By MICHAEL CHARLES, Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Maryland Senate began hearings Wednesday on a bill to remove some of the last blocks to unfettered gaming statewide — a plan that would ask voters to legalize online gaming for sponsors paying a hefty licensing fee. SB 0267 was heard Wednesday. It is sponsored […]
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Visiting a Maryland union hall, Biden touts economic initiatives
By IAN DECKER and YESENIA MONTENEGRO, Capital News Service LANHAM, Md. – President Joe Biden on Wednesday highlighted several key points of his economic plan — improving infrastructure, funding accessible health care, emphasizing American manufacturing and lowering the deficit — during a speech to friendly union workers. “We got more work to do,” Biden said […]
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Carolyn E. Fugett, mother of Billion-Dollar Dealmaker Reginald F. Lewis dies
Carolyn Edith Cooper Fugett, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and Matriarch to the Community at Large who had a special way of making everyone feel they were her favorite, departed this world of natural causes on February 7, 2023 at the age of 97. A lifelong resident of Maryland, Carolyn successfully balanced the […]
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Officials respond to report stating 23 Baltimore City Public Schools have no students proficient in math
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) representatives are responding to outrage over the disclosure that 23 City Schools have zero students deemed proficient in mathematics. The Statewide Spring 2022 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) testing results show that while City Schools students returned to “pre-pandemic levels of proficiency” […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
NCBCP Mourns the Passing of Thomas Dortch
NCBCP recognizes the exceptional life of Mr. Thomas W. Dortch, Jr., Father, Husband, Son, Leader, Mentor, Businessman, Philanthropist, Advocate, Beloved Member of the Community and National Treasure. Tommy Lived a Unique and Extraordinary Life Whose Contributions Across America Impacted Countless People, Focused on Lifting Black Americans and Other Marginalized People, Communities, HBCUs and Other Institutions […]
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AFRO Charities receives $2.25 million federal investment to renovate Upton Mansion
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com On Feb. 13 Frances “Toni” Draper, CEO and publisher of the AFRO American Newspapers, and Savannah Wood, executive director of the AFRO Charities, accepted a $2.25 million in federal funds earmarked for community project funding. “How fitting is it that after 130 years, AFRO Charities is redeveloping this […]
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Children with chronic disability deserve affordable, quality healthcare
By Anissa Durham, Word In Black No one is coming to save them. It should be no surprise families with chronically ill children are behind on rent. They are behind on bills. After all, the United States is the only wealthy nation without guaranteed universal health coverage. Our system simply isn’t set up to save […]
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Are we finally getting after-school programs right?
By Maya Pottiger, Word In Black There’s some good education news: As students, parents, and educators work to make up for setbacks caused by virtual learning and the COVID-19 pandemic, extra academic help is getting to students who need it More than half — 56 percent— of public schools in the United States reported offering […]
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Updates that may affect your tax season
By Donald Williams, Special to the AFRO It is officially tax season, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which declared that this year’s tax season started on Monday, Jan. 23. It’s that special time of year when people collect their documents to either rush over to their tax preparer or enter in themselves so […]
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Dr. George Fraser to Convene Black Business Sessions at Global Conference
Dr. George Fraser, internationally acclaimed author of the classic work Success Runs in Our Race has once again tasked convening and facilitating the Issue Area on Socially Responsible Black Business/Economic Development at the State of the Black World Conference April 19-23, 2023, in Baltimore, Maryland. The global Conference is being convened by the Institute of […]
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HBCU All-Star Battle of the Bands takes place in Atlanta
On Feb. 4, marching bands from some of the country’s top historically Black colleges convened in Atlanta for the HBCU All-Star Battle of the Bands. A total of six college-level marching bands participated in the event, along with Pebblebrook and Westlake High Schools, local to the Atlanta area. HBCU bands in attendance included Alabama State […]
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Rumor related to photo taken of bloody Tyre Nichols proven true, Black frat expels three officers involved in deadly attack
By AFRO Staff Tennessee officials confirmed part of a devastating rumor regarding the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols to be true this week. Shortly after the Jan. 10 death, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were set ablaze with whispers that Nichols had been romantically involved with the mother of a child belonging to one of the […]