Former Former Senator Nathaniel McFadden. (Courtesy Photo) Our nation, state, city and the communities he so ably served has lost a great man, and I have lost a great friend and colleague. Elijah Cummings was the epitome of the word public servant. From our days a half century ago at City College, through our formative […]
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Baltimore Community Remembers Elijah Cummings
Rep. Elijah Cummings with Sonya Murphy at the AFRO’s 85th Clean Block Celebration this past August at Cylburn Arboretum. If you’d like to share your condolences and fond memories with the AFRO readership, please send them to editor@afro.com.
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Rep. Cummings Wrote His Love for Baltimore
When we approached Rep. Elijah Cummings to write the foreword of the AFRO’s book, “The Thing I Love About Baltimore,” there was no hesitation. In spite of his schedule and the many things he could have chosen to fill whatever spare moments he found, he wanted to sign onto a project to venerate the city […]
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Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings Has Died
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68. Cummings was a formidable orator who […]
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Md. Governor Offers Final Settlement to State’s HBCUs
By WI Web Staff via BlackPressUSA.com To the ire of his state’s lawmakers, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has offered a final proposal of $200 million to settle a 13-year-old lawsuit over inequitable funding of the state’s four historically black colleges and universities — less than half of the sought amount. Hogan’s administration made the […]
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Lawmaker Charged With Federal Wire Fraud
By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, mgray@afro.com Prince George’s County Democratic State Representative Tawanna Gaines, who has served in the Maryland House of Delegates since 2001, resigned Oct. 4 after she was formally indicted on wire fraud charges. “After much thought and consideration, I have decided to submit my immediate resignation to the Maryland House of […]
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City Gets $9.7 Million For Lead Paint Crisis
By AFRO Staff On Sept. 26, U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, Dutch Ruppersberger, and John Sarbanes announced $9.7 million in federal funding to address lead-based paint in Baltimore. The funding, awarded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will allow Baltimore to work to […]
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Inadequate Funding for HBCUs
By Rev. Dr. Kevin A. Slayton, Sr. Pastor of Lanham United Methodist Church in Lanham, Maryland The Governor’s offer of $200 million to address the decades of inadequate funding of Maryland’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) should be an insult to our intelligence. He has made the mistake that so many of our White […]
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Revenue Board Updates Tax Projections
By Elliott Davis, Capital News Service The Maryland Board of Revenue Estimates voted unanimously on Sept. 19 to increase the state’s projected revenues for the current fiscal year by just under $130 million, but cautioned that the uptick “is not indicative of long-term economic growth.” The new estimate, a 2.7 percent increase compared to the last […]
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Cardin and Brown: ‘Military Families Pay for Trump’s Wall’
By Samantha Hawkins, Capital News Service With sewage backups, flooding, mold and pests, and frequent Internet, phone, and air conditioning outages, Joint Base Andrews is in desperate need of a new childcare center. Congress allocated $13 million to replace the deteriorating center, but last week the money was taken away and instead diverted to fund President […]
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Baltimore: ‘Trump’s The Real Rat!’
By Jessica Dortch, Afro Staff, jdortch@afro.com There is nothing subtle about President Donald Trump, and his first visit to Baltimore, since his Twitter attack against the city, was anything but that. Several streets were closed in Harbor East on Sept. 12 in preparation for the president’s arrival at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel later that evening, but […]
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Maryland Communities and D.C. Receive Youth Homelessness Grants
By GABRIELLE WANNEH, Capital News Service Baltimore, Prince George’s County and the District of Columbia are among 23 communities receiving a total of $75 million in federal funds to combat youth homelessness. The $75 million was awarded as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, which started in 2016. The […]