […]
Posted inBaltimore News, NEWS
The Legend of Mary Bubala
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com People are still talking about Mary Bubala. On May 2, in the wake of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s resignation, the veteran WJZ television news anchor seemed to disparage the succession of Black women — Sheila Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Pugh — who have run the city in recent years. “The question […]
Posted inBaltimore News, Health, NEWS
The Healing Power of the Living Well
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Throughout history, people of color have gathered at the water for healing, cleansing and revitalization. Chapter four of the Book of John speaks specifically of Jesus traveling to a town in Samaria, where he sought relief from his journey at Jacob’s well. There he encountered a Samaritan woman and spoke […]
Posted inBaltimore News, NEWS, Prince George's County News
Freedom In Time For Mother’s Day
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com On Mother’s Day families typically gather and pay homage to the women who do so much for their loved ones. But, there are thousands of women across the nation who won’t be able to spend a traditional Mother’s Day with their families because they are incarcerated. Tragically, many remain locked […]
Posted inBaltimore News, NEWS
Violence Isn’t Unique to Baltimore, Or America
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com A few years ago I had a conversation with a young female political activist from Bogota, Colombia who had risked her life revealing the corruption and systemic use of violence in her native country. Her harrowing story resonated with me deeply, and not just because I am a native son […]
Posted inBaltimore News, BUSINESS, NEWS
Fashion Spa House: `Glam on the Go’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Cynthia Gooding and her husband Ketorus Gooding launched the Fashion Spa House brand on Harford Road in Baltimore in 2016. According to the founders, “Fashion Spa House, Inc., is a lifestyle enhancement company…It focuses on and encourages everyday luxe. It’s Slogan “Glam and Pampered” reflects its mission evident in its […]
Posted inBaltimore Government, Baltimore News, Maryland Government, NEWS, POLITICS, Prince George's County News
AFRO Exclusive: Speaker Adrienne Jones: ‘Only Through Him
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com During the days of Jim Crow in Southern states like Maryland, Black people were often forced to sit in the balcony or gallery of public gathering spaces like moviehouses, theatres, or courtrooms. So, it may have been even more surreal for Del. Adrienne Jones of Baltimore County when she closed […]
Posted inBaltimore News, HBCU, NEWS
AFRO’s Draper to Step Down from Morgan Board
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Morgan State University held its quarterly meeting of the Board of Regents May 7 and one of its longest serving members announced she would not seek reappointment. Dr. Frances M. Draper, the Board’s vice chair and the AFRO’s publisher and CEO, said she would not seek another term. “After much […]
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Bridgeford Talks to AFRO About ‘Sage’ Film
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com The torrent of violence and homicides that has gripped Baltimore since the murder of Freddie Gray while in police custody and the subsequent Uprising of April 2015, has garnered national headlines. But, the reality is the city has grappled with disproportionate murder and mayhem and the stigma attached to it […]
