By CALLAN TANSILL-SUDDATH Capital News Service Annapolis Bureau Preliminary data from 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths linked with opioids in Maryland, particularly fentanyl; health officials blame the pandemic. The number of unintentional intoxication overdoses — those involving all drugs and alcohol — rose 18.7% to 2,773 in 2020 from 2,379 in 2019, according […]
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Agreement reached, millions for Maryland HBCUs
Local HBCUs Howard, Bowie State, Coppin State, Morgan State and Maryland Eastern Shore. (Courtesy Photo) By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO An agreement has been reached to settle a 15-year old lawsuit that will bring millions of dollars to Maryland’s four HBCUs beginning in 2024. “This settlement marks an historic investment in Maryland’s Historically […]
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#WordinBlack: Observations continue for teachers during pandemic
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that 3.2 million Americans were employed as educators in a public school district last year. In many states, teachers depend on evaluations to gain access to pay increases based on performance. (Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash) By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO The spring observation season […]
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Kamala Harris to visit Baltimore to mark 100 days in office
Vice President Kamala Harris meets virtually with Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei, Monday, April 26, 2021, from her ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit Baltimore this week, 100 days after she and […]
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Black people got Ma’Khia killed
Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Moments before three guilty verdicts in the trial of disgraced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin came down and exaltation erupted across the country, in Columbus, Ohio 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant was fighting for her life. It only took seconds for her to lose that fight. […]
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Megan Sayles to join AFRO staff in June
Megan Sayles (Courtesy Photo) By Rev. Dorothy Boulware AFRO Managing Editor The AFRO is thrilled to welcome Megan Sayles, a Report for America journalist, who will come on board, June 1, to cover the business beat. She’s graduating in May from the University of Maryland with dual undergraduate degrees in multi platform journalism and government […]
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
By Mylika Scatliffe, Special to the AFRO The Covid 19 global pandemic was declared in March 2020. Since then, America has seen over 500,000 of its citizens die from Covid. Vaccines rolled out in record time for emergency use; those 16 & over and are currently being tested for children as young as 6 months. […]
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Spare the bullets and save the child
(By Lightspring_Shutterstock) By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Special to the AFRO When a stray bullet struck and killed three year old McKenzie Elliott on August 1, 2014 as she played on her mother’s porch, Baltimore was in shock. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called it a “very, very painful time in our city.” Terrell Plummer, age 29, […]
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Op-ed: Finishing The Road Paved
By Brittany Young If you watched Lovecraft Country this summer, you might have wondered why the woman riding her motorcycle on the side of Tik’s car was significant. That woman was Bessie Stringfield: the first Black woman inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, the beauty behind what we now call stunt riding, and the […]
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In advance of Fall Semester, Morgan State requires students, faculty & staff to receive full vaccination
(Photo Courtesy of Office of Morgan State University) President David Wilson to Form Vaccination Management Team to Oversee Campus-wide Effort BALTIMORE — Morgan State University President David K. Wilson today announced the University’s Board of Regents supported-decision to require all faculty, staff and students to have received a full vaccination by August 1, 2021, before the start […]
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Number of civilian gun applications approved in Md. increases
One of the several display cases with some of the handguns available for purchase at United Gun Shop in Rockville, Maryland, in April 2021. (Photo Credit: Jonathan Bennett) BY JACOB STEINBERG Capital News Service Annapolis Bureau From 2019 to 2020, the number of approved applications for Maryland civilians licensed to buy or own a regulated […]
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COVID-19 deaths, illnesses and a ‘she-session’
The following stories were written by Morgan State University multimedia journalism students The coronavirus brought on a year of death and illness, plus another trauma, an economic “she-session.” American women have been disproportionately hobbled in the workplace. Women held 55% of the jobs lost in the wake of COVID-19, reported The Hill last May, just […]