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 […]
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If Ashburton is An Indicator, Trump is In Trouble
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Analysis: Despite an incessant rain on Election Day, Marylanders continued a vigorous voting pattern after record-breaking early voting and West Baltimore was not exempt from the electoral zeal. According to the State Board of Elections, 16.7 percent of eligible voters cast an early vote in Maryland, which is up from […]
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Jazz Giant Hargrove Dies
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Roy Hargrove, one of the great young lions of the jazz world has died. He was 49. Hargrove, a Grammy-award winning trumpeter died of cardiac arrest according to a report in Rolling Stone magazine. He had recently been admitted into a New York City hospital with kidney issues. Hargrove performed […]
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The White Nationalist President
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com On Oct. 25, Gregory Bush, a 51-year-old White man walked into a Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky and gunned down Maurice Stallard, a 69-year-old Black man and then walked out to the Kroger parking lot and shot Vicki Lee Jones, a 67-year-old Black woman to death. Bush was allegedly […]
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UM Reverses Course, Fires Durkin
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Two weeks after Jordan McNair, a sophomore offensive tackle for the University of Maryland collapsed during a team workout in May, he died after suffering a heatstroke. Nothing can bring back McNair, the 19-year-old beloved son of Tonya Wilson and Marty McNair. But, perhaps yesterday’s decision by the University of […]
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Baltimore Cop In Trouble Again
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A Baltimore police officer who was cleared earlier this month of assault and misconduct charges during a violent arrest last year, is back in trouble. Officer Kevin Battipaglia was caught on bodycam video on Christmas Eve 2017 smashing Darrian Carr, 21, in the face with his baton, breaking his jaw […]
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Kemp Embraces White Nationalist Support, Literally
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, who is locked in a titanic struggle with Stacy Abrams, the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, for Georgia governor’s mansion, has engaged in a divisive campaign, which apparently includes the embrace of the state’s violent, right-wing elements. According to a […]
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Omar Epps Talks to the Baltimore Grassroots about `Fatherhood’
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com I was part of an event in the heart of West Baltimore last weekend that fuels my optimism about my city and my people, despite the murder and mayhem that continue to bombard us. The Practitioner’s Leadership Institute’s (PLI) annual summit took place at the Centers For Urban Families on […]
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Gillum Surges Ahead in Florida
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com With about two weeks to go before the midterm elections on Nov. 6, Andrew Gillum the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida moved out to a double-digit lead over his Republican rival in a recent poll. According to a CNN/SSRS poll, Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, Fla. leads Ron DeSantis, […]
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Hate Crimes On the Rise in Maryland
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The age of Trump has ushered in a wave of vitriol in the American political discourse, perhaps unprecedented in the country’s history. And accompanying the nation’s increasingly poisonous political air is a burgeoning wave of intolerance and a rise in hate crimes. A new report published by the Baltimore Sun […]
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What Are We Going to Do About Violence?
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Like a veteran NFL quarterback, I had to call an audible as I was writing my column this week and I did it with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, to extend the football metaphor. I was set to write about something totally different this week; something brutally political, […]
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SNL Spoofs Baltimore Police
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A series of Baltimore Police Department (BPD) scandals since the death of Freddie Gray in police custody and the subsequent uprising, have garnered national headlines. But, over the weekend the negative national commentary on Baltimore police misconduct reached a new level. Oct. 13, “Saturday Night Live,” the NBC comedy institution […]
