By Mayor Muriel Bowser, and Jaime Contreras Just this week, we announced some promising news: visitors are coming back to Washington, D.C. After tourism plummeted to only 13 million visitors in 2020, last year, we welcomed 19 million people from across the nation and around the world to our city. In 2021, we spread the […]
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Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra celebrate the site and sounds of music
By Ralph E. Moore, Jr., Special to the AFRO The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore celebrated its 40th birthday on Sept. 17. A packed house greeted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as they celebrated the space that has helped shape the city and warm the hearts of its citizens. The […]
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Congressman Kweisi Mfume and Senator Ben Cardin band together to introduce the National Council on African-American History and Culture Act
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report For America Corps Member tmcqueen@afro.com Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD-07) introduced new legislation to further in-depth representation and conservation of Black history and culture on Sep. 22. This legislation proposed a National Council on African American History and Culture to educate, preserve and celebrate Black history and culture. The […]
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The Thing I Love About Baltimore Revisited
By Rev. Dorothy Boulware, AFRO Managing Editor, Dorothy@Afro.com How fortuitous to be reviewing the AFRO book, The Thing I Love About Baltimore, at the eve of our 130th anniversary; seeing it was created to celebrate our 126th anniversary. So much was going on that year, so much being criticized and celebrated, so much being denigrated […]
Posted inArts & Culture
The ‘Woman King’ makes revolutionary debut
By Stephane Dunn, Ph.D., and Beverly Guy-Sheftal Ph.D., Chicago Defender Back in a 1974 review of the Bond-like Cleopatra Jones movie starring Tamara Dobson, Feminist and former Ms. Magazine editor Margaret Sloan spoke volumes about Black female spectatorial desire. Damn, that felt good she wrote. After viewing The Woman King, we know exactly what she […]
Posted inMaryland Government
Goucher College Poll shows Moore ahead of Cox in Maryland gubernatorial race
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report for America Corps Member, tmcqueen@afro.com The Goucher College Poll, released by The Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher College on Sep. 19, unveiled new projections in the Maryland gubernatorial race. Likely voters were surveyed across Maryland, which resulted in a 22 percent lead for Moore. Roughly […]
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Fundraiser tops $300K for teen ordered to pay her alleged rapist’s family
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent, @StaceyBrownMedia Pieper Lewis had never known freedom and had never enjoyed the support and guidance necessary for children to succeed. The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury for fatally stabbing Zachary Brooks, 37, who authorities admitted raped her multiple times in 2020 when […]
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New York AG files massive suit against former president, family: ‘staggering fraud
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent, @StacyBrownMedia New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a massive civil lawsuit against Donald Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization, on Sept. 21. Attorney James laid out the “staggering fraud” case she said the former president and his family committed for more than […]
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Michelle Obama’s initiative launches youth voter campaign
By Raquel Rogers, The Defender Network Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote launched a nonpartisan campaign that aims to boost youth voter participation ahead of the 2022 midterm election. On Sept. 14, she launched the Vote Future campaign alongside Climate Power. The organization uses research and polling data to influence the national […]
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‘Serial’ host: evidence that freed Syed was long available
By Brian Witte, The Associated Press The creator of a true-crime podcast that helped free a Maryland man imprisoned for two decades said on Sept. 20, that she feels a mix of emotions over how long it took authorities to act on evidence that’s long been available. The judge’s order to release Adnan Syed and […]
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Lierman and Brown connect with communities throughout Maryland ahead of Election Day
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report for America Corps Member, tmcqueen@afro.com Maryland Democratic candidate for Comptroller Brooke Lierman and Rep. Anthony Brown, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General are making their way down the campaign trail ahead of the midterm election on Nov. 8. Lierman is taking part in the Build a Better Maryland […]
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Realtors Row: Black realtors weigh in on why they joined the industry
By Special to the AFRO Before opening her Baltimore boutique real estate brokerage, Missy Conway was an actuary for an insurance company. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she came to the U.S. in 1995 to attend Temple University for actuarial science, but moved to the Baltimore area after graduation. Conway got her real estate license […]