By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Less than two months after a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officer was terminated following a videotaped beating of a city resident, another BPD officer has been fired after he was discovered drunk while on duty. According to BPD Chief Spokesperson T.J. Smith, on Oct. 2, at approximately 1:40 p.m., Southern […]
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White Man’s Burden
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com I think I can speak for millions of Americans when I say I am officially sick and tired of Brett Kavanaugh; he has single handedly reinvigorated the apocryphal “little white lie,” conveniently dispersing them throughout last week’s volcanic testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee. I watched along with more than […]
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Seven Gunned Down Over the Weekend
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com After decreases in violent crime earlier in 2018, gun violence has seemed to increase in recent months and this past weekend was one of the deadliest of the year so far. According to a report in the Baltimore Sun, seven people were killed and four others injured in nine shootings […]
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Cosby Goes Out Like a Tragic Clown
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The long, tortuous arc of the Bill Cosby saga, from entertainment icon, to “America’s dad,” to Black American pariah, to a “sexually violent predator,” has ended with a three to 10 year prison sentence (a possible death sentence) for the infirm, legally blind, 81-year old. What would have seemed implausible […]
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Baltimore Officer Recovering, Suspect Dead After Shooting
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A police involved shooting Sunday night in the community where Det. Sean Suiter was killed left a suspect dead and an officer recovering from a gunshot. According to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) the shooting took place at the Lexington Terrace public housing apartments, in the Harlem Park community in […]
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Deputy Housing Director’s Son, 210th Homicide Victim
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor This past week has been, arguably, the deadliest of the year, with 10 homicides in the last seven days as of Sept. 19, including the slaying of the son of a longtime Baltimore public servant. According to the Baltimore Police Department, 40-year-old Reginald Scriber Jr., of the 100 block of […]
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Four Shot Overnight in Baltimore, Three in Less Than an Hour
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Over the last week, 10 people have been gunned down on Baltimore streets and that violent trend continued Wednesday night with three more non-fatal shootings in less than an hour, as well as a shooting death according to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD). WJZ 13 reports that the first shooting […]
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U. of Maryland Slammed For ‘Safe Spaces’ For White Students
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The University of Maryland (UMD), is being hit with a social media backlash after the school’s decision to provide a “safe space” for White students to talk about issues of race. According to a report by WUSA9-TV (a CBS affiliate), the school posted fliers online an around the College Park […]
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Trial For `Trained To Go’ Gang Begins
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The federal murder and racketeering trial for eight men who allegedly terrorized the Sandtown-Winchester community of West Baltimore as far back as 2010 began today. The group of drug dealers and assassins, who are known as “Trained To Go,” murdered 10 people between 2010 and 2016, according to federal prosecutors. […]
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A President Without a Country
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The funerals for two towering American icons, The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin and American hero Arizona Sen. John McCain, happened within days of each other. Dignitaries from around the globe paid homage (and RESPECT) to Franklin and McCain. A pantheon of entertainment legends and political luminaries, including former President […]
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Harris Grills Kavanaugh Over Mueller Investigation
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com While the back to back bombshells from Bob Woodward’s new book and an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times, allegedly from a Trump White House senior official, triggered a “volcanic” reaction by the 45th president, Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court sparred with a possible 2020 Democratic presidential contender. […]
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Suiter Report Just Makes Things Worse
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com It has been about 300 days since Baltimore Homicide Det. Sean Suiter was gunned down in the Harlem Park community of West Baltimore Nov. 15 and despite last week’s publishing of the findings of a Baltimore Police Department (BPD), independent investigative review board, their report seems to have sparked even […]