By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO Lamont Crooks could be anywhere when the call comes. Somewhere in his West Baltimore community a conflict will reach a boiling point; a conflict with the potential to turn deadly, like hundreds of conflicts do each year in his city. He knows it is coming. In fact, he […]
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Karens, Beckys & Chads: White People Who Intend To Cause Harm to Black People
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com The undefeated Internet has blessed pop culture with naming White women, particularly White women freaking out on people of color, “Karens.” The equally undefeated Beyoncé has gifted the world with calling sneaky White women “Becky with the Good Hair.” And, with the absurdities that come with continued racism, […]
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Parade of Hearses
You may have seen the long line of hearse riding down west North Avenue headed east on Friday, June 27, 2020 at approximately 6:15 p.m. in Baltimore, MD, but let’s talk about the reason for the caravan. Harri Close, President, National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association (NFDM), a Black Funeral Directors and Mortician Association, organized […]
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Black Mental Health in the Age of COVID-19
The AFRO spoke with F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Soringboard Community Services, formerly known as Family and Children Services of Central Maryland. By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com Black Americans and other people of color continue to suffer more in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most deadly global pandemics […]
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Klan Cops and `The Wilmington Massacre’
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com In Wilmington, N.C. recently it was revealed some White members of the Wilmington Police Department are just itching for America’s mythical race war — much ballyhooed by some for decades — to begin. “We are just going to go out and just start slaughtering them f—ing ni—-s,” said […]
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Two Arrested In Fatal Stabbing of 67-year-old
By Michelle Richardson Special to the AFRO Two men have been charged in the robbery and fatal stabbing of a 67-year-old man at a bus stop early Sunday morning said Baltimore Police. Kenneth Smith, 61, of Baltimore and Brelan Handy, 27, of the 2600 block of Woodhill Drive, Glen Burnie, are both charged with first […]
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Commentary/Opinion: Atlas Must Go/ #CancelAtlas
By Sen. Jill P. Carter As a child, I awoke some mornings to news that police had arrested my father, Walter P. Carter, for sitting in protest in restaurants and apartment buildings that refused to serve and house Black people. Even after the passage of laws ending legal segregation, a fair number of private, white-owned […]
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Racial Tensions Rise on Talbot County Council
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham Special to the AFRO A White Talbot County Councilwoman who moved to silence the president of the local chapter of the NAACP during a debate over diversity is being urged to apologize. The conflict arose recently while the Eastern Shore council considered a proposal to formally adopt a diversity […]
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Remembering the 1964 Murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner
By Donna Lewis Johnson For Blacks of a certain age, the May 25 knee-on-neck killing of George Floyd by a White police officer evokes that awful time in the summer of 1964 when young civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by a Klan mob. Their dead bodies lay hidden in a […]
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AFRO Archives April 11, 2013: Survivor of 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Wants Money, Not a Medal
By Zenitha Prince AFRO Archives April 11, 2013 The message and impact of the August 1963 March on Washington were still resonating around the globe when an act of violence tore into the American psyche and acted as an impetus for the civil rights movement. On Sept. 15, 1963, Klansmen bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist […]
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The Lynching of James Byrd Jr.
By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@afro.com The public execution of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February was captured on video; if it hadn’t been, the White men charged with his murder would most likely still be free to this day. On Memorial Day, George Floyd was also publicly executed in Minneapolis at the hands […]
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Mrs. Evers Prays Husband’s Death ‘Was Not In Vain
By Ray Abrams AFRO Staff Correspondent June 22, 1963 Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi is a bitter state meeting pleas for equality with bigotry and bullets. In its capital today, three youngsters are fatherless. With unbelieving eyes they saw him gunned to death in the driveway of their home. “Get up, daddy,” they pleaded as they […]
