Enough is enough, says Rev. Dr. R.B. Holmes, noting the list of young Black people dead or in jail in states where “stand your ground” laws are in place. “Our young Black boys are being senselessly killed just for being Black teenagers,” said Holmes, who on March 25 announced the formation of the National Pastor’s […]
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Baltimore’s State Center Project Poised to Move Forward
On March 27, the state Court of Appeals dismissed a lower court’s ruling that upended all-important state contracts with the developer of the $1.5 billion redevelopment of State Center, a potential economic boon for the West Baltimore community surrounding it. The State Center Project had languished for years due mainly to a lawsuit (funded partly […]
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Conservative Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Blasts Black Caucus Members as ‘Race Hustlers’
Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly had some harsh words for Congressional Black Caucus members this week in response to CBC members’ recent attack on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). In his March 24 “The O’Reilly Factor” broadcast, O’Reilly supported Ryan’s latest apparent put-down of Blacks and came out firing against Ryan detractors, calling Rep. Barbara Lee […]
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Prince George’s County Non-Profits Receive $152,316 in United Way Grants
The United Way of the National Capital Area awarded 14 grants totaling $152, 316 to Prince George’s County non-profit organizations, the United Way NCA announced recently. The funds came through designations to the Prince George’s County Community Impact Fund in United Way NCA’s annual workplace giving campaign. “I feel great about awarding these checks to […]
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African American Mental Illness Targeted at Baltimore Conference
Baltimore’s Black Mental Health Alliance (BMHA), in conjunction with the American Psychiatric Association and Baltimore City Healthy Start, will conduct a day-long conference April 11 to spur awareness about mental health issues in the African-American community. This conference, titled Black and Blue: The State of African American Mental Health, will be held at the Mt. […]
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Cheatham’s Campaign Slammed By Posters
Marvin “Doc” Cheatham stared in disbelief at the posters he held in his hands. “We have taken down close to 80 posters,” Cheatham told the AFRO. “There were blue posters posted on top of my posters that read: Do Not Vote for Marvin ‘Doc’ CHEAT HAM.” On March 18, Cheatham noticed his flyers – strategically […]
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Lt. Col Melvin Russell Leads Baltimore Community Policing Effort
As violence and fear encroach upon schools and shopping malls even in the sleepiest of Baltimore’s suburbs, so has the stark reality that crime is everywhere, and that faith leaders and communities must abandon their own apathy first in order to change anything. Gone are the years of so-called zero tolerance policing during the 1990s […]
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A Great Shout at Carter Memorial
Dr. Tony Torain served as worship leader at the gathering to celebrate the new home of Carter Memorial Church of God in Christ, March 15, at what used to be St. Peter’s, the city’s second oldest Catholic church, at 13 S. Poppleton Street in Baltimore. Elder Carl A. Pierce Sr., senior pastor, told the AFRO […]
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Exhibit of Long-lost Renoir Opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Renoir painting returns to public display this weekend for the first time in more than 60 years since it was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting “On the Shore of the Seine,” dated about 1879, became the subject of a dramatic legal dispute after a Virginia woman […]
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Gray Addresses Barriers for Returning Citizens at Town Hall
The Reentry Network for Returning Citizens hosted a town hall on housing, March 15 at St. Elizabeth East Gateway Pavilion in Ward 8. Courtney Stewart, chairman of the Reentry Network for Returning Citizens, assembled community leaders to engage in a dialogue with District residents on housing and employment barriers faced by people returning home from […]
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Towson University’s Debate Team Claims Historic Win 1st Black Women’s Team to Win
Towson University Debate Team members Ameena Ruffin ‘15 and Korey Johnson ’16 won the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championship, March 24, at Indiana University. “Ruffin and Johnson are the first African American women’s team to win a national tournament,” according to Mike Davis, CEDA president. “No African American woman has ever won our […]
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Gaithersburg Medical Student Wins Fellowship to Work in Ghana
Alia Sommerville, a fourth-year medical student at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM), has been awarded a scholarship from National Medical Fellowships, Inc. (NMF), a non-profit organization that advocates for increasing the number of underrepresented minority physicians in the United States. The $5,000 award was made possible by The Lincoln Fund, a long-time supporter of […]
