Category: Prince George’s County News

Sandra Pruitt, People for Change Coalition Inc.’s executive director, helped promote this seminar. (Photo pfccoalition.org) The Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform (MAJR) hosted a training to discuss ending the mass incarceration of Black people, in Largo on Jan. 10. MAJR is a bi-partisan, statewide alliance seeking legislative changes to bring Maryland into the 21st century […]

WHUR 96.3 FM and First Baptist Church of Glenarden are joining forces again this year to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The organizations will present “Beyond the Color of Our Skin,” a two-hour town hall meeting to discuss diversity and racial tolerance. The event will take place Jan. 19 from […]

County Council Chairman Mel Franklin (right) outlined a bold plan at the Retreat. Sleeves rolled up, ready to work, members of the Prince George’s County Council gathered in Cambridge, Md. for their 2015 Annual Legislative Retreat on Jan. 5 and 6. The two day retreat focused on legislative priorities, economic development, and teamwork. The retreat […]

Del. Jay Walker is the chairman of the Prince George’s County House Delegation. The Prince George’s County House of Delegates contingent has new leaders and a plate full of priorities as it settles into the recently convened Maryland General Assembly session. Del. Jay Walker (D-District 26) was elected chairman of the House delegation in December […]

Jaydan and his mother Monique Nichols. The recovery of nine-year-old Jaydan Stancil is remarkable. “I feel all right,” he told the AFRO. Jaydan was shot and saved by three policemen with only minutes to live. He was released from the hospital on Dec. 30. “He is truly a miracle,” said his mother, Monique Nichols. The […]

Even though a series of murders happened over Prince George’s County’s roll into the new year, crime in the county for 2014 was overall lower than the year before, according to a media spokesperson from the police department. “We finished 2014 with dramatic drops in crime,” Lt. William Alexander told the AFRO in an email […]

Photo of a facilitator’s training guide for a new Prince George’s County parent outreach program focusing on issues of immigrant family reunification. The program was implemented partly in response to issues arising from the influx of unaccompanied minors from Central American countries during summer 2014. This photo was taken on Nov. 13, 2014. (Photo by […]

Dr Johnnetta Cole Bowie State University Graduates of 2014 (Updated 12/23/2014) Bowie State University held its 2014 Winter Commencement ceremony Dec. 19 for 380 graduates. Dr. Johnnetta Cole, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and former president of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women, addressed 295 undergraduates and 85 graduates at […]

Duane Lamar Williams Washington, D.C. resident Duane Lamar Williams was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Dec. 11 after being found guilty of second-degree murder and other related charges for a February 2013 incident. On that day, according to Prince George’s County State Attorney Angela Alsobrooks, Williams, 36, approached 27-year-old Eric Eugene Walker at […]

Frederick Douglass High School football team took home the 2A State Championship trophy Dec. 6. For the first time in school history, Frederick Douglass High School football team took home the 2A State Championship trophy after defeating the Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School 38-0 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore Dec. 6. Douglas came into […]

Troy Berry was sworn in Dec. 2. Charles County, Md. swore in Troy Berry Dec. 2, the county’s first African American sheriff in the office’s 356-year history. Berry told NBC, “There’s a single reason I entered the political race — to become sheriff of Charles County.  I was not trying to make history, I was trying to make a difference.” When he won […]

Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, III and the county’s council were sworn into office at the Prince George’s County Administration Building (CAB) Dec. 1. This was Baker’s second time swearing in for the county executive’s office. “Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have journeyed far […]