At The AFRO, we’ve always used our platform to celebrate, invest in and highlight Black businesses and brands. We uplift and elevate each other so that we can rise together. Which is why last year was particularly hard: hard hearing the reports from our fellow Black entrepreneurs about being left out of the Paycheck Protection […]
Category: !Front Page
Posted in!Front Page
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG), welcomes Anthony McCarthy to fill the position of Special Agent of Communications and Equity
Anthony McCarthy The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is committed to our mission to stop financial fraud, waste, and abuse within Baltimore City Government and vendors doing business with the city. Complaints are received from government officials, employees, and concerned citizens via the hotline or in person. The complaints are evaluated and may result in […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Annapolis 2021: Real law enforcement reform in Maryland?
(By Good luck images_Shutterstock) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Even as HR7120, known as the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act sits in the Senate after passing out of the House on March 3, advocates for real law enforcement reform in Maryland are fighting for perhaps the most comprehensive legislation to combat police […]
Posted inUncategorized
Traditional healing in contemporary context
A traditional healer attends Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township (near Johannesburg) in South Africa on April 27, 2019. Traditional African healing practices are still used to this day and considered as a means of treatment by the World Health Organization (WHO). (AP Photo/Denis Farrell) By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As a spiritual, […]
Posted in!Front Page
State of the city: Mayor Scott’s first 100 days
Mayor Brandon M. Scott (Courtesy Photo/https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com When Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott took his oath of office in December he was immediately confronted with dual crises: the city’s towering murder rate and a global pandemic that had killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. On March 18, at the 100 […]
Posted in!Front Page
‘Dr. Kizzy’ helped save the day
Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist with the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Photo courtesy Black Health Matters) By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, the leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Vaccine Research Center’s (VRC) Coronavirus Team, a young Black woman known affectionately as “Dr. Kizzy” […]
Posted in!Front Page
Black anti-vaxxers have major concerns amid federal push
In this 1950’s photo released by the National Archives, men included in a syphilis study pose for a photo in Tuskegee, Ala. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually transmitted disease simply so doctors could track the ravages of the horrid […]
Posted inCoronavirus
The pandemic has reshaped the fitness industry
Marcia Ra-Akbar has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years with a goal of bridging the gap in minority health and wellness. (Courtesy Photo) By Marcia Ra-Akbar AFRO Guest editor The fitness industry has come a long way since the early boom of the 80s. In the more than 20 years that I […]
Posted in!Front Page
We’re Still Here: Maintaining our health Is a must!
Frances “Toni” Draper, AFRO CEO and Publisher By Dr. Frances “Toni” Murphy Draper AFRO CEO and Publisher Recently, I heard a comedian say that, in spite of the barrage of COVID-19 warnings and restrictions, he’d done a lot of traveling this past year – from his bedroom to his refrigerator, from his refrigerator to his […]
Posted in!Front Page
AFRO Exclusive: Legislature passes HBCU funding bill
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com A 16-year court battle between the State of Maryland and its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) may be coming to an end with the passage of the HBCU Funding Bill out of the Maryland Legislature with a price tag of $577 million. “This lawsuit has been going […]
Posted inARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Hill Harper to Keynote CSU’s 2021 Commencement
Actor and Author, Hill Harper (Courtesy Photo) Humanitarian, Actor and Author, Hill Harper to Keynote CSU’s 2021 Commencement BALTIMORE — Humanitarian, award-winning actor, best-selling author and entrepreneur, Hill Harper will be the keynote speaker for Coppin State University’s (CSU) 2021 commencement event, on May 14. Harper, also a health and wellness ambassador/educator and philanthropist, stars in ABC’s […]
Posted inUncategorized
Mayor Scott eases COVID-19 restrictions following four-week evaluation
Mayor Brandon M. Scott (Courtesy Photo/https://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/) Restrictions to Now be Reevaluated on a Two Week Basis BALTIMORE, MD (Wednesday, March 17, 2021) — This afternoon, Mayor Brandon M. Scott and Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa announced that Baltimore City will further ease its COVID-19 mandates following consultation with public health partners and sustained […]