By AFRO Staff In celebration of National Voter Registration Day today, 75 students from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women were newly registered to vote! This was part of a larger goal set by the League of Women Voters to register 400 students on National Voter Registration Day. Vote Mob was also there to […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, I hope everything is well with you. I have been a little under the weather with a stomach spasm I can’t seem to get pass, but I am “Rambling Rose” so I have to keep going. I had to spend one day and night in St. […]
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Baltimore Clergy “To Resurrect The City”
By Kevin Daniels, Special to the AFRO Recently, the Ministers Conference of Baltimore and Vicinity (MCBV), organized over 111 years ago with more than 100 member churches across 14 districts in the city, launched a major initiative during a press conference with Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young, major partners and key stakeholders, “…And the Church Shall Lead […]
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Candidate Charged With Campaign Violations
By AFRO Staff The Office of the State Prosecutor announces that Richard Parker, a candidate for Baltimore City Sheriff back in 2014, was recently charged with filing a campaign finance report with false and misleading information and signing an electronic submission of one of his campaign forms without express consent of his treasurer. The charges […]
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Kampala: The Party Capital of East Africa
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Disclaimer: In my other life I am a House Music impresario and my foundation in House was built at two legendary dance clubs: Odell’s and Paradox. I’ve also clubbed extensively in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; my pedigree is inescapable. Therefore, I may not be the most forgiving judge […]
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Baltimore: ‘Trump’s The Real Rat!’
By Jessica Dortch, Afro Staff, jdortch@afro.com There is nothing subtle about President Donald Trump, and his first visit to Baltimore, since his Twitter attack against the city, was anything but that. Several streets were closed in Harbor East on Sept. 12 in preparation for the president’s arrival at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel later that evening, but […]
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Anton Black: One Year After
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, Special to the AFRO It’s been exactly a year since Anton Black crossed the Choptank River bridge with his cousin during a carefree day spent wandering around Greensboro, Md. in September 2018. But the concrete crossing that stretches across the river that dissects the small Eastern Shore Town is […]
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THE RUN DOWN
By BE INSPIRED GLOBAL / AFRO.COM Host MICHA GREEN gives us the RUN DOWN on the happenings within the Congressional Black Caucus. #CBCFALC19 #AfroNews #BlackMediaAuthority #BeInspiredGlobal
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Maryland Communities and D.C. Receive Youth Homelessness Grants
By GABRIELLE WANNEH, Capital News Service Baltimore, Prince George’s County and the District of Columbia are among 23 communities receiving a total of $75 million in federal funds to combat youth homelessness. The $75 million was awarded as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program, which started in 2016. The […]
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Baltimore Organization Helps Fathers
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The Center for Urban Families acts as a leading voice in the national conversation on responsible fatherhood and an advocate for child support reform in Maryland. It also counts as a resource that helps nonprofits across the country strengthen low-income families and a support network for Baltimore’s most […]
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The AFRO in Africa: Jet Lag and a Crash Course on Kampala
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Traveling for the first time to the first continent was physically brutal. Operating on virtually no sleep, I felt almost every one of the nearly 9,000 miles from West Baltimore to East Africa. Fatigue fell upon me like a brick house, particularly, during the final long stretch of the journey, […]
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Sneed Considers Council President
By Stephan Janis and Taya Graham The Baltimore City Council may be touted as a more progressive body than its predecessors, but from a gender perspective it is predominantly male. While that imbalance seems far from changing in the near future, one of the few women with a seat on the city’s legislative body is […]