Category: National News

This year’s U.S. Conference on AIDS, held Sept.10-13 at D.C.’s Marriott Marquis, brought together researchers, physicians, advocates, educators, and those living with HIV together to discuss real-time solutions to eliminating AIDS – particularly within at-risk populations. While highlights of the conference included the successful trials of pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – a drug (known as Truvada) […]

Jamal Bryant speaks at the AFRO’s offices in Baltimore. (Photo by Da’Rrell L. Privott) In a stunning move, Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant announced on Sept. 14 that he would challenge Rep. Elijah Cumming for his seat in the 7th Congressional District. Bryant, a Baltimore native, is the pastor of the 12,000 member Empowerment Temple in […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amid all the bombast in the Republican race for president, Ben Carson comes across more like a whisper. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson delivers a speech to supporters Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in Phoenix. The state Republican Party says Tuesday evening’s rally was moved from a church in Tempe to the […]

President Barack Obama speaks at Macomb Community College, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, in Warren, Mich. Obama announces new steps to expand apprenticeships and a push to make community college free for responsible students. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) President Obama this week announced new opportunities for Americans to broaden their horizons and forge successful career pathways. Speaking […]

Party undermines race among African-American voters; a new study finds, signaling a potentially hard sell for the Republican Party within this voting bloc. And it’s a problem that would likely not be solved by merely promoting Black Republican candidates for office. “There are some very successful African-American Republicans, but those folks don’t attract African-American votes,” […]

Bishop E.W. Jackson presents a petition asking for the removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery. (Courtesy Photo) Planned Parenthood, the abortion rights group, recently came under attack from a group of local ministers, known collectively as Ministers Taking a Stand. The group is demanding that the bust of the […]

For many of the young activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, the shooting death of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of vigilante George Zimmerman by a Sanford, Florida jury of Whites marked a tragic coming of age. Until that moment, most Black millennials in the U.S. operated under the illusion that they were […]

Bob Kunst, of Miami Beach, Fla., wears a Hillary Rodham Clinton mask while attending a Tea Party rally against the Iran deal on the West Lawn, of the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015. The rally is expected to be attended by Republican presidential candidates Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn […]

Judge Barry Williams (Courtesy Photo) The Freddie Gray saga moved from the streets to the courtroom last week, turning a world-sized spotlight on Associate Judge Barry Williams, the Baltimore City Circuit Court jurist who is overseeing the criminal cases of the police officers charged in Gray’s death. But the 53-year-old is unlikely to wilt under […]

A mural in Baltimore depicts Freddie Gray. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) BALTIMORE (AP) — A city board approved on Wednesday a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who died a week after he was critically injured while in police custody. The settlement, announced Tuesday, could play a role in […]