Baltimore, MD (8/20/20) — The Arc Baltimore has presented its annual Foster Care Excellence Award to Hattie Smith Shannon. Presented during The Arc Baltimore’s recent 2020 Virtual Awards Ceremony, the Foster Care Excellence award is given to a foster family that demonstrates an outstanding ability to meet the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of a child. […]
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Posted inNEWS
Editor Has Close Brush With Death
Originally printed May 27, 1961 By Moses J. Newson AFRO City Editor Baltimore, Md. —Friendship Airport never looked so good to me as it did Thursday afternoon when our jet pulled in from New Orleans. After two weeks in the heat, hate and hell of Dixie with the Freedom Riders, getting back to Baltimore brought […]
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Empowerment Temple Aids Families Devastated By Explosion
By Stephen Janis Special to the AFRO The fallout from a tragic explosion that destroyed several Northwest Baltimore row homes and claimed two lives continued this week. On Monday the Empowerment Temple Church sought help with funeral expenses for the victims of the deadly blast. At a press conference WJZ reported Pastor GJ Barnes asked […]
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Michelle Obama Chops Up Trump
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com During a speech for the ages during a time for the ages, First Lady Michelle Obama stayed true to form and went high, yet somehow managed to surgically filet the lowest president in the history of the United States. It was Obama, as only she can, who magnificently […]
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Family, Friends Celebrate Life of `Binx’ Watts
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Rodney “Binx” Watts, a beloved Baltimore golf legend, as well as an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, died on August 7, due to complications from COVID-19. He was 75. Watts, the son of pioneering legal figure, Judge Robert Watts, who worked with Thurgood Marshall, was the first Black […]
Posted inLIFE & STYLE
The Well: The Tightrope of Life
By Andi Pyatt Special to the AFRO “The Well” is a recurring column to remind us of the power we possess in mind, body and spirit. As I reflect on recent world changes one word repeatedly comes to mind. That word is “balance”. It is a word with various definitions and understandings. We are constantly […]
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Police: Stop Treating Us Like Animals. We Do Not Belong On The Ground
By Larry S. Gibson The video is heart wrenching – police officers standing over five black females lying face down on the ground, some with their hands cuffed behind their backs, the six year old girl crying and pleading to be put next to her teenage sister, who was struggling to keep her face up […]
Posted inOPINION
COMMENTARY: Shutting Down Maryland’s Mass Incarceration Machine
By Sen. Jill P. Carter Covid-19 has prompted a reckoning in Maryland. Very few facets of our society are more in need of reform than our state’s broken criminal justice system. Regrettably, Maryland has earned the dubious distinction of being the worst practitioner of mass incarceration in the nation – locking up the highest percentage […]
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Archbishop Naomi C. DuRant’s Altar Call
By Jannette J. Witmyer Special to the AFRO If your connection to Baltimore radio runs through R&B and gospel stations WSID, WEBB, and WBGR, then it’s quite likely that you’re familiar with the late Archbishop Naomi C. DuRant. Maybe you were one of the countless listeners who, through the years, started their day by responding […]
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Dr. Anne O. Emery, Dead at 93
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Dr. Anne Osborne Emery, one of the most beloved and venerated educators of the Baltimore City Public Schools has died. She was 93. According to a source close to Dr. Emery’s family, she died this morning Aug. 19. Her career in public school education spanned several decades from […]
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Talbot County Votes to Cling to Confederacy
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham Special to the AFRO In a move decried by activists as a step backwards, the Talbot County Council voted against a resolution that would have removed a controversial confederate monument from the courthouse lawn. The measure which called for the removal of the so-called “Talbot Boys” statue was defeated […]
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The American Non-Violent Protest Movement is Rooted In Baltimore
Originally Published January 11, 2018 By Sean Yoes The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which began Dec. 1955 propelled the boycott’s leader, 26-year old Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight and sparked the American civil rights movement. However, more than 20 years earlier Baltimore’s Black community organized protests to begin the eradication of one […]
