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 2023, bringing in a new year with another horribly sad statistic. In the week of February 12-18 of this very year there were seven teenagers […]
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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 needed accountability and demonstrate that no one – not even the former president – is above the law.” — Brie Sparkman, Citizens for Responsibility and […]
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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 drawn from so much hardship and loss, it’s that COVID-19 has reignited new conversations about disease awareness and the inequality that still exists in our […]
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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 son or daughter will come home from walking down the street or playing in the park or just driving their car … Imagine having to […]
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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 about his life story, career, education, animal charity, and campaign funds. The story has been dominating national headlines, but it was a local journalist, Maureen […]
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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 whitewashing; or as folk in the halls of academia call it, “epistemic violence.” Epistemic violence is not physical violence, like busting somebody upside the head. […]
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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 Electric (BGE). The conduit system is an intricate network of electrical, cable/WIFI, and phone wires. I and some other activists believe this is a bad […]
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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 of Black Americans.” He also acknowledged that Black Americans had shown “courage and perseverance” when our country had failed to live up to its own […]
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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 the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA), represents the first significant reform targeting cosmetic products since 1938. While MoCRA is regarded as a belated, yet […]
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Amplifying voices in education: ‘Parents can change their children’s academic trajectory’
By Kisha Clark If you’re like me, you gasped when you first saw D.C.’s PARCC, or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, scores this past fall. You may have even cried or became upset. I experienced all those emotions in less than five minutes. Then, I quickly shifted to thinking about […]
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Op-ed: Community Invited to Engage with Researchers to Overcome Disparities in Kidney Disease and Transplantation
By Krista Lentine and Deryl Cunningham Long overdue, the medical community increasingly is turning its attention toward understanding and addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. We – a physician and a patient – write to shed light on kidney disease, an area where racially based health disparities are stark and where more research is needed […]
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Letter to the Editor: All Lives Matter
Submitted by Wayne E. Williams Dear Editor: My good friend of social media who resides in Chicago refers to himself as: Just Another BLUES MAN. Dig this, he is not from Memphis either. Memphis is considered to be an historic southern American city. Traditionally it is the home of American Blues and BBQ. It is […]
