Author Archives: Sean Yoes

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com My plan this week was to write an objective news story about the celebration over the weekend of the life and storied career of Dr. Anne O. Emery, the venerated Baltimore educator. A native of Thomasville, Ala., Dr. Emery moved to Baltimore with Vallen L. Emery Sr., her beloved late […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com The opening of the romantic drama Stay, ripples with the energy of Tokyo street life. But, the length of the critically acclaimed film pulsates with an eclectic soundtrack with a heavy dose of House Music. The House genre has been popular in Japan for many years, so the infusion of […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com ‘Baltimore is brutal.’ That was the succinct, cogent analysis of the state of our city by one of my media colleagues, following the official introduction of Ft. Worth, Texas Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald by Mayor Catherine Pugh. After the press conference at City Hall on Nov. 26, my fellow journalist […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com I spent some time over the weekend with one of my favorite people in the activist community, Nneka Nnamdi, founder of Fight Blight Bmore. Nnamdi is brilliant and tough as nails; she has invested her considerable prowess into the pervasive and soul killing issue of blight in our city, which […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com During a performance of “Fiddler on the Roof” by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Nov. 14, an anti-Semitic outburst reminded many in attendance of an atmosphere of intolerance, which seems pervasive in America. According to the Associated Press, a man in the balcony of the Hippodrome Theatre in downtown Baltimore […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Last week, when CNN’s Jim Acosta engaged in perhaps his most volatile exchange (of many) with Donald Trump, he was accused of manhandling a White House intern (fake news), and had his press credentials yanked by the Trump administration (CNN is suing the White House to have Acosta reinstated). During […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Five of the six officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray in April 2015 attempted to sue Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby for malicious prosecution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Mosby has prosecutorial immunity in that lawsuit. On Nov. 13, the High Court upheld a lower court ruling […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A Baltimore police officer charged with planting drugs at a crime scene has been found guilty, according to sources within the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office. The guilty verdict for Officer Richard Pinheiro Jr. came this afternoon and he was given a six-month suspended sentence. Pinheiro had pled not guilty […]

By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Unfortunately, I need to start with the bad news from the historic midterms of 2018. Three rising superstars of the Democratic Party all lost or are losing (at press time) in the three highest profile races of the midterms; Stacey Abrams in her bid for governor of Georgia, Beto […]