By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com It has been about 300 days since Baltimore Homicide Det. Sean Suiter was gunned down in the Harlem Park community of West Baltimore Nov. 15 and despite last week’s publishing of the findings of a Baltimore Police Department (BPD), independent investigative review board, their report seems to have sparked even […]
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Dozens of Baltimore Schools Forced to Close Due to Extreme Heat
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com It was a short first day of school for children at dozens of Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) and about 10 public schools in Baltimore County never opened, because they have no air conditioning. The tweet from Baltimore County Public Schools announcing school closures due to heat. (Twitter) Temperatures climbed […]
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Baltimore Schools Test Scores Rise, Room for Improvement
By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPSS) students are slowly but surely heading in the right direction with a higher percentage of students passing the current statewide 2017-2018 PARCC tests, compared to previous years. Yet, overall, City school students are still struggling with the lowest percentage of students passing the […]
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Memorabilia at Reginald F. Lewis Museum Seeks to Reclaim Racist Imagery
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover’s “This is America” video debuted May 5. Since then, it has accumulated almost 380 million views on YouTube. The video, opening with Glover’s strained unnatural pose reminiscent of the original caricature of Jim Crow, is planned to serve as a starting and […]
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$10.8MM Awarded to Baltimore 2018 Youth Fund
By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO The inaugural grantees for Baltimore’s Children and Youth Fund have been announced. 84 organizations have been selected to share the Fund’s first allocation of $10.8 million after several months of community-driven review. “After a thorough and transparent process, I am excited for all the grant recipients and for […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, I sure hope your weekend will be as great as mine. I am having a ball on vacation in Florida partying my butt off. My “Boo-Boo” and I drove down to be with my son and his wife, who have rented a villa for us to […]
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Vegan Soulfest Held in Baltimore’s Clifton Park
By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Baltimore’s fifth Annual Vegan Soulfest brought a peaceful weekend filled with messages of health, wellness and holistic living for the city’s Clifton Park community. Artist Naomi Hanaa shares painting at Vegan Soulfest (Photo by Deborah Bailey) “We felt we needed to bring something positive on this level devoted to […]
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Speak to My Heart Ministries Prepares For Community Day
By Joi Thomas, Special to the AFRO Many Baltimore communities are in need of additional resources to help make life better. Speak to My Heart Ministries, founded in 2007, recognizes this need and every year holds a Community Day to show the neighbors how much they mean to the church. This year’s community day is August […]
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Another Baltimore Cop Out of Control…When Will It End?
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, Special to the AFRO A Baltimore police officer caught on cellphone video repeatedly punching an unarmed man is under indictment for felony assault by a Baltimore Grand Jury and turned himself in to authorities. The officer, identified as Arthur Williams, is facing charges of first degree and second-degree assault. He […]
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Baltimore After Freddie Gray, Official Book Signing
By AFRO Staff The official book signing for Baltimore After Freddie Gray: Real Stories From One of America’s Great Imperiled Cities, a compilation of 50 commentaries from the AFRO’s “Race and Politics” column from 2015 to 2018, written by Baltimore AFRO Editor Sean Yoes, will take place Aug. 16 at historic Union Baptist Church on […]
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Youth Fund Grant Winners Close to Being Named
By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO A mandate spawned by the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent uprising in April 2015, is at the threshold of being delivered this month. Reviewers have just completed sifting through 427 applications, representing more than $75 million in funding requests from the City of Baltimore’s recently created Baltimore […]
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What Are They Doing To Baltimore’s Parks?
By John Schmid, Special to the AFRO Hanlon Park looks like it was hit with a bomb. A great mound of dark brown earth sits in the park’s center. Jutting out of the heap are the bleaching roots of barely buried stumps. It’s the aftermath of what is left of one of a shrinking number of […]