Category: Baltimore Community

By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Nathaniel McFadden, State Senator of Baltimore’s 45th District, Senate President Pro Tem and chair of Baltimore’s senate delegation leaves his post this year, having played a critical role in providing representation and using every method in his legislative toolkit to ensure his district’s needs were heard in Annapolis. First […]

By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Henrietta Lacks’ cells are credited with eradicating polio, creating the field of virology and advancing breakthrough treatments in HIV and cancer.  The cells from Lacks, the late housewife from the Turner Station community in Baltimore County, have traveled to outer space and are being studied now in research labs […]

By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO (Updated July 19) – Taylor Hayes, the 7-year-old shot in Southwest Baltimore, died Thursday morning, according to the Baltimore Police Department. “Sad Update: Seven-year-old, Taylor Hayes passed away this morning. She was shot while sitting in a vehicle a couple of weeks ago,” T.J. Smith, Baltimore Police Department spokesman, tweeted. Sad Update: […]

By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Less than six months after USA Today declared Baltimore “the nation’s most dangerous city,” the newspaper posted another front page story July 12 about the city’s pervasive violence. But, this article links Baltimore’s ongoing struggle with murder and mayhem with the death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent uprising of […]

By Deborah Bailey, Special to the AFRO Verletta White will continue to serve public school children in the Baltimore County community where she was born and raised for at least another year. The County school board voted this week on a contract to continue White’s term as interim superintendent for the 2018-2019 school year. “After a […]