By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com 20 lives lost in just 14 days due to violence in the District. In two weeks people’s mothers, fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins and friends were taken by barrels of guns and the murderers who pulled those triggers. None of them were perfect human beings when they started […]
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We Still #SayHerName: Remembering Sandra Bland 5 Years Later
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Say her name for every year since her justice fighting light was dimmed. It’s been five years since Bland was arrested, detained and found hanging three days later in a Waller County, Texas jail cell. Her death was […]
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D.C.’s NFL Team Succumbs To Pressure, Will Change Name
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com After 87 years, the National Football League (NFL) franchise in Washington, D.C. will change its name. With sponsors threatening to end their relationships and a social movement against racism sweeping the nation, one of the NFL’s most visible franchises ends an era marked by a checkered past […]
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Five Years Later – Five Years Too Late: Reflections on Broken Baltimore 5 years after the Uprising
By Bishop Douglas Miles As I look at Baltimore five years after the Freddie Gray uprising the saying “Three strikes you are out” keeps coming to mind. The nation once again in chaos because another Black man has been killed by the police or White men. The names change-Eric, Trayvon, Freddie and now George. The […]
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CBCF Welcomes Tonya Veasey as President and CEO
CBCF Welcomes Public Affairs Strategist and Marketing Leader as New President and CEO WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) announced today that Tonya Veasey, communications and marketing agency founder and CEO will lead the organization as its new president and chief executive officer. For more than 20 years, Veasey has provided award-winning […]
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Seniors Can Protect Health, Finances During Pandemic
By Chris Orestis Special to the AFRO Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, health officials have been clear and consistent in their message to seniors: while anyone can fall victim to COVID-19, those who are 65 and older are in an especially high-risk group. That’s why older Americans need to be especially careful, and in the case […]
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Stop the Violence: 11-Year-Old is Killed in Violent Weekend
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com In what is, generally, Muriel Bowser’s daily COVID-19 press briefing, the D.C. Mayor took the time to address the violence in the District over the weekend that took the lives of three DMV residents, including that of 11-year-old Davon McNeal on the 1400 block of Cedar Street Southeast. […]
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Brown Promotes Removal of Confederate Names, Military Diversity
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Maryland Congressman and former Lt. Governor Anthony Brown has become more vocal about racism and diversity as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to make its presence felt on Capitol Hill. Brown, a 30-year military veteran, was instrumental in the United States House of Representatives’ passage of […]
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Exclusive: Commissioner Harrison Talks to the AFRO: `We Have Been Asked to Be All Things to All People’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison spoke exclusively to the AFRO about budget cuts to his department that went into effect on July 1, and the role of law enforcement in Baltimore. Part one of two. The American experience is knit together by a series of transcendent moments many […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Black Face Photo Sparks Concern
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO A picture snapped nearly eight years ago in Rotterdam, Netherlands led to a resignation letter from the lead contractor in South Baltimore’s Middle Branch waterfront redevelopment. The Baltimore City Board of Estimates announced May 11 that West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, a Dutch firm, would be […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Clarke Peters Talks Da 5 Bloods and Journey
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com With almost five decades in the entertainment industry, actor Clarke Peters has achieved a “legendary” status, yet per his frank conversation with the AFRO and moving performance as Otis in Spike Lee’s new film, Da 5 Bloods, the multifaceted artist clearly has no intention of slowing down, and […]
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Book Helps Parents Talk About Racism and Police Brutality
BLACK AUTHOR RELEASES BOOK TO ASSIST PARENTS IN STARTING THE CONVERSATION ON RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY “The Talk: A Black Family’s Conversation about Racism and Police Brutality” by Ama Karikari-Yawson, Esq. Nationwide (BlackNews.com) — All over the country, parents are having the “the talk” with their kids about racism, stereotyping, and police brutality in the […]