By The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Baltimore this week to speak at a retreat for GOP lawmakers. According to the White House, Trump is set to deliver remarks at the 2019 House Republican Conference Member Retreat Dinner on Thursday. President Donald Trump stands in the Roosevelt Room […]
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Republican Woman Runs for Mayor of Baltimore
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com This week, Catalina Byrd, a long-time political commentator and former mayoral candidate formally declared she will make another run for Mayor of Baltimore in the Republican primary. “Baltimore is at a pivotal moment that will write the next chapter in our history,” Byrd told the AFRO. Political strategist Catalina Byrd […]
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Hometown Hero Gets Key to the City
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com In June, Andre DeShields, the legendary Broadway performer and Baltimore native, captured his first Tony award after 50 years in theater. This week, DeShields was back in Baltimore and got the Key to the City. Baltimore’s own Andre Deshields captured a Tony award after 50 years in theater and honored […]
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Cardin, Van Hollen, and Cummings Announce $150,000 for Morgan State University
For Immediate Release August 14, 2019 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen and Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (all D-Md.) have announced $150,000 in federal funding for Morgan State University. The funding will create a one-year pilot program that will help increase students’ proficiency and success in programming skills with the goal to […]
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Cummings Urges Trump to ‘Come to Baltimore’
By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings took the high road in inviting President Donald Trump and other Americans to visit Baltimore but declining to respond in kind to the barrage of presidential tweets and comments disparaging him and the majority-Black city he has long represented. “We are a […]
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Scott For Baltimore?
By Stephen Janis, Special to the AFRO It was billed as a major policy shift for Baltimore, but could also be the opening salvo in the battle for the mayor’s office in 2020. July 31, current City Council President Brandon Scott rolled out a series of ambitious legislative initiatives and charter amendments he promised would fundamentally […]
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Baltimore-Area District Pushes Back Against Trump Comments
By JUANA SUMMERS and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — As Latoya Peoples painted a mural with high school-age students Monday in Baltimore, she was determined not to let President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about the city “sink in too much.” Peoples was in Sandtown-Winchester, the West Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew […]
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Trump Attacks Cummings, Calls Baltimore ‘Disgusting’
By AFRO Staff President Trump on July 27 launched the latest in a series of attacks against lawmakers of color. In a Saturday morning Twitter tirade, Trump called Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who is African American, a “brutal bully” and denigrated his Baltimore district as a “rodent infested mess” and “the worst in the USA.” […]
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Harrison Announces BPD Crime Plan
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com On July 24, Baltimore had reported 182 homicides, a grisly pace, which could lead to the eclipse of the record of 343 murders in 2017 and the fifth year in a row of 300 homicides. In the midst of another year of prolific violence last week, the AFRO asked the […]
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Maryland State Budget Road Blocks for Baltimore City and Surrounding Counties
By Senator Cory V. McCray Over the holiday weekend, Governor Hogan informed the public that he would not be releasing important funds from the most recent Maryland State Budget. These funds total $245 million, and it is important to note that this bipartisan budget received favorable votes from both Democrats and Republicans. It was especially disheartening […]
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Mosby Testifies on Marijuana Reform
By Brittney Johnson, AFRO Intern On July 7, Marilyn Mosby addressed the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security at the “Marijuana Laws in America: Racial Justice and the Need” hearing at the Rayburn House Office in Washington D.C. At the hearing, Mosby suggested that marijuana be removed under statutes as a scheduled […]
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Mayor Young, Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks®, Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore to Announce NeighborhoodLIFT® Program
BALTIMORE, Md. — Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young (D-Md.) will be joined today by Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) to announce a new partnership and program to boost homeownership in Baltimore City. In collaboration with Baltimore City, Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks America and its network member Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore, Wells Fargo will expand the […]