Author Archives: Sean Yoes

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Last week in this column I wrote, “An Open Love Letter to Black Women.” The woman who filled my heart with more love than any other person on earth, my Beloved Grandmother Beatrice Yoes, transitioned back home to our Heavenly Father, March 31. Indeed it was a life well lived […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Baltimore City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young, thrust into the role of ex-officio mayor of Baltimore, honored a Baltimore Oriole Hall-of-Famer for his first public act. Young re-dedicated the sight of old Memorial Stadium at 33rd Street in East Baltimore as “Frank Robinson Way,” in honor of the Oriole legend. […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com The burgeoning controversy over a children’s book written by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has triggered her resignation from the University of Maryland Medical System’s (UMMS) board of directors, as well as that of two others and raised questions regarding transparency and ethics. Earlier this week, Pugh resigned from the UMMS […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com After a particularly virulent, mania fueled 72 hours of social media rants by Donald John Trump, George Conway, a well-respected…..in mainstream Conservative Republican circles offered a succinct, cogent assessment of Trump’s state of mind via Twitter on March 20. “You.Are.Nuts.” Of course, Conway isn’t just a Constitutional scholar who has […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Sept. 30, 1988, 38-year old Mayor of Baltimore Kurt Schmoke testified before the House Select Committee on Narcotics regarding the impact and efficacy of the so-called “War on Drugs.” Schmoke, then a rising star in the Democratic Party, had only been on the job as mayor of Baltimore for a […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com If Kevin Smith and his daughter Valeria Smith are guilty as charged in the murder of his wife Jacquelyn Smith, it would be one of the most diabolical deeds I’ve ever reported on in 30 years of journalism. Father and daughter are currently in Texas jailed without bond, awaiting extradition […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com The “revelation” that Del. Mary Ann Lisanti from Harford County (who is White), referred to an area in predominantly Black Prince George’s County as a “nigger district,” has taken Annapolis by storm. The mandatory shock and outrage has ensued. Here we go again. According to the Washington Post, Lisanti was […]