Del. Erek Barron (D- District 24) was nominated by President Joe Biden as the next U.S. Attorney for Maryland. (Courtesy Photo) By Micha Green D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com Prince George’s County Delegate Erek Barron (D-District 24) is on the verge of making history. President Joe Biden nominated Barron, 47, to serve as the next […]
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Local non-profits team up to help 5,000 families with free back-to-school event
Martha’s Table, Delivering Good and Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation are teaming up for the “Get Ready 4 School Giveaway.” (Courtesy Photo) By Micha Green D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, most students in the D.C. area were disrupted from the traditional classroom setting and forced […]
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NBCDI names Dr. Leah Austin as president and CEO in support of its new #50Forward strategy
Dr. Leah Austin will join the National Black Child Development Institute as its president and CEO on August 2, 2021. (Courtesy photo) It’s a New Day at NBCDI! In support of its 50th Anniversary’s #50Forward strategy, the National Black Child Development Institute, Inc. (NBCDI) today announced Dr. Leah Austin as its new President & CEO. […]
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Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling surges across US
Arlena Brown, center, holds her youngest child, Lucy, 9 months, as she leads their other children, from left, Jacoby, 11; Felicity, 9, and Riley, 10, through math practice at their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Arlena worked as a preschool teacher before the pandemic. “In the beginning, the biggest challenge was to […]
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WETATi hosts business pitch competition for D.M.V. students
This year’s participants in the pitch competition have been working with coaches for weeks to perfect their business plans, and at the convention they will network with potential employers and investors. (Courtesy photo) By Megan Sayles AFRO Business Writer Report for America Corps Member msayles@afro.com We’re Empowered to Achieve The impossible (WETATi), an organization that […]
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Novartis, HBCUs collaborate on fight against health disparities
As part of its collaboration with HBCUS, the Novartis US Foundation will provide three-year scholarships of $10,000 for 360 students at HBCUs and medical schools to increase diversity in the medical ranks. (Courtesy Photo) By AFRO Staff Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis and its U.S.-based foundation recently announced a 10-year collaboration with Coursera, the National Medical […]
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Study finds some connection between heavy relaxer use and cancer
A new study published in the July edition of Carcinogenesis posits a plausible link between the heavy use of lye-based hair relaxers or straighteners and the incidence of cancer among African-American women. (Courtesy photo) By AFRO Staff A new study published in the July edition of Carcinogenesis posits a plausible link between the heavy use […]
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28 abducted Baptist school students freed in Nigeria
Parents are reunited with released students of the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Nigeria, on Sunday, July 25, 2021. Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials […]
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Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
In this July 19, 2000 file photo, Robert “Bob” Moses, a veteran civil rights activist and founder of the Algebra Project, a math literacy program in Mississippi, speaks in Jackson, Miss. Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and […]
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‘Mother’ Viola Fletcher Among 200 Black Wall Street Survivors Headed to Ghana
Viola Fletcher – affectionately known as Mother Fletcher – appeared on the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s morning breaking news program, “Let It Be Known,” on Monday, July 19, 2021. (Photo courtesy of BlackPress USA) By Stacy Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent NNPA NEWSWIRE — Mother Fletcher, who at 107-years old, witnessed most of the […]
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UN experts: Africa became hardest hit by terrorism this year
A Somali soldier stands near a destroyed building in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, March 1, 2019. Police say a nearly day-long siege in the heart of Somalia’s capital has ended with all of the al-Shabab extremist attackers killed. More than 20 are dead with the number expected to climb as hospitals report more than 50 wounded, […]
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Prosecutors air more claims in R. Kelly case; 1 involves boy
In this Sept. 17, 2019, file photo, R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. Federal prosecutors in New York on Friday, July 23, 2021, asked a judge for permission to admit what they said was evidence for which Kelly has not been charged, at his upcoming sex-trafficking trial in […]
