By Frances L. Murphy II Steps – they seemed to ascend all the way to the sky but in truth only to the third floor of 628 N. Eutaw Street in Baltimore. The great and small including such persons as Thurgood Marshall, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, President John Kennedy and his […]
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The Forgotten Freedom Rider
Originally published Jan. 15, 2005 By Sean Yoes AFRO Staff Editor Before Rosa Parks’ definitive act of civil disobedience in 1955, Irene Morgan bucked Jim Crow and, with the help of Thurgood Marshall, took her case to the Supreme Court and won. As a young man in Harlem of the 1940s, Stanley Kirkaldy experienced the […]
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Coppin President First to be Tested for COVID, Kicking-Off Free COVID-19 Testing
Coppin State University President Anthony Jenkins being COVID tested by nurse and CSU 2004 (BSN) and 2008 (MSN) graduate Darlene Hinds-Jackson, DNP, RN. Cars lined up to free COVID-19 testing for Coppin State University faculty, staff and students. Jeremy Andrews, a CSU plumber, gets tested. Joseph Manu, CSU junior and track team member, takes COVID […]
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The Roots of Student Nonviolent Protest in Baltimore
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com When the legendary civil rights warrior the Hon. John Robert Lewis died last month, his legacy of unselfish sacrifice on behalf of the disenfranchised resonated throughout not only the nation, but around the globe. A big part of Lewis’ legacy is connected to the early days of the […]
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Baltimore County Rec Councils Authorized to Hold Youth Sports in Fall with COVID-19 Safety Protocols
Baltimore County Rec Councils Authorized to Hold Youth Sports in Fall with COVID-19 Safety Protocols Plan for youth sports must follow requirements based on guidelines from CDC, County Health Officer TOWSON, MD — The Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks today announced that it will authorize rec councils to hold youth sports in the […]
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Our Best Leaders
By Savannah Wood AFRO Archive Director Dr. Martha S. Jones is a renowned historian, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and a prolific author. Forthcoming this fall is her new book, Vanguard: How Black Women […]
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The Great Debate: Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois
This timeline reflects the founding of some of the world’s oldest historically Black colleges and universities, otherwise known as HBCUs. In 1867, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Alabama State University, Barber-Scotia College, Fayetteville State University, Johnson C. Smith University, Saint Augustine’s University and Talladega College were founded in addition to Morgan State University, Howard […]
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The National Urban League
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com On August 13, the National Urban League released its 2020 State of Black America report, the 44th edition of the civil rights organization’s analysis of the plight of the Black community. In the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 165,000 Americans, with a disproportionate number […]
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The Legacy of CORE
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Walter P. Carter was the Baltimore chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), at the zenith of the group’s power and a giant of the Civil Rights Movement. His daughter State Sen. Jill P. Carter spoke to the AFRO about her father and the legacy of CORE. […]
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Bob Wallace Secures Spot on November Ballot & Names T.J. Smith as Campaign Advisor
Independent Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate Bob Wallace Secures Spot on Ballot in November General Election Independent Candidate Bob Wallace Earns Spot on Ballot and Announces T.J. Smith as Campaign Advisor Baltimore, MD – Independent Baltimore City Mayoral Candidate Bob Wallace today announced that he has officially secured a spot on the ballot in the November General […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Associated Black Charities Film Shows Structural Racism’s Impact on Baltimore’s Black Community
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While the American hustle suggests pulling oneself up by the bootstraps, Associated Black Charities’ (ABC) new film Structural Racism: A Baltimore History, reveals that African Americans can’t as easily achieve the “American Dream,” because of centuries of discriminatory laws and policies that still affect Charm City to this […]
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Mourning the Passing of Morgan Student Joseph Graham
It is with a heavy heart that we regretfully share the unfortunate news of the untimely passing a valued member of our Morgan family. MSU student, Joseph Graham, a rising sophomore pursuing an electrical engineering degree from the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering, was among the casualties of the widely reported gas explosion that took […]
