By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com More allegations of police misconduct are being aimed again at the beleaguered Baltimore Police Department (BPD). The latest charges are being leveled by Baltimore’s Civilian Review Board (CRB) in reference to the case of Keith Davis, Jr. This week, the CRB said Davis was wrongfully charged after being shot by […]
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These are the African Americans Running in Maryland
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com There has never been a Black man or woman representing Maryland in the United States Senate. There are four men and women, Republican and Democrat, who want to change that historical narrative in our state. Clockwise from left: Antonio “Tony” Campbell, Nnabu Eze, Rikki Vaughn, Debbie “Rica” Wilson. (Courtesy Photos) […]
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Armah Takes Final Baltimore Bow With `Soul’
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com I had the opportunity recently, along with a handful of other reporters, to sit in on one of the first rehearsals for the Center Stage production of “SOUL The Stax Musical,” the final play of the 2017/2018 season. Kwame Kwei-Armah, the former artistic director of Center Stage, is back to […]
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Fake Black Lives Matter Facebook Page Run By Who Now?
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Even as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a Senate committee on data privacy, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, multiple media sources are reporting that the biggest Facebook page for Black Lives Matter was fake and had been monetized by a White man. CNN reports […]
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Del. Anderson Status Unclear Following Baltimore Delegation Vote
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com This is the last day of the Maryland General Assembly 2018 legislative session, otherwise known as sine die. And several legislative matters of interest to the Black community in particular have yet to be resolved. That includes the status of Del. Curt Anderson (D-43). The veteran legislator, who originally entered […]
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Del. Curt Anderson Resigns as Baltimore Chair Amid Swirl of Allegations
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Why is veteran Baltimore City Del. Curt Anderson (D-43) stepping down as chair of the Baltimore delegation to the Maryland House of Delegates, a position he has held for 12 years? Anderson said in a statement on April 4, that a new chair will be voted on during the group’s […]
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Using City Money to Put Baltimore’s Youth First
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The final community design sessions, organized to help craft the framework for the distribution of the $12 million Baltimore Children and Youth Fund, took place this week. The sixth and final session was at Patterson High School in South Baltimore. I attended the fifth session April 2, at Lakeland Elementary/Middle […]
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Gilman Senior Accepted to Every Ivy League School
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Anxiety is pervasive in the hearts and minds of millions of high school seniors across the nation, as college acceptance and rejection letters are being mailed out, carrying the hopes and heartbreak of many college hopefuls. However, one Maryland high school senior is floating on cloud nine right now after […]
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Beyoncé to Sanaa: Stop Biting
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Speculation had swirled for days around the question: Who bit Beyoncé? Although maybe the question should have been, how could someone get close enough to give Queen Bey an unwanted chomping? But, the answer to who, according to several media sources is actress Sanaa Lathan. Bitegate began with a revelation from […]
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Black Victim of St. Mary’s School Shooting Called 911
By Sean Yoes Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Desmond Barnes, one of the victims of the Great Mills High School shooting in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, called 911 after he was shot in the right thigh. “I was just shot at my school,” Barnes, 14, told the 911 operator from inside a classroom at the high […]
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BGF Member Gets More Than 30 Years for Killing Witness
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A member of a notorious Baltimore street gang was sentenced to more than three decades in prison for criminal activity, including the 2013 murder of a witness in another case. Wesley Jamal Brown, 25, was sentenced to 31 and a half years in prison, plus five years of supervised release […]
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Here Are the African Americans Running for Gov. and Lt. Gov.
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor syoes@afro.com Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and his running mate, Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford are running to retain the Governor’s mansion, unopposed by their Republican Party. However, they will be challenged by Democratic opponents and others in the General Election in November. Several Democrats of color will grapple through the primary […]