By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com “Black Girl Magic” is a phrase that captures the undeniable power of Black women. But, there would be no Black Girl Magic without the Black Mommas who birthed them. Tales from the Sweetheart Gang is a lovely series of love letters celebrating miraculous Black motherhood, from the hearts of daughters […]
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Harrison’s Faith Will Be Tested in Baltimore
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com During my recent phone conversation with Michael Harrison, former superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), he spoke freely about the cesspool he entered as a young officer with the infamously corrupt NOPD. “At that time it was the height of the crack epidemic, police corruption…it was really bad,” […]
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Baltimore’s Nancy D Has Trump’s Number
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com “I’ve watched every State of the Union Address since I graduated high school in 1983. But, not this year,” is what I wrote in this column Feb. 3, 2018. And like Donald Trump’s first State of the Union, I did not watch his pernicious prime time broadcast from the Oval […]
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What About the `Squeegee Kids?’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com On Dec. 28, I made my way down the West Baltimore gauntlet of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., on the rainy last Friday of 2018 and witnessed a familiar scene; men and women in rain soaked clothes armed only with soggy cardboard signs, begging for money. It seems the ranks […]
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`Keep Your Hustle, But Change Your Product’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Author Lamont Carey’s latest book, The Transition: From One Hellhole to Another, continues his searing narrative about the perils of mass incarceration, which impacts millions of Americans on both sides of the wall. Although Carey, a native of Washington, D.C. crafts fictionalized stories about life in prison, they are born […]
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`The Show’ Is a Showcase For Home Grown Talent
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Megan Rochon, an actress and producer is all too familiar with one of Baltimore’s essential rules; if you didn’t graduate from high school here there are certain customary “restrictions” placed on claims of Baltimore citizenship. Although she didn’t graduate from a Baltimore high school, she is fully invested in the […]
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Despite it All, Give Thanks 2018
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com This year, the annual holiday tradition of having Christmas dinner in Northwest Baltimore with my dear friend Lisa Respers-France and her family came a couple of days early. Nevertheless, Ms. Pat (Lisa’s Mom) has not lost an epicurean step; on the contrary, she actually stepped up her dessert game, which […]
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Despite Homicides, Pugh Presses Forward
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com On Dec. 15, Baltimore appeared to register the 300th homicide of 2018, a 64-year old man later identified as Mousa Mohammad Jabar. The victim was the owner of the Stop 1 convenience store on Garrison Blvd. in Northwest Baltimore, which had been the scene of horrible violence in the past. […]
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‘A Wonder in My Soul’ Chronicles Baltimore’s Black Community
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com “A Wonder in My Soul,” a dramatic musical currently at Baltimore Center Stage until Dec. 23, features a small talented cast that delivers powerful performances across the board. But, the play written by Marcus Gardley and directed by Daniel Bryant hits home in our city because it was specifically crafted […]
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Baltimore Reaches 300 Murders For Fourth Year In a Row
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Despite moderate decreases in crime across the board in 2018, for the fourth year in a row Baltimore has reached the 300 homicide mark. Over the weekend (Dec. 15) at about 10:34 p.m., Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers were dispatched to the 2900 block of Garrison Blvd. in Northwest Baltimore […]
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Facebook Offers Hope for `Team Deandre’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com When I entered the gates of the massive Montgomery Park complex on Monroe Street a couple of weeks ago I didn’t know what to expect. I hadn’t been there since a visit to what was then Montgomery Ward (or Monkey Wards as we called it) with my Grandmother in the […]
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Gazette Staff Among Time Magazine Honorees
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Many anticipated Time Magazine would name the current occupant of the White House their 2018 “Person of the Year.” Instead the venerable publication honored the entity Donald Trump has declared the “enemy of the people” with that distinction, including an Annapolis news organization that endured tragedy earlier this year. On […]
