By AFRO Staff Baltimore Homecoming, a nonprofit organization of accomplished natives from around the world that return every year to inspire the city’s next generation, announced the launch of a virtual series called “Baltimore Conversations.” The series is designed to inform, engage and entertain Baltimoreans near and far during these uncertain times. The first conversation […]
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Loving, Losing Amid COVID-19
By Beverly Richards Special to the AFRO On April 8, as the sky was making its usual path for the sun, it was also clearing a pathway for Chianti Y. Jackson Harpool, who succumbed to COVID-19 that morning. She was known as the one with the “bright smile.” In fact, her husband, Adrian Harpool said […]
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‘Order of the Wheel,’ Quarantine Edition
By AFRO Staff Waterfront Partnership’s Healthy Harbor Initiative announced its third pledge recruitment for “Order of the Wheel,” a not-so-secret society with the goal of spreading grassroots environmental action, on April 13. This year, each recruitment challenge was created with social distancing and families in mind. The Healthy Harbor initiative provides a roadmap for cleaning […]
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Randallstown Nurse Dies of COVID-19
Quen Agbor Ako, a nurse working in Randallstown in Baltimore County has succumbed to COVID-19. According to a report by the Baltimore Brew, Ako worked at the FutureCare nursing home on Old Court Road. She allegedly died last week. According to the Brew, the Lochearn location of FutureCare has the largest outbreak of COVID-19 of any nursing home […]
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Not the AFRO’s First Time
Compiled by AFRO Staff April 12 was the first time in our recent memory that churches were closed throughout the land on Easter Sunday. Our first time, but not the AFRO’s. A search through the AFRO Archives yielded short pieces from 1918 when the land was beset by a similarly debilitating flu. Take a look […]
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Hair, Nails & Public Health: Sacrifice or Satisfaction?
By Reginald Allen II Special to AFRO Ladies, are your hair, skin, and nail beauty routines a need or a luxury? Taylor Shaw, an apprentice esthetician and freshman psychology major from Baltimore, believes customers can wait a while in order to support the cause at hand, slowing the spread of COVID-19. The Morgan State University […]
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Dear AFRO Subscribers and Supporters,
These past few weeks have been the most challenging times we’ve experienced in our 127 year history. Like so many of you, the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc in our professional and personal lives. Our entire team is working from kitchen tables, bedrooms (and wherever we can find space), while home schooling, caring for at-risk […]
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Black Baltimore is Sick (Literally) of Trump
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimoreans are generally very resilient people. However, Black Baltimoreans exhibit resiliency on steroids. That’s my thesis and those who are from here know I’m right about it. Baltimore was the first American municipality to mandate legal housing segregation in 1911. Subsequently, Black Baltimore has also endured the punitive […]
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Baltimore’s Pelosi Skewers Trump in Letter to Dems
By AFRO Staff Baltimore native and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues on April 14, outlining Donald Trump’s complicity in the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic, specifically its deadly and disastrous impact on Americans. “The truth is that in January Donald Trump was warned about this pandemic, ignored […]
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Loans to Bolster Small Businesses During COVID-19
By AFRO Staff On April 14, the City of Baltimore announced a partnership with Goldman Sachs and Lendistry to provide $10 million in potentially forgivable SBA Paycheck Protection Program loans to help vulnerable Baltimore City small businesses, including non-profit organizations. Baltimore City is home to more than 12,000 small businesses that collectively account for more […]
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Mayor Young Issues Executive Order Regarding Facial Coverings
The Mayor advises all residents of Baltimore City to wear cloth masks or other facial coverings, as defined by the CDC, when out in the community and especially when social distancing measures are not possible. The executive order also advises residents to wear facial coverings when visiting essential businesses and, when interacting with delivery personnel […]
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NAACP Launches Stay Home Baltimore Initiative
NAACP BALTIMORE LAUNCH STAY HOME BALTIMORE EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AND INITIATIVE Local Influencers and Celebrities Join NAACP in Effort to Increase Awareness About COVID-19 Health Crisis in Baltimore BALTIMORE, MD –In response to the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) health crisis, the Baltimore Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is partnering with […]