Nobody should be surprised that the new head of the Department of Justice, former Alabama Senator (and one of Donald Trump’s most rabid supporters during his ascension to the White House), Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, recently began the process of attempting to dismantle the DOJ consent decree with Baltimore. Sean Yoes (Courtesy Photo) According to the […]
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Rising Above Lowered Expectations
When I first became a professional journalist with the AFRO back in 1989, the first story I ever wrote was about the Baltimore City Public Schools and the superintendent (that’s what they were called back then) at the time Richard Hunter. “Hunter Bombshell Still Seething,” was the headline of the front page story, which unpacked […]
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Firebombing Recalls One of City’s Darkest Chapters
According to Baltimore City Police, Antonio T. Wright, 26, turned himself in on March 20 for a heinous, retaliatory fire bombing, which took the lives of two teenagers, Shi-heem Sholto, 19, and Tyrone James, 17, and injured six others. A four-year old girl was among the injured. However, some ambiguous details connected to Wright’s arrest […]
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How Should Black People Discipline Their Children?
Most Black people of a certain age (I’m thinking 40 and over) can tell vivid stories about the most severe beating (or beatings) they received as children at the hands of parents or other family members, in the name of “discipline.” The stories are often wrapped in the nostalgia of the, “good ol’ days,” when […]
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All Options Should Be on the Table for the BCPD
What the hell are we going to do about the Baltimore City Police Department? Seriously. Many of the sordid details of how seven Baltimore City police officers, five Black, two White (all living outside of Baltimore City), allegedly operated a criminal enterprise beneath the ubiquitous blue covering of the BCPD, have been made public since […]
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Attack on April Ryan Was an Attack on the Black Press
April Ryan, a Baltimore native and Morgan State University alum, has been a White House correspondent since 1997 (she is currently with American Urban Radio Networks). She has reported on every president since, and Donald Trump is the fourth. And it is the Trump White House that put Ryan in an incredibly unenviable position for […]
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Setting an Agenda for Trump and HBCUs
In the midst of what most have characterized as a chaotic (to be charitable) first month of the Trump presidency (failed Muslim ban, millions protesting against Trump globally, General Flynn ousted as National Security Adviser, alternative facts, and of course the burgeoning Russia scandal), a potentially fascinating meeting was allegedly proposed; Trump sitting down with […]
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Baldwin Resonates Now More Than Ever
“The story of the Negro in America, is the story of America and it is not a pretty story,” James Baldwin once wrote. Thirty years since his death in 1987, there have been just a few times in our country’s history the story has been uglier than the narrative of Trump’s America. I saw a […]
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Trump Reaching Out to HBCUs?
On the first day of Black History Month, Donald Trump assembled a group of, “the Blacks,” (Trump’s enduring description of Black people), for a BHM breakfast get together. The gathering of Trump sycophants and supporters included, HUD Secretary (!) Dr. Ben Carson (who Trump once likened to a pedophile), right-wing pundit Armstrong “I’m honored to […]
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Trump Travel Ban Hits Home at Morgan
Donald Trump’s so-called, “Muslim ban,” directly impacting seven countries (more than 218 million people and all refugees) and the general flow of immigration to the United States has triggered fear, loathing and protests globally. Subsequently, we learned three key members of the Trump inner circle; Defense Secretary James Mattis, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and […]
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Resisting Trump is Patriotic
Apparently, Donald John Trump is still obsessed with size. In 1988, Graydon Carter, then the editor of Spy magazine and currently Vanity Fair’s editor, anointed Trump a, “short-fingered vulgarian.” Trump has been tripping over size ever since (Remember his pathetic exchange with “little” Marco Rubio during the Republican primaries?). Sean Yoes (Courtesy Photo) In the days leading […]
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The Legacy of President Barack Obama
When Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office to become the 44th President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009, perhaps the most durable symbolic barrier to the full citizenship of Black Americans was shattered. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive […]