By AFRO Staff Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott has reported that under his presidency, the City Council has come in $1 million under budget for fiscal year 2020. “After an unexpected transition, ransomware attack, and other unforeseen circumstances, I’m proud that we can still be responsible with our resources and find savings in our […]
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NAACP Working To Move Headquarters To Nation’s Capital
By Associated Press The NAACP is working with the District of Columbia to move its headquarters from Baltimore to Washington, the civil rights organization and Mayor Muriel Bowser announced June 29. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said in a news release it has signed a letter of intent with the […]
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From The Publisher: We.Are.Still.Here
“December 23, 1909 My dear Mr. Murphy: I have just read your very generous editorial bearing upon my new book, “The Story of the Negro.” I thank you for all that you have said. Booker T. Washington If the spirit moves you at some time, I wish you might say a word in your paper […]
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David N. Maine, MD Becomes President & CEO Of Mercy Health Services
(Baltimore, MD – July 6th, 2020) – David N. Maine, M.D. is the new President & CEO of Mercy Health Services (MHS), effective July 1st, 2020. In January 2020, the Mercy Health Services Board of Trustees named Dr. Maine as Mercy’s future President & CEO following Thomas R. Mullen’s decision to retire after 28 years […]
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THE RUN DOWN – August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith
By AFRO.COM / BE INSPIRED GLOBAL Host Micha Green touches on the murky relationship between August Alsina and Jada Pinkett Smith and the trending stories in this weeks AFRO American Newspaper.
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As City Reopens Officials Push Safety
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Summer is officially here, the Fourth of July weekend is underway and stores shelves are filled with decorations and foods for people to have events and cookouts. However, the COVID-19 pandemic continues and local officials are warning residents to continue to remain safe despite the feel-good time […]
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Comprehensive Services Key In Deterring Violence, Crime and Negative Interactions With Police
By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Lamont Crooks could be anywhere when the call comes. Somewhere in his West Baltimore community a conflict will reach a boiling point; a conflict with the potential to turn deadly, like hundreds of conflicts do each year in his city. He knows it is coming. In fact, he […]
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Parade of Hearses
You may have seen the long line of hearse riding down west North Avenue headed east on Friday, June 27, 2020 at approximately 6:15 p.m. in Baltimore, MD, but let’s talk about the reason for the caravan. Harri Close, President, National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association (NFDM), a Black Funeral Directors and Mortician Association, organized […]
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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19
The AFRO spoke with F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Soringboard Community Services, formerly known as Family and Children Services of Central Maryland. By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Black Americans and other people of color continue to suffer more in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most deadly global pandemics […]
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Klan Cops and `The Wilmington Massacre’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com In Wilmington, N.C. recently it was revealed some White members of the Wilmington Police Department are just itching for America’s mythical race war — much ballyhooed by some for decades — to begin. “We are just going to go out and just start slaughtering them f—ing ni—-s,” said […]
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Two Arrested In Fatal Stabbing of 67-year-old
By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO Two men have been charged in the robbery and fatal stabbing of a 67-year-old man at a bus stop early Sunday morning said Baltimore Police. Kenneth Smith, 61, of Baltimore and Brelan Handy, 27, of the 2600 block of Woodhill Drive, Glen Burnie, are both charged with first […]
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Commentary/Opinion: Atlas Must Go/ #CancelAtlas
By Sen. Jill P. Carter As a child, I awoke some mornings to news that police had arrested my father, Walter P. Carter, for sitting in protest in restaurants and apartment buildings that refused to serve and house Black people. Even after the passage of laws ending legal segregation, a fair number of private, white-owned […]
