By Lisa Snowden-McCray, Special to the AFRO Matt Prestbury says when he started gathering together groups of Black fathers, it was because he was a newly-single dad, looking for other people like him. “I began to look around for outlets and opportunities to bring fathers together, and I began to create them because there wasn’t really […]
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Baltimore Teacher Hopes to Take Music Students on World Tour
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Singing Sensations has been invited to South Africa this summer. Offered a chance to perform during Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday celebration, the Baltimore choir group aims to tour in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. The Singing Sensations program is now in its 14th year. Dr. Hollie Hood-Mincey, who […]
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Celebrating Black Fatherhood
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been petrified of being a father. Between all the talk about Black men being absent from the household, being wife beaters and being unable to provide or be emotionally available to their families due to the difficulty of walking through this world […]
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San Francisco Set to Get First Black Woman Mayor
By The Associated Press London Breed was poised to become the first African-American woman elected to lead San Francisco following a hard-fought campaign when a former state senator conceded and congratulated her June 13, more than a week after the election. Breed, president of the Board of Supervisors, was leading Leno by fewer than 1,900 […]
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Illinois School to Drop Woodrow Wilson from Name
By The Associated Press School officials in central Illinois have decided to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from an elementary school and instead honor the area’s first Black female doctor. The Peoria Public Schools board voted Monday to rename Woodrow Wilson Primary School after Peoria-native Dr. Maude Sanders. Woodrow Wilson Primary School in Illinois is now […]
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Fraternity Members Suspended for Video with Racist Slurs
By The Associated Press Syracuse University suspended 15 members of a fraternity following the release of a video showing pledges using racial slurs and simulating a sexual assault of a disabled person, lawyers for the students said June 8. Theta Tau fraternity members were informed by the school Tuesday that they faced indefinite suspensions of […]
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Dorothy Cotton, Civil Rights Pioneer and MLK Colleague, Dies
By The Associated Press Dorothy Cotton, who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., taught nonviolence to demonstrators before marches and sometimes calmed tensions by singing church hymns, has died. She was 88. Cotton died June 10 at the Kendal at Ithaca retirement community in New York, said Jared Harrison, a close friend […]
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Supreme Court Allows Ohio, Other State Voter Purges; Civil Rights Groups Alarmed
By The Associated Press States can target people who haven’t cast ballots in a while in efforts to purge their voting rolls, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that has drawn wide attention amid stark partisan divisions and the approach of the 2018 elections. By a 5-4 vote that split the conservative and […]
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Maurice Granton, Jr. Shot by Chicago Police had Been Shot Days Earlier
By The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A 24-year-old Black man who was fatally shot this week by a Chicago police officer had suffered a gunshot wound just days earlier. The Chicago Tribune reports that Maurice Granton Jr. had refused to cooperate with police after he was treated at an area hospital for a graze […]
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Chicago Police Investigate Officers’ Handcuffing of Boy, 10
By The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are investigating an incident in which officers handcuffed a 10-year-old boy while he was being questioned about a gun, and the child’s family says it was a case of mistaken identity. Cellphone video recorded last Friday shows the boy in front of a patrol car with […]
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Chicago Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Black Man Running Away
By The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer fatally shot a 24-year-old Black man who authorities said pulled a gun while running away, prompting questions from the man’s family about why the encounter turned deadly. Sgt. Rocco Alioto said the “armed confrontation” Wednesday evening on the city’s South Side happened as officers […]
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After Much-Hyped Commutation, Memphis Woman Begins New Life
By ADRIAN SAINZ, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The hype over the commutation of her life sentence by President Donald Trump at the request of Kim Kardashian West has started to die down. Now, Alice Marie Johnson turns to a much harder task: beginning a normal life outside of prison. Johnson wasted little time […]