By AFRO Staff Fans of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) from around the nation converged on Baltimore this week for the 2023 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament. HBCU athletes, cheerleaders and mascots left it all on the court as they faced off with some of the country’s top athletes.
Category: NEWS
Posted inCoronavirus
The pandemic missing: The kids who didn’t go back to school
By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS and SHARON LURYE, Associated Press She’d be a senior right now, preparing for graduation in a few months, probably leading her school’s modern dance troupe and taking art classes. Instead, Kailani Taylor-Cribb hasn’t taken a single class in what used to be her high school since the height of the coronavirus […]
Posted inBaltimore News
The Moore Report: Hard to keep track: too many teenagers are being shot or killed in Baltimore
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Perhaps it was an omen of things to come when 17-year-old D’Asia Garrison became the first murder victim in Baltimore in 2023, bringing in a new year with another horribly sad statistic. In the week of February 12-18 of this very year there were seven teenagers […]
Posted inMaryland Government
Gov. Wes Moore honors Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman and Thurgood Marshall with Civil Rights Heroes Day
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com Governor Wes Moore proclaimed Feb. 20, 2023, as Civil Rights Heroes Day in Maryland. The Moore-Miller administration chose to honor the date of the death of Frederick Douglass, a Maryland-born former slave and author, to signal Maryland’s commitment to promoting his legacy. “Our nation’s civil rights leaders’ legacies […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Innovation Works hosts game night with Lawrence T. Brown to teach people about Baltimore’s structural inequities
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Baltimore-based Innovation Works, which works to create sustainable neighborhood economies in Baltimore City, is hosting a free game night led by equity scientist and author, Lawrence T. Brown, on Feb. 23 at Baltimore Unity Hall at 5 p.m. Attendees will get the chance to play Brown’s board game, […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Marshall “Eddie” Conway, political activist, Black Panther Party member, dies
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Marshall “Eddie” Conway, a former Black Panther Party member and prison reform advocate whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 44 years in jail, died Feb. 13 in Long Beach, Calif. after a short illness. Services for him are to be held Feb. 25 at Homewood Friends […]
Posted inNational News
PRESS ROOM: Hampton University is Proud to Announce the Hampton University Repertory Theatre: The First and Only Professional Theatre Company Housed at an HBCU
By Black PR Wire Hampton, Va. – Hampton University has again distinguished itself in establishing the Hampton University Repertory Theatre to provide professional theatre offerings for the University and Hampton Roads Community. “One of our goals is to present engaging, thought-provoking, professional theatre for the campus and community,” says Dr. Karen Turner Ward, artistic director for […]
Posted inNational News
PRESS ROOM: National Urban League Conference Will Attract Thousands of Attendees, Millions in Economic Impact to Houston
By Black PR Wire HOUSTON – The 2023 National Urban League Conference, returning to Houston after 24 years, will attract thousands of the nation’s most forward-thinking community and business leaders for four days of world-class speakers, informative workshops, dynamic entertainment, and networking events. National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and Houston Area Urban League […]
Posted inNational News
Freelance journalists of color win $100,000 prizes
By The Associated Press Two California-based freelance journalists were awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, giving them $100,000 each for their work, it was announced on Feb. 15. The Heising-Simons Foundation gives the annual prize for excellence in long-form journalism about underrepresented groups in the United States. The foundation said it is the largest dollar […]
Posted inBUSINESS
PRESS ROOM: Business Wire and Black PR Wire present: The State of Black Media 2023
By Black PR Wire (Miami, FL) – Ever wonder why Black Media is so important? Black media plays a critical role in reaching and activating Black audiences. It creates a space where the Black community can have a voice and speak for themselves about issues of importance and combat the stereotypes that harm them. Black […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Black Baltimoreans fight to save homes from redevelopment
By Lea Skene, The Associated Press In 2018, Angela Banks received bad news from her landlord: Baltimore officials were buying her family’s home of four decades, planning to demolish the three-story brick row house to make room for a beleaguered urban renewal project aimed at transforming a historically Black neighborhood. Banks and her children became […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Wrongfully convicted Black man, now free: ‘I was finally heard’
By Jim Salter, The Associated Press As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself. This week a St. Louis judge overturned Johnson’s murder conviction and ordered him freed. Johnson closed his eyes […]