By Christina Sturdivant Sani, Special to the AFRO “This is an important initiative that we should all support and get behind,” tweeted rapper Common on April 17, in support of the first-ever Black Maternal Health Week. From April 11-17, hundreds of people convened in venues across the country and took to social media to raise awareness […]
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Meek Mill: People Going Through Same Ordeal Depending on Him
By The Associated Press Rapper Meek Mill said Wednesday that now that he’s out of prison, a lot of people facing similar battles with the criminal justice system are depending on him. “I got a lot of responsibility,” he said in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. He said the men counting […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, hoping you all are in great spirits, enjoying life, keeping a positive mind and treating others as you wish to be treated. Rolling out a taste of history and culture at the Avenue Bakery located at 2229 Pennsylvania Ave., with Baltimore African-American sports icons mural unveiling, […]
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Are You Your Sister’s Keeper?
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Finger sandwiches, fruit tarts and big hats were on display at the second Annual AFRO High Tea April 21, yet the tea tradition was not the focus of the event, but rather the underscore of a powerful message about women’s empowerment. The theme of the event, “We Too Support […]
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Greeks Raise Funds for Delta Member Killed at Waffle House
By AFRO Staff DeEbony Groves, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, was set to graduate from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee next month. Instead she and three other people were gunned down over the weekend allegedly by a semi-naked man while at a Waffle House. DeEbony Groves, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, […]
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Ex-Players Open Up About Marijuana and the NFL
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com More and more ex-NFL players are opening up about using marijuana during their playing careers. Recently retired tight end Martellus Bennett told reporters just a week ago that he estimates about 89 percent of the NFL’s active players use marijuana, despite the drug currently being on the league’s banned substance […]
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Vick and Church Leaders Seek to Inspire Next Generation
By Hamil R. Harris, Special to the AFRO On April 13 and 14, First Baptist Church of Glenarden was filled with more than two-thousand men for the 18th annual “Mighty Men of Valor,” a conference tailored for men to have a weekend of, “fellowship, training and celebration,” said its founder, the Rev Dr. Clifford Ashe. Ashe […]
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Black-Owned Studio Tones Bodies
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO Caption: Maya Dennis (left), Jillian Carter (center) and Alexis Miller (right), all work at Sidebarre, a Black-owned barre company that teaches classes in D.C. and Maryland. Carter, 24, formerly a pointe ballerina, started the company in January after she noticed a lack of diversity at mainstream barre studios. […]
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Why Aren’t More Black Baltimoreans Working?
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Black Baltimoreans remain dramatically behind Baltimore Whites across several key employment sectors, a new study reveals. The study, commissioned by Associated Black Charities (ABC), penetrated into traditionally generalized employment figures to determine just what jobs Black were working compared to Whites. While Blacks could be considered to be […]
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Former NFL Great Michael Vick Doesn’t Dodge His Past
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO Michael Vick became an NFL legend by eluding defenders that were trying to stop him. With his playing days now over Vick doesn’t run away from his past as he candidly shares his life story around the country while making an appearance at First Baptist Church of Glenarden’s […]
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Rosa Parks House to be Shown, After Trans-Atlantic Odyssey
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and DAVID RISING, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The small, tired house with peeling white paint once served as a refuge for Rosa Parks in Detroit. It has traveled across the world and back in an odyssey conceived by an artist and a Parks family member determined to preserve the civil […]
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Irène P. Mathieu’s Poetic Approach to Global Health
By Tilesha Brown, Special to the AFRO Irène P. Mathieu was a featured poet at the recent Virginia Festival of the Book. At the New Dominion Book Shop, in downtown Charlottesville, she read to a room full of both fans of her work and new supporters in a program called “Root & Tendril: A Poetry Reading.” […]