Category: Baltimore News

By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Two burly young men armed with squeegees and windex approached my vehicle the morning of Feb. 17, near the traffic light at Conway, as I prepared to turn on to 395, on my way to work.  And I did what I usually do; I made eye contact as […]

By AFRO Staff On Feb. 18, the AFRO’s Baltimore Editor, Sean Yoes sat down with several members of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), to discuss the plight of the city. Yoes was invited to the monthly meeting by chapter president Larry Young, host of the Larry Young Morning Show, on WOLB […]

By AFRO Staff Community groups, civic organizations and resident volunteers in Baltimore can now sign up to participate in a citywide spring cleanup effort, and in exchange, earn credits toward their stormwater fee. This AFRO archive shows the residents of Baltimore City cleaning their iconic marble steps. (AFRO Archives) The city’s Department of Public Works […]

By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com “On next Tuesday morning at 12 o’clock, in old Bethel church, a grand mass meeting of extra-ordinary and far-reaching importance will be held,” read an editorial in the Afro-American Ledger, on January 23, 1904, titled, “Shall We Surrender the Franchise?” “To declare the mind of Afro-American citizens with […]

Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The United Mutual Brotherhood of Liberty “As slavery grew to a system and the Cotton Kingdom began to expand into imperial white domination, a free Negro was a contradiction, a threat and a menace. As a thief and a vagabond, he threatened society; but as an educated property holder, […]