For college baseball’s boys of summer, whose rites of passage are drenched in the warmth of heat and humidity in June and July, a frosty March weekend at the Washington National Baseball Academy helps the DC Grays fulfill its mission to embrace HBCU baseball. Despite freezing temperatures Coppin State represents the MEAC and HBCU Baseball […]
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5 Dead in Vehicle, Knife Attack at British Parliament
LONDON (AP) — A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wednesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five people were killed, including the assailant, and 40 others were injured in what […]
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Oscar Winner Lou Gossett Jr. Partners With Pepperdine to Erase Racism
At the age of eighty, Academy Award winning actor and lifelong activist, Lou Gossett, Jr. remains in love with life and in love with humanity. “Everything is green. It looks like Ireland or Scotland it’s so gorgeous. The fruit trees are beginning to burst. The oranges, the lemons, persimmons, clementines,” he told the AFRO. Lou […]
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Local Musician: James King, Jr.
For the past 40-plus years, local musician James King, Jr. has been laying a solid foundation for musicians around the world. His mastery of the upright bass displays confidence and ebullience. King is a bender of notes and ideas. His resonate tone puts the meat on the musical bones of a composition. King, who resides […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
“When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.”-Malala Yousafzai As we close out the exciting month of March and embrace the new season of spring […]
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Police: White Baltimore Murder Suspect Went to NYC to Attack Black Men
NEW YORK (AP) — A White man from Baltimore bent on making a racist attack took a bus to New York City, the “media capital of the world,” randomly picked out a Black man who was collecting bottles on the street and fatally wounded him with a sword, police said Wednesday. James Harris Jackson, 28, […]
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The Latest: Multiple Incidents Near UK Parliament
(Updated-3/22/2017) LONDON (AP) — The Latest on reports of an incident outside Britain’s parliament (all times local): 4:35 p.m. The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh suspended its debate on a second independence referendum after the incident outside the British Parliament in London. An Air Ambulance on the scene after sounds similar to gunfire have been heard […]
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Dylann Roof’s Friend Gets over 2 Years for Hindering FBI
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — During a night of vodka, cocaine, marijuana and video games, Joey Meek listened as a childhood buddy confided that he hated Blacks so much he was going to kill them at a Charleston church. Meek said he thought his friend was all talk until a week later, when news broke of […]
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Wyclef Jean Says He Was Mistaken for Robbery Suspect
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grammy-winning musician Wyclef Jean said he was handcuffed and “treated like a criminal” when Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies mistook him for a violent armed robber early Tuesday. The former Fugees star posted a video on Twitter showing himself in handcuffs leaned over a patrol car in West Hollywood, decrying the […]
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Chappelle Celebrates Netflix Release with All-Star Party
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dave Chappelle has celebrated Tuesday’s release of a pair of Netflix comedy specials with some high-profile friends. FILE – In this July 18, 2015, file photo, comedian Dave Chappelle speaks at the RUSH Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Art for Life Benefit in New York. Chappelle celebrated therelease of a pair of Netflix […]
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Drama ‘Shots Fired’ Takes Reversed Layered Look at Police Shootings
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The title of “Shots Fired” makes it clear the new drama series is treading on contentious turf. Yes, a police shooting of an unarmed youth is at the center of the story, paired with a previous death by gunfire. But it’s an African-American sheriff’s deputy who has killed a White college […]
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Dylann Roof’s Friend is Going to Prison for Lying to FBI
The only person with whom Dylann Roof shared his racist plan to massacre worshippers at a historically black South Carolina church is about to find out how long he will go to prison for lying to the FBI. Joey Meek is set to be sentenced Tuesday in Charleston by the same federal judge who presided […]