By Camille Davis Special to the AFRO With a little over a year in business, best friends Kimberly Smith and Amaya Smith are fighting to save their Washington, DC-based beauty boutique. The Brown Beauty Co-Op’s concept is about “creating a community space for women of color to feel welcome; which includes hosting other organizations, small […]
Category: Coronavirus
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Tattoo Artist Perseveres
By Nyame-kye Kondo Special to the AFRO Privately owned businesses have been hit especially hard during this national emergency. Black entrepreneurs throughout the Washington Metropolitan area have had to find creative ways to keep their businesses afloat; one such person is Prince George’s County based tattoo artist, Cris Montana. The AFRO was able to catch […]
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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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Emancipation Day During COVID-19 Crisis
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Despite the pall of COVID-19 hanging over the nation’s capital, where more than 2,100 people have tested positive for the virus, 72 have died (as of April 15) and with most residents cooped inside, the District of Columbia still has an optimistic reason to celebrate freedom. April 16 […]
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Undocumented Immigrants Omitted from Covid-19 Relief Bill
By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO On April 7, the D.C. Council unanimously passed a coronavirus relief bill to provide financial and community assistance for District residents and businesses. The COVID-19 emergency relief bill includes rent freezes, 90-day mortgage deferments, grants to hospitals and early release for some inmates, among several other provisions. However, […]
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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 Non-Profit Launches Online Therapy Sessions
Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — Hospitals are over capacity and understaffed. Healthcare workers are overworked with an increasing number becoming patients themselves due to the shortage of proper protective equipment and long-term exposure. Even more troubling, healthcare employees are put in the position of making life or death decisions concerning who gets proper care and who does […]
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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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The Well: You Have the Power to Wake from the Nightmare
By Andi Pyatt Special to the AFRO “The Well” is a recurring column to remind us of the power we possess in mind, body and spirit. It was 1986, the morning after seeing the movie “Poltergeist.” The tiny flowers on my pillowcase were discolored from my sweat and tears. My seven year old heart was […]