Author Archives: Sean Yoes

To be clear, the fate of Donald John Trump’s diabolical campaign for president of the United States was most likely sealed after his first calamitous presidential debate against Hillary Clinton last month at Hofstra University in New York. That was the debate where it was revealed Trump had repeatedly, “fat shamed,” a former Ms. Universe […]

Swift and stealthy as Indians, the Black men passed from house to house,—not pausing, not hesitating, as their terrible work went on. In one thing they were more humane than Indians or than White men fighting against Indians,—there was no gratuitous outrage beyond the death-blow itself, no insult, no mutilation; but in every house they […]

Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon officially launched her write-in bid to reclaim the chair she once occupied at City Hall on Oct. 11. And although she only has about three weeks before the election on Nov. 8, Dixon seems determined to change the results of April’s primary when she finished a close second to Baltimore […]

Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon will officially announce a write-in campaign for mayor of Baltimore on Oct. 11, according to sources close to the Dixon campaign. Sheila Dixon will announce that she is running a write-in campaign to be mayor of Baltimore City on Oct. 11. (Courtesy photo) The announcement will reportedly be made after […]

Lt. Brian Rice, officers Edward Nero and Garrett Miller, the three White officers charged, but not convicted, in the death of Freddie Gray were given a rousing hero’s welcome at a gala awards ceremony in their honor last month in Washington, D.C. Rice, Nero and Miller were greeted with thunderous applause by nearly a thousand […]

Sean Yoes President Obama perhaps delivered his most impassioned (some might say angry) moment of his historic presidency during the recent Phoenix dinner, his last address as President of the United States to the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in Washington D.C. on Sept. 17. “My name may not be on the ballot, but […]

After avowed White supremacist and Confederate zealot Dylan Roof murdered nine Black parishioners of the Emmanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina during a prayer service on June 17, 2015, the debate over the Confederate flag and other Confederate imagery was re-ignited. Sean Yoes Shortly after the massacre of the Charleston Nine, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie […]

On Sept. 12, Charles Street downtown was the battle line between supporters of Donald Trump, who made an appearance at the National Guard convention at the Baltimore Convention Center, and a very zealous, “never Trump,” group. One scraggly joker on a bike approached the front line of the energized anti-Trump people, yelling, “vote Trump,” and […]

Organizers of a “Maryland for Trump” rally in support of his appearance at the National Guard convention at the Baltimore Convention Center Monday afternoon who called for “over 2,000 people to greet Donald Trump…(and) pack the streets with overwhelming support for the next President of the United States” seemed to fall significantly short of their […]