By The Associated Press Rapper Meek Mill said Wednesday that now that he’s out of prison, a lot of people facing similar battles with the criminal justice system are depending on him. “I got a lot of responsibility,” he said in an interview with Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. He said the men counting […]
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Cosby Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Woman
By The Associated Press Bill Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. A jury outside Philadelphia convicted the “Cosby Show” star of three counts of aggravated indecent assault on Thursday. The guilty verdict came less than a year after another jury deadlocked […]
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Are You Your Sister’s Keeper?
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Finger sandwiches, fruit tarts and big hats were on display at the second Annual AFRO High Tea April 21, yet the tea tradition was not the focus of the event, but rather the underscore of a powerful message about women’s empowerment. The theme of the event, “We Too Support […]
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Barbara Bush Remembered
George H.W. Bush, front center, and past presidents and first ladies Laura Bush, from left, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and current first lady Melania Trump at the funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush, in Houston. Barbara Bush died April 17 at the age of 92. (Paul […]
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Turning the Memphis Sanitation Strike into Art
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Angela Wilson, playwright and founder and president of the AngelWing Project, wrote and directed a play about the 1968 Memphis sanitation worker’s strike that will debut this weekend in Anne Arundel County. “Tears of the Soul” tells the story of a Black family in 1968’s Memphis, during the […]
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Jury to Deliberate after Cosby Painted as Predator, Victim
By The Associated Press Jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial are poised to start deliberating after a marathon day of closing arguments that portrayed the comedian both as a calculating predator who’s finally being brought to justice and the victim of a multimillion-dollar frame-up by a “pathological liar.” The seven men and five women […]
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In Closing, Defense Calls Cosby Accuser ‘Pathological Liar’
By The Associated Press Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged a jury Tuesday to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they said were based on “flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence,” arguing he was falsely accused by a “pathological liar” scheming for a big payday. The first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era was nearly in […]
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Club Owner Apologizes After Calling Police on Black Women Golfers
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Five Black women out for a round of golf at a club in the midst of what some describe as “Trump country,” claim they were discriminated against by White members of the club for allegedly playing “too slow.” According to the Associated Press, three of the women in the group […]
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Greeks Raise Funds for Delta Member Killed at Waffle House
By AFRO Staff DeEbony Groves, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, was set to graduate from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee next month. Instead she and three other people were gunned down over the weekend allegedly by a semi-naked man while at a Waffle House. DeEbony Groves, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, […]
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Hero Saves Lives after Waffle House Murders
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com A White gunman murdered four people of color at a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville, Tennessee April 22 and the death toll could have been much higher if not for the heroic actions of a young Black man who happened to be at the restaurant. James Shaw (pictured) sprang into […]
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Should Jack Johnson be Pardoned?
By Perry Green and Stephen D. Riley, AFRO Sports Desk Laws change and people change. The fact that society still holds a criminal conviction over the head of famed boxer Jack Johnson just doesn’t sit right with some people, especially his family. Johnson, the first ever Black heavyweight champion, was a magnet for controversy before he […]
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Syracuse Fraternity Permanently Expelled over Racist Video
The Associated Press Syracuse University announced April 21 that it has permanently expelled a fraternity over an offensive video that fraternity members say was intended as satire. Chancellor Kent Syverud called the Theta Tau video “racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, ableist and sexist” in a video posted on the university’s website. He said disciplinary actions against the […]