By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com While the rest of the nation seems engrossed by the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump, a group of 27 lawmakers – including Democratic Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-4) – wants answers from the administration regarding how the funding for the border wall construction is affecting the […]
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Mfume for the 7th Congressional District
By AFRO Staff The death of Maryland’s venerable 7th District Congressman Elijah E. Cummings in October created a void many argue will never be adequately filled. His political career, which began in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1986 and ended as Chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, which played an integral role in […]
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AFRO Wins FB Journalism Grant
By AFRO Staff The Facebook Journalism Project and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism recently announced 30 additional recipients of Community Network grants; one of them being the AFRO American Newspaper. News organizations will use these grants to support projects aimed at building community and new paths to sustainability in local news. Each Community Network applicant […]
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Gianna Bryant, 13, Was Going To Carry On A Basketball Legacy
By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Basketball Writer She had next. Her name was Gianna Maria Onore Bryant. The world, now and forever, knows her as Gigi. Her dad, Kobe Bryant, called her Mambacita. He was Mamba, of course, and she was going to be basketball’s female version of him. She was going to play at Connecticut […]
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Crews Work to Recover Remains at Site of Kobe Bryant’s Crash
By STEFANIE DAZIO, Associated Press CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Coroner’s officials worked to recover victims’ remains Monday from the hillside outside Los Angeles where a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed in weather so foggy that local police departments had grounded their own choppers. About 20 investigators were on the scene where everyone […]
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The Latest: 9 Dead in Helicopter Crash That Killed Kobe Bryant
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the death of retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant (all times local): CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a remote, steep hillside in Southern California on Sunday, his sudden death […]
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Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old Daughter and 7 Others Killed in California Chopper Crash
By STEPHANIE DAZIO, Associated Press (Updated 01/26/2020) – NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California on Jan. 26, his sudden death at age 41 touching off an outpouring of grief for a star whose celebrity […]
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‘Africa’s Richest Woman’ Now a Formal Suspect in Graft Probe
By The Associated Press Africa’s reputed richest woman is a formal suspect in an investigation into mismanagement and the siphoning off of funds during her time with Angola’s state-run oil company, the country’s attorney general announced Jan. 22. The remarks by Helder Pitta Gros to reporters in the capital, Luanda, come days after a global […]
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Reaction to the Death of Retired NBA Superstar Kobe Bryant
By The Associated Press Reaction from the basketball world and beyond on the death of retired NBA superstar Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash on Sunday at age 41: “Kobe was not only an icon in the sports arena, he was a man of the world and touched so many lives and communities in the […]
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Texas High School Bars Student Who Won’t Cut Dreadlocks
By The Associated Press A Black Texas high school student won’t be allowed to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks, his family says. Deandre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu in Southeast Texas, has had dreadlocks for years and says it’s part of […]
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Mississippi Marker Will Honor Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer
By The Associated Press A historical marker in Mississippi will commemorate the legacy of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Research for the project was led by a Mississippi Valley State University student and a professor who taught him, the Greenwood Commonwealth reported. Fannie Lou Hamer. As the spokeswoman for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, […]
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Archived Photos Rekindle Need to Keep MLK’s Legacy Alive
By Nick Robertson The Associated Press/Savannah Morning News As Savannah Morning News photo chief Steve Bisson worked through a half-century-old box of negatives to catalog and scan, he made a discovery. Submerged within the newspaper’s old photo files, 14 negatives provided documentation of two Savannah appearances by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. […]