By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com Nick Charles is one of Prince George’s County’s newest elected officials. He cannot wait to go to Annapolis as a delegate in January. Charles got 8,330 votes, enough to have him win one of the three seats for the 25th Legislative District, located in central Prince George’s County. Nick […]
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Streeter, Harrison Poised to Take County Council Seats
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com On July 6, the Prince George’s County Board of Elections released the results of the absentee and provisional ballots cast during the June 26 Democratic and Republican primaries. The races for District 7 and District 9 of the county council were the ones of most interest. The results showed Rodney […]
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D.C. Committee on Education Names New Director
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO Akeem Anderson, a former D.C. Public Schools employee, has been appointed as the new director of the D.C. City Council’s Committee on Education, Chairman David Grosso (I-At Large) announced July 10. In his new position, which started June 25, Anderson said he’s most interested in closing the achievement […]
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Allen Wants to Represent All of D.C. on the Council
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com The already crowded race for the D.C. Council at-large independent seat has added another candidate and this one promises to be potent. Former District of Columbia Banking Commissioner S. Kathryn Allen is seeking the non-Democrat elected at-large to the council on Nov. 6. “I am running because I believe very strongly […]
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After Weeks of Uncertainty, Washington Declares Victory
By Matthew Ritchie, Special to the AFRO The tightest contest of the Maryland State Senate has finally come to a close. On July 6, weeks after the official primary election voting ended, Del. Mary Washington claimed her victory over the incumbent, longtime Sen. Joan Carter Conway, who had represented the 43rd District in the Senate since […]
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NOT REAL NEWS: Waters Didn’t Suggest Immigrant for Top Court
By The Associated Press California Rep. Maxine Waters did not appear on CNN calling for the next U.S. Supreme Court pick to be an “illegal immigrant” despite a false image circulating online. The altered image was posted on the Trump Nation Facebook page June 28. It shows Waters during a CNN interview, over a banner […]
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Indiana GOP Leaders Call on AG to Resign Amid Groping Claims
By BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb and the two GOP Statehouse leaders have called for Republican Attorney General Curtis Hill to resign amid what they say are credible claims that Hill drunkenly groped four women, including a lawmaker, at an Indianapolis bar. “Four women had the courage to step […]
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Edwards Was Outwitted; P.G. Contests Unresolved
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com A decade ago on June 19, Donna Edwards was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives as the first Black woman to represent Maryland. Last week, Edwards was defeated for county executive for the jurisdiction that she represented as a federal legislator. As the smoke clears from the June […]
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Black Women Leaders Band Together on Behalf of Maxine Waters
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com “Never get on a Black woman’s bad side,” are the wise words of anybody who’s ever found themselves on a Black woman’s bad side. Yet, for some reason or another, people will just keep testing Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-CA) patience. She’s reclaimed her time, defended her honor and even […]
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Votes are Still Being Tallied for Two Prince George’s Races
James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com While many Prince George’s County battles were resolved on June 26, after the Democratic Primary in Maryland, two other key county races weren’t. The race for District 7 County Council seat is now between Rodney Streeter and Krystal Oriadha, who have 2,776 and 2,743, respectively while the District 9 County […]
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Waters Claps Back at Attacks From the Right and Left
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, syoes@afro.com Maxine Waters (D-CA.), the seemingly indomitable political firebrand who represents large swaths of South Central Los Angeles, is now taking fire politically from the Left, as well as the Right. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY.), the Senate Minority Leader recently attacked Waters during a speech on the Senate floor, describing her […]
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Protesters Flood U.S. Cities to Fight Trump Immigration Policy
By Ellen Knickmeyer, The Associated Press They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration Camps?” In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered June 30 across America, moved by accounts of children separated from their parents at the […]
