By AFRO Staff Sonia L. Hayes, the mother of West Baltimore Del. Antonio Hayes (D-40), died on April 3 at the age of 53. She was the third child of Mildred L. Frisby and the late Lawrence “Babe” Hayes, born Dec. 5, 1961. Hayes, affectionately known as “Pinky,” was educated in the Baltimore City Public […]
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Rev. Dr. Theodore C. Jackson Dies at 84
Rev. Dr. Theodore Clifton Jackson, Jr., Pastor Emeritus of Gillis Memorial Christian Community Church, in the Park Heights community of Northwest Baltimore, died Feb. 17. He was 84. Rev. Dr. Theodore C. Jackson (Courtesy Photo) Jackson, the son of Rev. Theodore C. Jackson, Sr. and Lucy M. Jackson, was born Aug. 4, 1933 in Baltimore. […]
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Laura Jude Gardner, Pioneering Engineer and Businesswoman Dies at 72
Laura Jude Gardner, the second Black woman hired as a systems engineer at IBM in Baltimore and one of the founding members of the legendary Gatsby’s nightclub, died Jan. 5 at her Sutton Place home in Bolton Hill of natural causes. She was 72. Laura Jude Gardner was a scientist, pioneering engineer and nightclub owner. […]
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Frederick M. Tillman, Local Businessman Dies
Frederick Michael Tillman, an entrepreneur in the medical field for several years, died on Christmas Day of congestive heart failure. He was 72. Frederick M. Tillman Tillman was born February 11, 1945, the oldest son of Frederick Thomas Tillman and Agnes Johnson Tillman Russell. He was educated in the Baltimore City Public Schools, and graduated […]
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Arthur Sherman Evans, Jr., Award Winning Educator Dies
Arthur Evans, Jr., a long-time professor at Florida Atlantic University, who also served as the school’s chair of the Department of Sociology, died Dec. 11 after a prolonged battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. He was 66. Arthur Sherman Evans, Jr. (Courtesy Photo) Evans was born to Arthur and Evelyn Evans […]
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Those We Lost in 2017
Across the Nation Simeon Booker (1918-2017) Booker was a courageous and award winning journalist who put his life on the line to tell the story of Black America during the civil rights movement. (Photo credit: AFRO file photo) ========================================= Dick Gregory (1932-2017) As a comedian and activist, Gregory broke racial barriers in the 1960s and […]
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Carl Edward Murphy Smith, Father, Brother, Friend
Carl Edward Murphy Smith, oldest great grandson of AFRO founder, John H. Murphy Sr., died Dec. 15 after a long illness. The Baltimore native and Morgan State University graduate spent most of his career with Bell Atlantic and Verizon, and was an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Over the years Smith served as […]
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Eva Frances Lockwood, 98
Eva Frances Lockwood, the widow of the late Dr. William Lockwood, died after a prolonged illness on Aug. 4 at the age of 98. Eva Frances Lockwood (Courtesy Photo) She was the mother of LaVerne Gaither and the late Deborah Lockwood William. She is also survived by two grandsons, two great grandchildren and numerous nieces, […]
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William Cornish, Devoted Church Man, Dies at 76
William Joseph Cornish William Joseph Cornish died unexpectedly at the age of 76 on March 5 in Cambridge, Md. Cornish was born in 1940 to Naomi Stanley and Joseph Ulysses Cornish. Third of four siblings, Cornish was reared by Naomi and Carroll Cooper. He was educated in Maryland’s Dorchester County Public Schools, graduating in 1958 […]
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Lenora D. Ming-Cobb
Lenora D. Ming-Cobb On Friday, February 3, 2017, Lenora D. Ming-Cobb, wife of the late Leroy Cobb, was called home to be with the Lord, one month shy of 103 years. When she turned 100 on March 8, 2014 she was featured in the AFRO-American Newspaper and on WEAA radio. She also received a letter […]
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Gloria Tucker Brown
Gloria Tucker Brown Sunset came Wednesday, February 15 in the early afternoon with her husband Bill at her side. Viewing will be at Popes Funeral Home Chapel on Friday, February 24th from 5:00 – 7:30 PM. Services will be at Alfred Street Baptist Church on Saturday, February 25th at 11:00 AM. Interment will be held […]
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Priscilla Gaines Lansey
Priscilla Gaines Lansey passed away on Dec. 1 as a result of congestive heart failure. Gaines was the first of five children born to Edward Gaines Lansey, Sr. and Martha Priscilla Phillips on Sep. 12, 1942. Priscilla Gaines Lansey. (Courtesy Photo) A native of Northwest Baltimore, Gaines was baptized at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church […]
