Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u With the all-important primary election in Baltimore coming in April, we continue our conversations with candidates for Baltimore City Council. Tonight we speak with Jason Pyeron, candidate for the 12th District, Richard White, candidate for the 6th District and Mark Parker, candidate for the 1st District. These stories and […]
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Tribal King in South Africa Faces Jail Time
In this Dec. 14, 2013 file photo AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo attends the state funeral of former South African President Nelson Mandela in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo faces lengthy jail time after being convicted of arson, kidnapping and other crimes in a case that highlighted the tension […]
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At 80, Harvard’s W.J. Wilson, Scholar of Race and Class, Looks Ahead
In this Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015, photo, American sociologist William Julius Wilson poses for a photograph in Bangkok, Thailand. Wilson, 80, spoke with The Associated Press about his decades of thinking and writing about race, class, education and poverty and about how his ideas echo through todayÂ’s news stories, whether on income inequality or the […]
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Boko Haram Attacks Northeast Nigerian City, Town, 80 Killed
Victims of a Boko Haram attack wait for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death […]
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D.C. Mayor Bowser Reflects on First Year in Office
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (Twitter Photo) Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that 2015 was a good year for her administration, but she wants to do more for District residents in 2016. In a wide-ranging interview with the AFRO on Dec. 21, Bowser discussed her initiative to completely end homelessness in the District in the near future, […]
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Sanders Meets with Washington Religious Leaders, Urges Tolerance, Religious Respect
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is a candidate for the 2016 presidential nomination. (Courtesy Photo) Democratic presidential contender U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders highlighted the importance of American tolerance of diverse religions and ethnicities at a recent meeting of religious leaders in Washington, D.C. Sanders met with two Muslim clerics, Imam Talib Shareef, president of the Nation’s […]
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Urban Alliance Program Jump Starts Urban High School Students Toward Careers
Many urban high schools have the reputation of lacking the resources to prepare their students for college or the professional world. Urban Alliance is one organization that hopes to increase the number of students who do make it out of those schools and into their desired professions. Urban Alliance is a year-long program that helps […]
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Baltimore Repaying Police Agencies $1.8M for Riot Control
The city of Baltimore says it expects to reimburse other local police and fire agencies a total of $1.8 million for assisting during unrest following the death of Freddie Gray last spring. Spokesman Howard Libit said Thursday the tally includes requests that have been paid and those still under review. He says he expects all […]
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Report: Nigeria Soldiers Killed Hundreds of Islamic Shiites in Raid
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian soldiers fired on unarmed Islamic Shiite children with no provocation in raids that killed hundreds of the minority group in the West African nation, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Nigeria shiites muslim took to the street to protest and demanded the release of Shiite leader Ibraheem Zakzaky in Kano, Nigeria, […]
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Christians in Bethlehem Mark Christmas Amid Violence
Christian pilgrims from Nigeria pray inside the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday […]
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Obama’s, Biden’s Favorite Holiday Spotify Tunes
HONOLULU (AP) — Ever wonder what music gets President Barack Obama in the Christmas mood? Sign in to Spotify to find out. Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and their wives on Wednesday released matching lists of their favorite holiday songs on the popular music streaming service, just in time for Christmas. Topping the list for […]
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Tonight: AFRO’s First Edition with Sean Yoes, Wednesday, December 23.
Listen at WEAA Live Stream: http://amber.streamguys.com.4020/live.m3u Our regular contributors Taya Graham and Stephen Janis (The Mod Squad), of The Real News Network take a look back at 2015; one of the most tumultuous years in Baltimore’s history. Topics include: The death of Freddie Gray and the subsequent uprising, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake, the city’s […]
