Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com It’s been a little over a week since Amanda Gorman captivated us all at United States Capitol with her words during the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Madame Vice President Kamala Harris and became an international household name in the process. Her poem, “The Hill […]
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AFRO Baltimore Editor
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AFRO employee discovers dead body in Druid Hill Park
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com In a city that has endured more than 300 homicides a year since 2015, it is easy for people to become numb to the murder and mayhem that is all around us. Perhaps it’s easier for many to just keep their heads down and keep it moving. AFRO […]
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Navasha Daya’s `Liberation Song’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com “I see the Blackness of my people. You know they’re Calling for freedom everywhere I’ve seen the Blackness of my people, and all you’ve got to do Brothers and Sisters, reach out your hands. We’re gonna Take you there Black stands for liberation…” -Gil Scott-Heron, “The Liberation Song” […]
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Baltimore mourns Dante `Tater’ Barksdale
Dante “Tater” Barksdale, the leader of Safe Streets Baltimore, a violence prevention program died from a gunshot wound to the head on Jan. 17 in Southeast Baltimore. His death has devastated many in the community he served, as well as his fellow warriors in the battle against murder and mayhem. (AP Photo/PATRICK-SEMANSKY ) By Sean […]
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Attorney Brown comes through, again
Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson is the unquestioned authority on the history of Maryland’s Black lawyers. And he chronicled part of that history in his seminal biography of Thurgood Marshall’s early years, Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. In it […]
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President Biden hits the ground running
President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Joseph R. Biden Jr., sworn in on Jan. 20 as the 46th President of the United States of America, pledged to get to […]
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Mike Miller, longtime Senate President Dead at 78
In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 file photo, Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller speaks with members of the news media after listening to Gov. Larry Hogan deliver his annual State of the State address to a joint session of the legislature in Annapolis, Md. Former Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller has […]
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Benjamin Mays: intellectual father of the movement
Dr. J. F. Drake, president of Alabama A&M College, left, Dr. W. S. Davis, president of Tennessee State University, Thurgood Marshall, center, NAACP legal counselor and Dr. Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse College. (Photo by Clanton III) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Benjamin Mays, who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described as his […]
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Ralph Abernathy: From Montgomery to Memphis
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, led some 5,000 people on a “thank you” march to the White House to express joy at the impending signing of the voting bill. From left, Bishop Paul Moore, Mrs. Walter Fauntroy, Rev. Fauntroy, Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy. By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Ralph David Abernathy, the […]
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Rev. Howard Thurman: `the preacher’s preacher’
Howard Thurman, one of the most important Black theological leaders of the 20th Century, significantly influenced the spiritual and civil rights evolution of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo courtesy of Morehouse College National Alumni Association) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Many argue the Black American struggle for freedom and justice in the […]
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The evolution of `Daddy King’ from `Michael’ to `Martin’
Martin Luther King Sr., an influential minister and civil rights leader in his own right, was known as Michael King before he changed his name and the name of his oldest son to Martin Luther King in 1934. (Photo courtesy of Youtube/Twitter) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com As we all attempt to fully […]
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`My name is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer!’
Fannie Lou Hamer delivers her historic speech before the Credentials Committee during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (AFRO Archive Photo) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com My name is Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and I live at 6-2-6, East Lafayette Street, Ruleville, Mississippi, Sunflower County, the home of Senator […]