By AFRO Staff A leaked draft of the Supreme Court opinion expected to overturn the historic decision in the Roe v. Wade case from 1973 has divided the nation. Proponents of the pro-life movement, in support of strict abortion laws and even abortion bans, were pleased to see the document leaked on May 3 by […]
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#WordinBlack: Black Teachers Are Fed Up — and They’re Quitting in Droves
by Maya Pottiger When she gets home from work, it takes Monise Seward two or three hours to decompress from the day. She sits there — just sits — to feel the stress leave her body. Seward is a middle school math teacher in Metro Indianapolis. She’s worked in schools for the last nine years — […]
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HBCU-led marketing firm ABCD & Company proves philanthropy is just as important as earning a profit
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com Fellow Howard University alumni and best friends Brittanye Briscoe, Amber Dozier, Durecia Moorer and Corey Briscoe established full-service marketing and events firm ABCD & Company in Rockville, Maryland back in 2014. Though all of them had personal motivations for becoming entrepreneurs, there was […]
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D.C. mayor and police chief announce new gun violence task force in the wake of a violent surge
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. News Editor Washington D.C. residents are still reeling after four separate shooting incidents during the week beginning on April 25 in a surge of violence spanning several sectors of the city, according to Metropolitan Police. Four persons were hospitalized and one death occurred due to the spurt of violence that […]
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ON VIDEO: Historic Morgan Park home erupts into flames seconds after BGE transformer sparks
By Nicole D. Batey, Special to the AFRO A home in historic Morgan Park caught fire this month after a BGE transformer near the home exploded. On April 6 at 2:07 am siblings Leonora and Caleb Eubanks were awakened out of their sleep in their family home in the 2000 block of College Avenue by […]
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5th Annual Dream Big Contest winners honored on stage at The Lyric Baltimore
By Special to the AFRO Winners of the 5th annual Dream Big Contest were recently announced and celebrated at the Lyric Baltimore, the historic live-entertainment venue in Baltimore, Md. The Lyric Foundation, which operates and maintains the theater, announced both Dreamers (runners-up) and Visionaries (grand prize winners) on the Lyric stage. “The Lyric Education team […]
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Protestors demand justice for Patrick Lyoya
By AFRO Staff The family members of Patrick Lyoya, the Black man shot in the back of the head by a Grand Rapids, Mich. police officer on April 4, selected civil rights giant Rev. Al Sharpton to deliver the 26-year-old’s eulogy on April 22. Lyoya moved from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014 to […]
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Nation’s first Black-woman led community solar company forges partnership with University of Maryland Medical system to build Baltimore solar farm
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member msayles@afro.com WeSolar, Inc. (WeSolar) in collaboration with the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) announced a new partnership on Thursday to build a solar farm in Baltimore City that will provide power to UMMS facilities and city residents. UMMS will pay $10,000 per month […]
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#WordinBlack: Why aren’t there more Black librarians?
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black Librarians have superpowers. It was true in the late ’90s when Marvel’s original Spider-Woman was a Black librarian named Valerie — and it was true in 1905 when the son of two formerly enslaved Black people opened the first library in the United States that served and was fully […]
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#WordinBlack: AP for All,’ the Program Still Isn’t Reaching Black Students
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black This is the first article in a three-part series that looks at why Advanced Placement (AP) classes aren’t offered to all students, the barriers to being able to take an AP class, and, in the end, who benefits from these classes and tests. When Advanced Placement exam time rolls […]
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#WordinBlack: Colleges are ditching the SAT, but should Black students still take it?
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black Many of us can relate to the anxiety facing the latest group of high school seniors awaiting college acceptance letters, but there’s something unique to the class of 2022 — and no, it’s not navigating higher ed admissions through the ongoing pandemic. Less than half of college applicants submitted […]
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Criminal court judge invents The Hair Shield, helping Black women save money by protecting their extensions
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member msayles@afro.com Dallas County Criminal Court Judge Shequitta Kelly used to be a self-professed penny pincher. Being a single, teenage mother, she lived her life on a strict budget to be able to provide for her family while putting herself through law school. Her lifelong […]
