By AFRO Staff Provident Hospital Did you know that Provident Hospital was one of the first medical facilities for Blacks in Baltimore? The hospital opened in 1894 with 10 beds in a small private dwelling in the northwest section of the city. A group of nurses of the earlier days. (Photos/AFRO Archives) The founders, largely […]
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HBCU Experience: The Impact of Seasoned Faculty
This article was written by a cohort from Morgan State University’s Urban Ed. Leadership doctoral program. I was born and raised in New York…and learned early on how it felt to have a “double consciousness”– what DuBois describes as the feeling of having a divided identity. Up until middle school, I lived in a majority […]
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AFRO Photographs on Display At BSU
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Bowie State kicked off the celebration of Black History Month by launching an exhibition of photographs from the AFRO chronicling the local civil rights movement through the lens of former photographer Paul Henderson. During a career that spanned almost 40 years, Henderson recounted some of the most significant […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Updates From China Quarantine Days 2 – 6
Quarantine Days 2 and 3: Snow Day/Silent Retreat The reality of the quarantine is beginning to hit me. All in one day, I experience a snow day and play the roles of Henry David Thoreau and Robinson Crusoe. When I wake up, it’s like a snow day, because I’m home and cannot open my door. […]
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Students Get Schooled in Oral Health
By AFRO Staff Dental hygiene students and dental professionals from the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) will help sixth graders from three West Baltimore schools prevent cavities by applying sealants to their teeth free of charge on Feb. 15. The middle school students are a part of the University of Maryland Baltimore’s (UMB) […]
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Prosecutors Seek Nearly 5 Years for Former Baltimore Mayor
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal prosecutors want the disgraced former mayor of Baltimore to be sentenced to nearly five years in prison for the scheme involving sales of her self-published “Healthy Holly” children’s books. In a sentencing memorandum filed Thursday, prosecutors told a judge that a sentence of 57 months in prison […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ to Rambling Rose Special Couples! By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, I just want to say “Happy Sweetheart Weekend” to all my friends. Fellows! This is the time flowers and chocolate candy come into play. I also want to say Happy Anniversary to me “Rambling Rose” for 23 years […]
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Hollywood Comes Back to Baltimore: Charm City Kings
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com In the wake of the recent Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, a new film about the pleasures and perils of life in Baltimore through the lens of the young men (and women) who zip through the streets of the city on dirt bikes premiered this week in New […]
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Black History Month With Gayle and Snoop
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com To be clear, the situation between Gayle King and Snoop Dogg is no laughing matter; it is tragic. Yet, it seems so emblematic of the 21st century media-social media fueled frenzy we find ourselves in. So, if I attempt to inject some humor would I be wrong? I […]
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AFRO Exclusive: ‘Updates From Quarantine in China’
Devika Koppikar, the former press secretary for the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, is chronicling her experience being quarantined in China due to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). As a precaution, the local authorities are requiring anyone who traveled out of and back to China to stay in their home for 14 days, the incubation period […]
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OP-ED: Protect Voting for Incarcerated Marylanders
By Nicole Hanson and Qiana Johnson The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that guaranteed and protected most women’s constitutional right to vote. Importantly, it also marks 150 years since the 15th Amendment that granted Black and Brown men the right to vote. Since the passage of these […]
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OP-ED: A Call for an Early Voting Site at Mondawmin
By Marvin “Doc” Cheatham and Owen Silverman West Baltimore has the greatest civil rights legacy of anywhere in America. When it comes to leaders, legislation, and litigation, few other places come close, and none surpass it. Despite this illustrious legacy, or more accurately, in spite of it, there is no Early Voting site in the […]