By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, water makes up 92 percent of a watermelon’s content. One of the most nourishing foods available, watermelon hydrates on a cellular level—meaning the trillions of cells contained in the body are effectively nourished. Experts maintain that you can “eat your water” […]
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Baltimore record store hosts Young Thug album release party
By: Asia Alexander Special to the AFRO Rapper Jeffery Williams, commonly known as “Young Thug,” from Atlanta, organized thirteen album release parties for his new album Business is Business with one of those gatherings at the renowned Baltimore record store The Sound Garden on June 29. The Sound Garden was formed in 1993 by Bryan […]
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Commission on African American History and Culture names new chair
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Writer, abrent@afro.com The Commission on African American History and Culture (CAAHC) has a new chair in charge. Edwin T. Johnson, Ph.D stepped into his role as chair of the CAAHC on July 1. Johnson also serves as the university historian and special assistant to the provost at Morgan State University. […]
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New Song Academy students win $13,000 to address food deserts
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Four eighth-grade students from New Song Academy recently won big at the Philanthropy Tank Finals Event in Pikesville, Md. Aniya Ponton, Samahj Chestnut, Ryeona Watson and Logan Reynolds received $13,000 for their business pitch, an initiative to improve access to healthy food choices, called Bmore Fresh. The social […]
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Nine shot in downtown Cleveland, one man seriously wounded; suspect sought
The Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — An early morning shooting on July 9 in a nightclub area of downtown Cleveland sent nine people to the hospital, but no fatalities were reported, authorities said. Police said preliminary information indicates that someone opened fire toward a group of people in the Warehouse District shortly before 2:30 a.m. […]
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New museum in Alabama tells history of last known slave ship to US and its survivors
The Associated Press MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A museum that tells the history of the Clotilda — the last ship known to transport Africans to the American South for enslavement — opened July 8, exactly 163 years after the vessel arrived in Alabama’s Mobile Bay. Ceremonies dedicating the $1.3 million Africatown Heritage House and “Clotilda: […]
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Airstrike in Sudanese city kills at least 22, officials say, amid fighting between rival generals
By Samy MagdyThe Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — An airstrike in a Sudanese city on July 8 killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest air attacks yet in the three months of fighting between the country’s rival generals. The assault took place in the Dar es Salaam neighborhood in […]
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Baltimore and Philadelphia police detain suspects in recent unrelated mass shootings
By: DaQuan Lawrence, AFRO International Writer DLawrence@afro.com Law enforcement officers in Baltimore and Philadelphia arrested individuals suspected of involvement in mass shootings that occurred around the Fourth of July holiday weekend. On July 7, members of Baltimore Police Department’s (BPD) Homicide and SWAT team arrested a 17-year-old male, after obtaining a search warrant and examining […]
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Elevated mortgage rates are leading to sharply higher monthly payments even as home prices ease
By Alex Veiga, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Would-be homebuyers are willing to take on sharply higher mortgage payments, even as home prices have begun to pull back this year. The median monthly payment listed on applications for home purchase loans jumped 14.1% in May from a year earlier to an all-time high […]
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Texas Walmart shooter gets 90 consecutive life sentences and may still face death penalty
By Morgan Lee and Paul J. Weber, The Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A White gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced July 7 to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death […]
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An AFRO update on Mayor Scott’s Squeegee Collaborative
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com For decades Baltimore community leaders have tried to solve the tension between squeegee workers on the corner and residents concerned about their safety. The situation escalated last year at the Inner Harbor, when a dispute with a teen squeegee worker led to the shooting death of 48-year-old Timothy […]
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The Moore Report: Christine King Farris a unique member of a revolutionary family
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a middle child in the birth order of children from the union of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King, Jr.’s older sister, Christine King Farris, died on June 29, 2023, in the city of their birth, Atlanta, Georgia. In some ways she […]
