Photos by Stephen Hopkins Family and friends gathered at Martin’s West on Oct. 27 to celebrate radio talk show host Larry Young, now retiring after 25 years on air. The former senator hosted the award winning Larry Young Morning Show on Radio One’s WOLB 1010 AM in Baltimore. The program opened with J. Wyndal Gordon […]
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Griner sent to Russian penal colony to serve sentence
By The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court rejected an appeal of her nine-year sentence last month. The eight-time all-star center with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold […]
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Biden celebrates with Maryland’s newly elected state leadership team in rally at Bowie State University
By Deborah Bailey, Contributing Editor The victory party for Maryland Democrats commenced the day before 2022 mid-term elections at the Leonidas S. James Physical Education Complex on the campus of Bowie State University. At a rally held the Monday before Election Day, President Joe Biden, and First Lady Jill Biden, Ed. D, celebrated a strong, […]
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In Maryland, Moore elected as state’s first Black governor
By BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Democrat Wes Moore was elected Maryland’s first Black governor Tuesday, defeating Republican Dan Cox in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1. Moore’s victory flips a governor’s office from Republican to Democratic. Of the 36 governor’s races this year, Maryland and Massachusetts represented the best chances […]
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Democracy, inflation, political dissatisfaction drives Marylanders to polls
BY EMMETT GARTNER, ABBY ZIMMARDI, SHANNON CLARK AND TIMOTHY DASHIELLCapital News Service SILVER SPRING, Md.—The line of voters inside the Silver Spring Civic Building snaked around the lobby on Election Day Tuesday morning but never got long enough to spill into the brisk fall day. The wait time, around 20 minutes, was a little longer […]
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Election Day is here, and so are the voters
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report For America Corps Member, tmcqueen@afro.com Nov. 8 will be remembered as more than election day in the middle of President Joe Biden’s first term as many Baltimoreans exercised the voting franchise to elect the state’s first Black governorand consider a range of ballot initiatives, including legalizing recreational marijuana. […]
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Election Day 2022
Baltimore residents cast their ballots at polling locations across the city on Nov. 8. Charm city voters are weighing in on everything from questions about term limits to marijuana law reform. Polls will be open between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Photos by James Fields Help us Continue to tell OUR Story and join the […]
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Baltimore City anti-gun activist, Tyree Colion Moorehead, shot to death by police
By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO Tyree Colion Moorehead, known for his anti-gun violence activism, died in a hail of violent gunfire on Nov. 6 around 3:40 p.m. Moorehead was fatally shot, by some accounts, roughly 13 times by law enforcement officers. Responding to a 911 call, multiple members of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) […]
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Mayor Brandon Scott Announces New Chief of Staff
By Special to the AFRO BALTIMORE, MD. (Tuesday, November 8, 2022) — Today, Mayor Brandon M. Scott announced Chezia Cager as his new Chief of Staff. Cager will assume the position effective November 28, 2022. Cager served in senior advisory roles in both the Obama and Biden administrations leading improvement efforts impacting domestic policy, national […]
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BALTIMORE CITY BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS TRANSITIONS TO HYBRID PUBLIC MEETINGS
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Winning numbers for $2.04B Powerball drawn after delay
By SHAMEKA DUDLEY-LOWE and SCOTT McFETRIDGE DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The numbers for a record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot were drawn Tuesday morning after a nearly 10-hour delay and now players will have to wait a bit longer to find out if anyone has won the massive prize. The numbers for the drawing held […]
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Emmett Till images have multigenerational impact on artists
By Aaron Morrison, The Associated Press Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead, growing up in Baltimore. Though he was not so irreverent as a tenth grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting. The story of the 14-year-old Black boy who was […]