By Rev. Dorothy Boulware AFRO Managing Editor editor@afro.com A recent AP report said seniors in Washington D.C. are “lagging behind” in vaccination numbers, especially those who live in the poorest and “Blackest” parts of the District. Almost every report says African Americans, as well as other minorities, are significantly behind in vaccination numbers. JHU’s Coronavirus […]
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DC Mayor Bowser’s only sister dies from COVID-19
Mercia Bowser, eldest sister of D.C Mayor Muriel Bowser, died on Feb. 24 after complications from COVID-19. (Courtesy Photo) By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As the nation’s capital leadership continues to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, with 1,001 fallen Washingtonians as of Feb. 23, the District of Columbia Mayor is now facing another challenge- […]
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Tiger Woods suffers leg injuries after California car crash
Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the first hole during the first round of the PNC Championship golf tournament in Orlando, Fla., in this Dec. 19, 2020, file photo. Woods was injured Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in a vehicle rollover in Los Angeles County and had to be extricated from the vehicle with the […]
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Rosedale Federal Savings & Loan Association appoints Alicia Wilson to its Board of Directors
Rosedale Federal Savings & Loan Association, a locally run, independent mutual savings and loan institution headquartered in Perry Hall, MD, announced that Alicia Wilson will serve as its newest board member. (Courtesy Photo) By Savoystaff Rosedale Federal Savings & Loan Association, a locally run, independent mutual savings and loan institution headquartered in Perry Hall, MD, […]
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Police officer. Social worker. Breaker of glass ceilings
Lt. Violet Hill Whyte was the first African American and first woman to be appointed as a Baltimore City Police Officer. (AFRO Archive) By Ralph E. Moore Special to the AFRO She was a most unusual woman: Violet Hill Whyte that is. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1897, “Miss Whyte” as she was affectionately known […]
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How Baltimore’s Black youth furthered the cause of Black press
For decades mere children kept Black Baltimore abreast of pressing issues facing the race, current events, and pop culture.Source: https://laurawmurphy.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/my-dad-the-afro-paperboy/ By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Long before 24- hour news coverage, Facebook feeds, and Tik Tok videos, newspapers kept the masses informed through an intricate network that criss-crossed the nation. Though the information […]
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We’re Still Here: A Salute to African American Firsts
Frances “Toni” Draper, AFRO CEO and Publisher “I’m not the president of Black America,” President Barack Obama famously said in 2012 when pressed during his re-election campaign on issues of race and inequality. “I’m the president of the United States of America.” While that statement was true, Barack Hussein Obama will forever be remembered as the […]
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We’re Still Here: Black Firsts from A – Z
Thurgood Marshall in his New York residence Sept. 11, 1962 after the Senate confirmation of his year-old nomination to the U.S. Circuit Court of America. On Oct. 2, 1967, he was sworn in as the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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If Black History is American History, treat it as such
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (Photo courtesy of Facebook) By U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume In 1926, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson launched “Negro History Week.” Celebrated during the second week of February, it was designed to promote the study of African American contributions to the United States. Fifty years later, in 1976, President Gerald Ford helped establish […]
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Black Broadway, Madame Lillian Evanti and Washington DC’s Black history
Madame Lillian Evanti in France in 1926 (Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse – Bibliothèque nationale de France / Wikimedia Commons) By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia There’s little question that African Americans have been a significant part of Washington, DC’s civic life and identity since the city was first declared the […]
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Hundreds pay respects to actor Cicely Tyson at her viewing
People wait on line to attend a public viewing for Cicely Tyson at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. Tyson, the pioneering Black actress died on Jan. 28. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — People traveled across the country and stood […]