The creator of an underground video, which warned viewers to “stop snitching”, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 25 for his role in a racketeering conspiracy. Ronnie Thomas, 36, of Baltimore, created underground DVDs that discouraged witnesses from reporting crimes to the police. Police said the films contributed to the widespread use […]
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Steele Draws New Criticism for Afghanistan War Comments
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again in hot water, this time over comments he made about the U.S.’s role in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which he called, “a war of Obama’s choosing.” “This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in,” Steele said during a […]
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Unemployment Climbs for Black Men– Drops Nationwide
The U.S. saw mild improvements in the national unemployment rate last month, but the news is mixed for minorities who continue to be hit hard in the jobs arena, according to the Labor Department’s monthly joblessness report. Unemployment fell nationwide for the second straight month, declining to 9.5 percent from 9.7 percent in May, according […]
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Norton: Chicago Ruling “Vindicates District’s New Gun Laws”
The Supreme Court on June 28 struck down Chicago, Ill.’s strict anti-handgun legislation, but D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said the decision in fact sanctions Washington D.C.’s new and revised gun laws, created after the same court struck down the city’s more restrictive gun ban two years ago. The nation’s highest court struck down a […]
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D.C. Woman Withdraws Suit over Church’s Gay Marriage Ceremony– But Quits Church
After Yvonne Moore, a member of Covenant Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., sat through a same sex commitment ceremony in her church in 2007, she was angry. First, she filed a lawsuit. Then she left the congregation she has been a part of for nearly 40 years. “Why did I do it?” Moore said during […]
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HUD Grants $30 Million to 29 U.S. HIV-AIDS Housing Programs
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded $30.2 million to 29 HIV/AIDS housing programs across the nation, which it said would allow more than 1,000 low-income citizens living with the virus to maintain permanent housing. Over the next three years, the funds will also help provide permanent support for over 1,232 households, […]
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Leading Civil Rights Attorney, Activist William Taylor Dies
Civil rights attorney William Taylor, an avid supporter of education and social equality, died June 28 in Bethesda, Md. He was 78. Taylor’s career, which spanned more than four decades, began in 1954 when he worked as a lawyer on the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund. NAACP President Todd Benjamin Jealous labeled the attorney […]
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Local Student Rises to the Top of Class
Eric Charles Stewart Jr. recently graduated from Cross Country Elementary-Middle School, where he was the class valedictorian and received nine awards for academic excellence. Nearly half of Eric’s class was African American and 25 percent of the class will attend a magnet or academic high school in the fall.
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Baltimorean Receives ‘Ray of Hope’ Award
In a press release, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) announced Darryl A. Stokes, vice president of engineering and standards for BGE, as the 2010 recipient of the Ray of Hope award, which recognizes the academic and professional achievements of Black males. The award is presented annually on Father’s Day weekend by Black Professional Men […]
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Y of Central Maryland Seeks Volunteers
To better serve the community, particularly local youths, the Y of Central Maryland is seeking volunteers willing to serve as mentors. Y mentors work with children between the ages of 6 and 18 who have been identified as “at risk” and in need of additional adult support in their lives. According to a press release […]
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MSU Student Receives James H. Ashby Jr. Award of Excellence
Temitope Owoeye is the recent recipient of the James H. Ashby Jr. Award of Excellence, an award established this year in memory of James (Jim) Hubert Ashby Jr., a devoted husband, father, brother, son and friend who died suddenly on Nov. 27, 2009, in Randallstown, Md.? Jim received his early education in the public and […]
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Morgan State Professor’s Historic Graduation from Pa. School
Dr. An’Nita C. Moore of Baltimore recently completed her final oral doctoral defense at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Moore is the first African American to graduate from Drexel’s doctorate of nursing practices program. She is currently an assistant professor at Morgan State University.