By Svante Myrick It’s been a few weeks since a mess started boiling over in Florida with the rollout of the new AP African American Studies course, and no one […]
Category: Opinion
TBE# 8 – Desantis Has Learned the Wrong Lessons from History. He Wants to Make Sure No One Else Learns the Right Ones.
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building […]
J. Pharoah Doss: ‘Black’ police brutality —nature or nurture?
By J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Nature vs. nurture has been debated for centuries. Police brutality can be seen through a similar lens, i.e., the nature of the […]
The Moore Report: Hard to keep track: too many teenagers are being shot or killed in Baltimore
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Perhaps it was an omen of things to come when 17-year-old D’Asia Garrison became the first murder victim in Baltimore in […]
TBE# 7 – What the Georgia Grand Jury Report on Trump’s Election Interference Doesn’t Reveal is Most Revealing Will Trump Continue to Praise Jurors’ “Patriotism & Courage” After Indictments are Announced?
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “While we don’t know what crimes Trump and his allies will be charged with, the expected indictments will bring desperately […]
Listen to Your Heart: Raising Awareness of a Serious Heart Condition in Black, African American and Afro-Caribbean Communities
By Dr. Jannae White, DNP, CRNP, Nurse Practitioner, Ascension St. Agnes Heart Failure Center We continue to live through a public health tragedy. If there is any hope to be […]
TBE# 6 – President Biden responds to National Urban League priorities in State of the Union Address
By Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Imagine what it’s like to lose a child at the hands of the law. Imagine having to worry whether your […]
Op-ed: Sustain Local Journalism
By Maryland Delegate Joe Vogel Since his election, congressional reporters have been chasing George Santos around Capitol Hill. National reporters have been eager to expose the blatant and bizarre lies […]
Op-ed: The 1619 Project centers us and our story
by Aswad Walker Attempts to block, discredit, distort, colonize and criminalize Black (African, Pan-African) history have been going on since the early 1470s. That’s roughly 550 years worth of eurocentric […]
Letter to the Editor
Submitted by Lynn Pinder and Kimberly Armstrong, Founding MembersBaltimore Green Justice Workers Cooperative Dear Editor: Baltimore’s Mayor Brandon Scott is signing off the City’s underground conduit system to Baltimore Gas […]
Teach Black history – don’t ban it
By Tracey L. Rogers When Republican President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, he called on Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments […]
FDA’s overhaul of cosmetics regulation comes with a loophole allowing cancerous hair relaxers on shelves
By Jonathan Sharp In December 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act bolstered the FDA’s regulatory abilities to address vital safety issues in the widely-unregulated cosmetics industry. The bill’s subtitle, known as […]