On Feb. 23 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, the AFRO honored those leaders in the Maryland/D.C. area making a positive impact on […]
Category: Black History Month 2017
Posted inWashington D.C. News
Washington D.C. Arts Collective Promoting Local Black Storytelling Industry
Three arts groups based in Washington, D.C., are joining forces to create a film and theater collective to galvanize the Black storytelling industry, locally. Prosperity Media, a nonprofit media […]
Posted inNational News
Definitely Back to Birmingham’ Pledges Dr. King
During Feb. the AFRO has been celebrating the work of former AFRO Executive Editor Moses J. Newson, who turned 90-years-old this month. In this final installment, Newsom reports from the […]
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Black Women Change Wildest Dreams into Reality
Stephanie Wilson and Joan Higginbotham, two Black women who dared to dream the impossible. One reached for the stars, the other was exceptional at math. Nevertheless, both reached, what seems, […]
Posted inNational News
Dr. Robert Higgins: A Hopkins Historical First
Exceeding Expectations – two words characterize Dr. Robert S. D. Higgins’s life as a son, surgeon and the first African American appointed as Director of the Department of Surgery at […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Spotlight on Black Educators: Sonja Santelises, CEO, BCPS
Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS) CEO Sonja Santelises has always loved everything about the learning process. As an educator, she said she is privileged to be able to merge the […]
Posted inSports
Sam Lacy Scoop Derailed History at University of Maryland
Former Afro Sports Editor and Hall of Fame journalist Sam Lacy was always ahead of his time. He tackled the social injustices of race in sports with a voracity that […]
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Civil Rights: Unfinished Business of Our Nation’s History
As one of his final acts in office, President Obama established the Freedom Riders National Monument. Building upon the ‘Journey of Reconciliation,’ an integrated bus ride through the Upper South […]
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Civil Rights Icon Calls on Students
Bowie State University students received a call to action from the first Black person to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. Their speaker, Ernest Green, was the […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
Spotlight on Black Educators: University of D.C. President Ronald Mason
The University of the District of Columbia is recognized federally as an urban land-grant institution and a HBCU. In May 2015, Ronald Mason was hired for the presidency by the […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Manse Built by America’s First Self-made Millionairess in Jeopardy
When Madam C.J. Walker first rolled into Irvington, New York, in her high-powered motorcar, the 49-year-old beauty magnate caused tongues to wag. “Impossible,” the Hudson River town’s residents told the […]
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Group Seeks to Showcase Frederick Md. County’s Black History
FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Frederick judge in 1913 struck down Maryland’s “grandfather clause” as unconstitutional. Maryland was one of a number of states with constitutions that exempted white voters […]