By Michelle Richardson, Special to the AFRO Feb. 10, U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Momodu Gondo, a former member of the notorious Gun Trace Task Force to 10 years in prison for his involvement in a myriad of crimes while a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officer. “When I balance Mr. Gondo’s conduct against […]
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Pastor of Ray of Hope Baptist Church Dies
By AFRO Staff The Rev. Charles M. Franklin Jr., pastor of Ray of Hope Baptist Church in Northeast Baltimore, died of a heart attack at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 47. He died after presiding over regular Sunday morning services at Ray of Hope Church on Sunday, Feb. 10. Rev. Franklin was born in Stamford, […]
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Morning Star Baptist Hosts Black Business Expo
By Joi Thomas, Special to the AFRO Black History Month is an ideal time to support our community businesses. On Feb. 23 and Feb. 24, Morning Star Baptist Church in Woodlawn, will bring Black business to the forefront with their Black Business Seminar and Expo. The two-day event will welcome business owners from an array of […]
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Baltimore Blight: Is this your house?
505 Edmonson (Photo Credit: Sean Yoes)
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Black History Month is Shared in Many Ways Hello everyone, Happy Valentine’s Day weekend. This is a “Sweetheart Weekend.” This is also Black History Month and people all over the community and the country find ways to represent that. Here in Baltimore Lexington Market is doing a month long celebration, “Salute to African American Culture.” […]
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Morgan State University Awarded $1.6 Million Base 11 Grant to Launch Student Rocketry Program
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND — The nonprofit Base 11 today announced that Morgan State University is the winner of a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant, which will fund a state-of-the-art rocketry lab and launch a student rocketry team. Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin was on hand to formally present the check to and inspire university students who were in […]
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Breaking News: Harrison to Meet With Mosby About Marijuana Policy
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com This morning (Feb. 11) during the official introduction press conference of Michael Harrison, the man selected by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh to be the city’s next police commissioner, the acting commissioner made some news concerning the State’s Attorney’s policy on marijuana possession prosecutions. Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby recently […]
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Universities in Maryland Reckon with Past Yearbook Photos
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — Universities in Maryland are now grappling with racist images in yearbooks from the 1960s and 1970s. The Baltimore Sun reported Saturday that a fraternity page from a 1970 University of Maryland yearbook shows members imitating a lynching. University of Maryland yearbook photo of a fraternity in blackface. (Screengrab from news […]
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Police: Man Who Shot Hall Monitor Now Linked to Homicide
BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Baltimore say a man who shot and injured a hall monitor at a high school has been linked to an unsolved homicide from November. Baltimore police said in a statement Saturday that 25-year old Neil Davis now faces charges that stem from two separate shootings. Suspect, Neil Davis, charged in […]
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Officials: Maryland Student Posts Racial Slur after Basketball Loss
By The Associated Press School officials say a Maryland high school student used a racist slur in a social media message after his school’s basketball team lost to a team comprised mostly of Black players. The Capitol Gazette reports a letter sent to parents of students at Broadneck High School informed them of the Snapchat message […]
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Shooting at Douglass High School Leaves One Injured
By Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO Questions are being raised after an armed 25-year-old man was able to enter Frederick Douglass High School in Northwest Baltimore and shoot a 56-year-old hall monitor Feb. 8. The shooting occurred around noon when the assailant walked into the building and was confronted by the victim, who was shot […]
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Men’s Self-Care in Baltimore
By J. K. Schmid, AFRO Staff Randy Lewis can’t say for certain when the new trend of men’s self-care took off, but he’s loving being in front of it. “I always took care of myself, always groomed myself,” Lewis told the AFRO. “I saw that a lot of men weren’t. Did they think that men […]