By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com For over twenty years, Robert Kelly, better known as R. Kelly, has been engrossed in controversy regarding crude behavior, to say the least, with young women- more specifically, teenage girls. The R&B singer, who sang the chart-topping hit, I Believe I Can Fly, has spent almost 30 years in […]
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Cosby Verdict Met with Conflicting Emotions
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK, AP National Writer It is difficult to overstate the pride, admiration and sense of ownership many Black Americans felt watching Bill Cosby at the height of his career in the 1980s and ’90s. As Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Cosby starred in a top-rated network sitcom about a loving, successful Black couple and their […]
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Neville Brothers Saxophonist Charles Neville Dead at 79
The Associated Press Orleans-born saxophone player Charles Neville, who once backed up B.B. King and later gained fame with the Neville Brothers band and their rollicking blend of funk, jazz and rhythm and blues, has died. He was 79. His death came April 26, months after he disclosed he was fighting pancreatic cancer. In a […]
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Lynching Memorial and Museum in Alabama Draw Crowds, Tears
By BETH J. HARPAZ, AP Travel Editor Tears and expressions of grief met the opening of the nation’s first memorial to the victims of lynching April 26 in Alabama. Hundreds lined up in the rain to get a first look at the memorial and museum in Montgomery. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates 4,400 […]
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Hundreds Pay Respects for Woman Slain in Waffle House Attack
By SHEILA BURKE, The Associated Press Hundreds of people thronged a Tennessee church on April 27, some hugging and crying, as they paid their respects for a college student killed in the weekend shooting rampage at a Waffle House. The line of mourners waiting to give their condolences to the family of DeEbony Groves, 21, was […]
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MSNBC Host Joy Reid Entangled in Hacker, Homophobic Slurs Scandal
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. editor, mgreen@afro.com Time traveling hacks may have made perfect sense for retroactive mayhem in the movie “Back to the Future,” yet few people believed MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid’s statement that an “external party accessed and manipulated material” from her now obsolete blog, The Reid Report. The homophobic posts were uncovered by Wayback […]
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Waffle House Hero Raises Over $150K for Victims
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Confronted with a murderous, probably deranged gunman wielding an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle, James Shaw Jr. kept calm. And, when the moment was right, he rushed Travis Reinking and wrestled his weapon from him after he had already gunned down four people. It probably would have been many more if […]
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Speaking at UMD, Rev. Jackson Vows to Continue the Fight
By Brianna Rhodes, Special to the AFRO Civil rights figure, Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered the closing remarks at the University of Maryland, College Park second annual Social Justice Day event April 24. The campus-wide, day-long event allowed for students, faculty and staff to collaborate and share ideas on important causes. Jackson spoke on topics such as […]
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Inside MPD’s Efforts to Teach Cops Black History
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO Words matter and are not to be taken lightly, University of the District of Columbia Professor Bernard “Bernie” Demczuk told nearly two dozen Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recruits on their mandatory Black History tour along U Street April 20. In his opinion when people say “riot,” they’re talking […]
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Students Talk Gun Violence in Communities of Color
Aya Elamroussi, Special to the AFRO Washington D.C. high school students gathered last week in McKinley Technology High School in Northeast to discuss the issue of gun violence. The Interschool Seminar, titled Student Voices on Gun Violence & Social Justice, comprised mainly of five student-led discussions. The AFRO observed a student-facilitated discussion on gun violence in […]
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Senator Tim Scott Talks New Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Communities of Color
By Lauren E. Williams, Special to the AFRO “If there is no succession plan, there will be no success.” U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) said at a moderated session during a Washington, D.C. stop of his National Opportunity Tour on April 25 at the Washington Court Hotel. The session was moderated by national syndicated news […]
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Black Women’s Health Week Raises National Awareness
By Christina Sturdivant Sani, Special to the AFRO “This is an important initiative that we should all support and get behind,” tweeted rapper Common on April 17, in support of the first-ever Black Maternal Health Week. From April 11-17, hundreds of people convened in venues across the country and took to social media to raise awareness […]