DRO Headquarters. Red Cross employee Bob Otwell prepares blood products including FFP, Whole Blood and Platelets for distribution to nearby hospitals. These blood products were a part of regularly scheduled transports to area hospitals. (Photo by Daniel Cima for The American Red Cross) There’s a critical need for blood donations. Schedule to donate this week […]
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Welcome Nephew Remembers Morgan Protests
By E.R. Shipp, Special to the AFRO As Henry A. Welcome watched a gaggle of officials symbolically tear down a corner of a strip of pitiful storefronts near his home, he could not help remembering his introduction to the once-vibrant Northwood Shopping Center 55 years ago. The Honduran native had come to Baltimore in February 1963 […]
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One Step Closer to Northwood Commons
By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Signs of new life are stirring at Havenwood Road in Northeast Baltimore week. Developers for Northwood Commons, Morgan State University, and the local community celebrated the groundbreaking, Nov. 1, for the long-awaited Northwood Commons Project, in a high energy, white-tent ceremony at the shopping center this week. “This morning […]
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Baltimore Program to Steer ‘Squeegee Kids’ to Other Work
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Young “squeegee kids” who wash car windshields while darting in and out of Baltimore traffic could eventually go from street hustling to conventional employment under a privately-funded program pitched by the city’s mayor. Aiming to solve the decades-old issue, rekindled amid more motorist complaints, Mayor Catherine Pugh forecasts […]
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Arch Social Club Poised to Win Preservation Funding Community Support is Key
As a participant of the 2018 Partners in Preservation campaign, Pennsylvania Avenue Main Street is encouraging the public to Vote Penn Ave (visit votepennave.com) to secure funding to help preserve the Arch Social Club. For nearly a century the Club has stood proudly as a cornerstone for Baltimore’s African-American civic, political and cultural life. Established in 1905 as a meeting hall […]
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Hate Crimes On the Rise in Maryland
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com The age of Trump has ushered in a wave of vitriol in the American political discourse, perhaps unprecedented in the country’s history. And accompanying the nation’s increasingly poisonous political air is a burgeoning wave of intolerance and a rise in hate crimes. A new report published by the Baltimore Sun […]
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Baltimore ID Cards to “Build an Inclusive City,” Says Pugh
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — An identification card designed to help undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable people will soon be issued by Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese. Baltimore’s mayor and Archbishop William Lori on Wednesday announced the launch of the parish identification cards. The IDs will be recognized by city agencies including the police. Mayor […]
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T.J. Smith: ‘This is so far beyond policing’
By Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO A police department already embroiled in controversy suffered another blow Oct. 10, with the resignation of its primary spokesman T.J. Smith. Smith joined the department in 2015 with the arrival of former police commissioner Kevin Davis and was the primary face of an agency that has been rocked by […]
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Confronting the Horrific Legacy of Lynching in Maryland
By AFRO Staff The last recorded lynching in the state of Maryland occurred Oct. 18, 1933, when George Armwood, a 23-year-old laborer was murdered in Princess Anne on the state’s Eastern Shore. The heinous details of Armwood’s murder horrified the state’s Black community and galvanized the burgeoning civil rights community. Armwood was just one of […]
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Interim Commissioner Tuggle Won’t Seek Permanent Position
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Interim Baltimore Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle is not interested in removing the “interim” from his job title. According to a report by the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Solicitor Andre Davis told U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar this morning Tuggle voluntarily withdrew his name from consideration for the permanent […]
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New Doc `Charm City’ Examines Violence in Baltimore
By AFRO Staff As Baltimore grapples with a spike in homicides with more than 30 murders in the month of September, a new documentary focused on the people and groups fighting against the city’s ubiquitous violence, opens this month. “Charm City,” a film that examines the lives of community leaders, government officials members of the […]
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Baltimore Officer Recovering, Suspect Dead After Shooting
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A police involved shooting Sunday night in the community where Det. Sean Suiter was killed left a suspect dead and an officer recovering from a gunshot. According to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) the shooting took place at the Lexington Terrace public housing apartments, in the Harlem Park community in […]