By Renee Foose, Special to the AFRO The Rev. Vaile Leonard is the founder of Light of Truth Center (LTC), a non-profit organization that embraces a new innovative, three-phase process of recovery, transition, and restoration for recovering women. With five locations in Baltimore, LTC, is an innovative residential and outpatient therapeutic treatment program providing the […]
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Gwendolyn Woody, Health & Business Coach
By Renee Foose, Special to the AFRO Gwen Woody is a Baltimore native and Texas-based entrepreneur who is paving the way for the community to learn about diabetes. Woody has established three businesses in the Baltimore area designed to help impacted communities learn about food choices that support wellness. “Many communities in Baltimore are food […]
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Cordelia Cranshaw, Miss D.C., U.S.A.
By Micha Green, AFRO D.C. Editor The road to beauty queen was not always easy for Miss District of Columbia 2019, Cordelia Cranshaw. With 18 siblings, a mother in prison and father with alcoholism, the 26-year-old beauty queen spent much of her life in foster care, ageing out at 21. As opposed to being defeated […]
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Tiffany D. Cross, Co-Founder & Managing Editor
By Micha Green, AFRO D.C. Editor As Co-Founder and Managing Editor of The Beat DC, a national platform that covers politics, business, media and people of color, Tiffany D. Cross is a major contribution to news in the District of Columbia and the country. Before The Beat DC and her regular appearances on MSNBC, CNN […]
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Jo Ann Jenkins, President and CEO of AARP
By Tia Trammell, Special to the AFRO Jo Ann Jenkins, president and CEO of AARP, is a seasoned leader and innovator in business. To date she is in the business of empowering people to choose how they live as they age.” Born and raised in Mobile, Ala., home of one of the largest cruise terminals […]
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BWR Releases Sixth Annual Report About Black Women
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer The Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) Intergenerational Public Policy Network released their sixth annual BWR Report, “Black Women in the U.S. & Key States, 2019: Centering Black Women & Girls Leadership & Public Policy Agenda in a Polarized Political Era.” The BWR is the women and girls leadership development and […]
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An Open Love Letter to Black Women
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com My ascended mother Leslie is the star of the three most seminal moments of my life; the day I was born, the day I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior (she brought me to the altar) and the day she was murdered. I think about her every day, I […]
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NNPA Honors Black Lives Matter Founder with Newsmaker of the Year Award
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Alicia Garza said she’s “super excited” about being named the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) 2019 Newsmaker of the Year, an award she’s scheduled to receive on Thursday, March 21, in Washington, D.C., during Black Press Week. “I’ll say it’s really humbling when the community reaches out […]
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An Open Letter Celebrating Black Women
Submitted to the AFRO Kevin Daniels As we observe and celebrate around the country what has been deemed Women’s History Month, the progress of this country would have been completely halted without the productivity and achievements of great women, and more specifically, in this context, Black women. It is unapologetically true that both historically and […]
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NNPA Enshrines AFRO Editor Emeritus
By AFRO Staff Frances L. Murphy, II, publisher emeritus of the Washington AFRO-AMERICAN Newspapers was enshrined this week by the National Newspaper Publisher’s Association (NNPA) as one of two Black outstanding newspaper publishers to be enshrined into the Gallery of Distinguished Black Publishers. The historic event took place on the campus of Howard University in […]
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Joan Williams, Miss Crown City 1958 who was Denied a Place in the Rose Parade Due to her Race, has Died
This article was originally published in the Pasadena Weekly. Joan Williams, whose story of racial reconciliation inspired the nation, passed away from ovarian cancer on Feb. 20 at her home near the Rose Bowl. She was 86. More than a half-century after she was discriminated against by city officials in 1958 and denied a ride […]
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Tiffany Majors, President & CEO
By Shana Trammell, Special to the AFRO Beautiful, educated, and altruistic. Tiffany Majors has spent her life dedicating her time and efforts to serving the forgotten and unprivileged in Maryland. Over a span of two decades Majors continues to focus her attention to the many trials that plague the black community. Challenges such as housing, employment, […]
