By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com While working as a teacher in Newark, New Jersey Jade Kearney got pregnant with her first daughter. As […]
Category: LIFE & STYLE
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#WordinBlack: Thanks to expiring school meal waivers, more Black kids will be hungry
By Maya Pottiger, Word in Black No lunch money? No problem For the past two years, instead of students racking up lunch debt or having to skip eating a meal […]
Posted inWashington D.C. News
D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Plaza – what is the message today?
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. News Editor Black Lives Matter – three words have galvanized millions of people from all races, religions and cultures around the planet to spontaneously spill […]
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Juneteenth: are we free in every way?
By Mylika Scatliffe, AFRO Women’s Health Writer Juneteenth is a portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth” commemorating the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that thousands of […]
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Alzheimer’s Association African American Town Hall on Memory Loss on June 22, 2022, at Reginald F. Lewis Museum
By The Alzheimer’s Association June 14, 2022, Towson, Md.—The Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore becomes a classroom on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, from 2 to 4 p.m., when the […]
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DC Afro-Latino Festival – Intro To Summer
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor The DC Afro-Latino festival at Malcolm X Park June 5, offered just the right intro to summertime in the District of Columbia. The new […]
Posted inArts & Culture
SOWEBO Art and Music Festival 2022
By AFRO Staff The SOWEBO Art and Music Festival once again returned to Baltimore on May 29th, with a mix of interesting offerings for all ages. SOWEBO, which stands for […]
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Black-owned Célébrez en Rosé festival returns to D.C. and travels to Chicago for the first time
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com It’s time to break out your finest pink and white attire because the premier Black-owned festival for wines, […]
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#WordinBlack: Juneteenth Ice Cream: Black exploitation or cultural celebration?
By Laura Onyeneh, Word in Black By now you would have thought corporations would have learned their lesson about exploiting Black pain for capital gain after the killing of George […]
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New exhibition inspired by the AFRO Archives opens in Paris
By Savannah Wood, Special to the AFRO Afro Charities recently celebrated the opening of Nectar, a new solo exhibition by New York based artist Xaviera Simmons in Paris, France. The […]
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More than 70,000 pounds of infant formula arrive in the U.S. to combat shortage
By Michael Conroy, The Associated Press A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several […]
Posted inBaltimore News
The Hidden Costs of Aging in Place: Why Life Plan Communities May Be Better Than Staying in Your Home
As we age, you may have to ask yourself an important question: Does my home have everything I need right now, or is staying here causing more stress? Depending on […]