Las Vegas was the sight of last night’s third and final presidential debate and Donald Trump needed a knockout victory over Hillary Clinton to somehow save his unraveling campaign with less than 20 days before Nov. 8. He didn’t get it. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks toward the audience as Republican presidential nominee Donald […]
Author Archives: Sean Yoes
AFRO Baltimore Editor
Trump’s Undermining of America
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 […]
‘Birth of a Nation’ Should Be Required Viewing for BCPS
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 […]
Sheila Dixon: “I’m Passionate About Change in this City”
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 […]
In Debate Debacle, Black America, Baltimore Just Throw Away Lines
Donald Trump’s 2005 comments about him having the ability to kiss and grope women’s genitals with impunity were ubiquitous last night on the stage at Washington University in St. Louis, sight of the second presidential debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton. There seemed to be room for little else, including the plight of Black America. […]
Dixon to Launch Write-In Campaign for Mayor
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 […]
White Officers in Freddie Gray Case Comforted by Right Wing Group
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 […]
Malveaux on President Obama and Black America
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 […]
Confederate Monuments are Shrines to White Supremacy
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 […]
Trump Support in Some Parts of Md. is Insidious
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 […]
Trump Support Comes Up Short in Baltimore
Organizers of a “Maryland for Trump” rally in support of his appearance at the National Guard convention at the Baltimore Convention Center, Sept. 12, 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 […]
Trump Support Comes Up Short in Baltimore
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 […]

