By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com I spent most of my birthday (July 1) weekend at a “no tech Yoga retreat” at the Bar-T Mountainside Summer Camp, in Urbana, Maryland. For […]
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Waters Claps Back at Attacks From the Right and Left
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Maxine Waters (D-CA.), the seemingly indomitable political firebrand who represents large swaths of South Central Los Angeles, is now taking fire politically from the Left, […]
NAACP Report Finds Black Girls in Baltimore Schools Punished Excessively
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com The narrative of Black boys being punished more severely and more frequently than their White counterparts in public schools for the same offenses has become […]
Mosby Rolls to Re-Election, But Faces Challenges Ahead
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby withstood the aggressive charge of two opponents in a highly contentious battle to win re-election by more than 20 […]
‘If They’re Putting Babies in Cages, What Will They Do To Us?’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Last week when reports of the Trump administration’s sanctioned separation of undocumented immigrant children from their parents first erupted nationally, I had a conversation via […]
Veteran Baltimore Senators Fall to Insurgent Challengers
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Three incumbent Baltimore City Senators, including two of the most powerful in the Senate, were defeated in the Democratic primary June 26, signaling for many […]
Nooses Again Discovered at Site of Maryland Construction Company
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A report of nooses being used to intimidate Black employees of a construction site in San Francisco is linked to a Maryland construction company. It’s […]
Children of Undocumented Immigrants Allegedly Sent to Maryland
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Dozens of children of undocumented families have been sent to Maryland, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun, since Donald Trump enacted his so-called […]
Will Baker or Jealous Be Able to Defeat Hogan?
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com With less than a week before the Democratic primary on June 26, there are still eight candidates left who are vying for the nomination and […]
Funeral For UM Football Player McNair Wednesday
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The viewing for Jordan McNair, whose promising collegiate football career at the University of Maryland was cut short when he collapsed suddenly during practice and […]
Here’s What Obama’s Reading Lately
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Donald Trump, the current resident of the White House is allegedly loathe to read anything; the polar opposite of his predecessor Barack Obama. Recently, President […]
Disgraced Ex-Detroit Mayor Seeks Trump Pardon
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor who began his political career with so much promise, has spent the last seven years incarcerated, on a 28-year-sentence […]