Stacie Burgess BOSTON, MA –Fenway Health announces today that Stacie Burgess has been hired as its Vice President of Communications. With her historic appointment, Burgess will become the first African American to join Fenway Health’s leadership team. She comes to Fenway Health with 20 years of experience in strategic communications and marketing, most recently at […]
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Former Coppin State Men’s Basketball standout Andrew Robinson signs professional contract in Costa Rica
BALTIMORE – Former Coppin State men’s basketball player Andrew Robinson (Takoma Park, Md./Springbrook HS) has signed a professional contract to play for the Roswell Rayguns in Costa Rica, it was announced on Thursday. The Rayguns compete in the Federacion Costarricense de Baloncesto (FECOBA) which was founded in 2005. A native of Takoma Park, Md., Robinson […]
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Crittenton girls host talk for teens on COVID-19 recovery
Young women off Crittenton Services of Greater Washington (CSGW), which hosted their annual High Tea and conducted a student panel under the theme, “My Voice Matters.” (Courtesy Photo) By Briana Thomas Special to the AFRO More than 100 teen girls from Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County school districts gathered on April 22 at 6 p.m. […]
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Real law enforcement reform in Maryland, finally
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Maryland enacted the first and what proved to be the most comprehensive Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights in the nation in 1974 (LEOBOR). And for many law enforcement reform advocates, those protections provided great cover for countless incidents of egregious police misconduct for decades and in myriad […]
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Opioid use, fentanyl deaths spike amid pandemic
By CALLAN TANSILL-SUDDATH Capital News Service Annapolis Bureau Preliminary data from 2020 reveals a dramatic increase in deaths linked with opioids in Maryland, particularly fentanyl; health officials blame the pandemic. The number of unintentional intoxication overdoses — those involving all drugs and alcohol — rose 18.7% to 2,773 in 2020 from 2,379 in 2019, according […]
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Agreement reached, millions for Maryland HBCUs
Local HBCUs Howard, Bowie State, Coppin State, Morgan State and Maryland Eastern Shore. (Courtesy Photo) By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO An agreement has been reached to settle a 15-year old lawsuit that will bring millions of dollars to Maryland’s four HBCUs beginning in 2024. “This settlement marks an historic investment in Maryland’s Historically […]
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Student-athletes for an anti-racist society
Jelani Williams (lef) and Michae Jones (Image credit_ Eric Sucar) By Written by Kristina García and Greg Johnson It is hard being a young person in America right now, says Chaz Howard, vice president for social equity and community and university chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s doubly hard being a young Black person […]
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Megan Sayles to join AFRO staff in June
Megan Sayles (Courtesy Photo) By Rev. Dorothy Boulware AFRO Managing Editor The AFRO is thrilled to welcome Megan Sayles, a Report for America journalist, who will come on board, June 1, to cover the business beat. She’s graduating in May from the University of Maryland with dual undergraduate degrees in multi platform journalism and government […]
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Public health agencies recognize America’s other epidemic: Racism
(Photo courtesy Marcus Spiske) By Alexis Taylor, Special to the AFRO More than a year into the deadly coronavirus pandemic, health experts have identified another public health crisis facing the American public: racism. The nation’s leading public health agencies have declared that centuries of racism in America have weakened the mental and physical health of […]
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Number of civilian gun applications approved in Md. increases
One of the several display cases with some of the handguns available for purchase at United Gun Shop in Rockville, Maryland, in April 2021. (Photo Credit: Jonathan Bennett) BY JACOB STEINBERG Capital News Service Annapolis Bureau From 2019 to 2020, the number of approved applications for Maryland civilians licensed to buy or own a regulated […]
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COVID-19 deaths, illnesses and a ‘she-session’
The following stories were written by Morgan State University multimedia journalism students The coronavirus brought on a year of death and illness, plus another trauma, an economic “she-session.” American women have been disproportionately hobbled in the workplace. Women held 55% of the jobs lost in the wake of COVID-19, reported The Hill last May, just […]
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Maryland ranks fourth for worst robocalls
(By Massimo Vernicesole_Shutterstock) By Nicole Batey Special to the AFRO Have you ever received a call from someone claiming that you need to renew your car warranty? The problem is you no longer even own that vehicle. You, my friend, have just received a robocall. A spam robocall is an unsolicited call to your phone […]