By Stephanie Harper, Special to the AFRO Baltimore residents are dealing with the economic fallout of the conflict currently taking place on the Russian-Ukrainian border, roughly 5,500 miles away. On March 8, President Joe Biden announced legislation to “ban the import of Russian oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal to the United States.” A statement […]
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Singer Traci Braxton of ‘Braxton Family Values’ dies at 50
By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Traci Braxton, who was featured with her family in the reality television series “Braxton Family Values,” died at age 50 on Saturday. Her sister, Toni, and family said that Braxton died “this morning as the snow was falling.” According to reports, Traci Braxton had been fighting esophageal […]
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Implementing Anton’s Law in Maryland
By Miranda S. Spivack A community group in Montgomery County was asked to pay $95,000 for copies of police discipline and complaint records, which, under a 2021 change in Maryland law, are no longer automatically private. Local public defenders in Baltimore seeking those records have been told to pay as little as $10 to the […]
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What is Anton’s Law?
By Rebecca Snyder, executive director, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association Last year, Maryland’s General Assembly passed the groundbreaking Anton’s Law (the Maryland Police Accountability Act of 2021) to bring more transparency to police discipline records by making them available under Maryland’s Public Information Act. The movement for reform began with the 2018 death of Anton Black, a […]
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Call for environmental human rights grows louder
By Nicole D. Batey, Special to the AFRO More than 50 faith leaders from a diverse coalition of faith communities rallied together virtually on Feb. 22 for the purposes of “Protecting the Gift of Creation” in support of the Environmental Human Rights Amendment (HB-596/SB-783). Too often, neighborhoods consisting of mostly Black, Brown and low-income Marylanders, […]
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Keisha Jennings-Eakin, seeking a fair process
By J.J. McQueen, Special to the AFRO In March of 2021, Keisha Jennings-Eakin, an occupational therapist and owner of The Right Turn Rehabilitation Services, approached members of the Harford County government with a proposal for a program that supplemented the needs of seniors living within Harford county. The funding for the proposed project would come […]
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Legislative Brief: Municipal Incorporation House Bill HB0042
By J.J. McQueen, Special to the AFRO During the 2021 legislative session, HB1226 was one that could have opened doors for small communities within Harford County’s district 34-A to become municipalities. If approved, communities like Edgewoond and Joppatowne would have had the approval to form their own local governments within Harford County. Why is this […]
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Commercial developers object to legislation’s climate change costs
By STEPHEN NEUKAM, Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS – The renewed effort by Maryland Democrats to push sweeping climate legislation through the General Assembly has hit one of its first major challenges, with commercial real estate representatives balking at the bill’s major alterations to building efficiency standards and questioning the affordability of the proposed changes. The […]
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Black History month interviews of local Baltimore leaders
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Pastors and churches continue to ‘feed the sheep’
Urban churches continue to provide for members and neighbors. Epiphany Church, under the leader ship of Pastor Charley Mitchell and Co-Pastor Trevor Chin share food and supplies including safety supplies for the pandemic. Since they are a set up and break down ministry at the League of Baltimore location, they are used to doing the heavy […]
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#FaithWorks: New Beginnings in West Baltimore, LifeBridge Health Celebrates Transformative Project
By J.J. McQueen, Special to the AFRO Grace Medical Center, formerly Bon Secours Hospital, hosted its renovation celebration and demolition ceremony, which marked the transition phase of renovations for the West Baltimore medical facility. In attendance to help celebrate the event was, Daniel Blum, President, Sinai Hospital and Grace Medical Center, Pastor Rodney Morton, Maryland […]
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Baltimore’s first Black female Fire Captain
By Nadia Reese, Editorial Assistant, nreese@afro.com The Baltimore County Fire Department recently announced the elevation of Fire Lieutenant April Owens to the role of Fire Captain. Owens, who is also a member of the executive board, will be the first Black female to achieve this rank since the founding of the Baltimore Fire Department in […]
