By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com Bowie State University (BSU) rising senior Paige Blake has a disability, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at her. When she was four years old, she was diagnosed with a rare form of spina bifida, a condition that affects the spine. Because […]
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Posted inMaryland Government
Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Hold Public Hearing in Baltimore County on June 4, 2022
By Special Report In 2019, the Maryland General Assembly enacted, and Governor Larry Hogan signed into law, legislation establishing the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MLTRC) as the first Commission dedicated to investigating racial terror lynchings in the United States. Sponsored by Delegate Joseline A. Peña-Melnyk, House Bill 307 tasks the Commission with researching […]
Posted inReligion
Maryland Episcopal diocese awards $175K in reparations fund grants
By The Associated Press The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has awarded $175,000 in grants to community organizations from a fund established to make reparations for systemic racism and slavery. The diocese announced May 26 that six organizations doing the work of “restoring African American and Black communities” were selected to receive funds through the inaugural […]
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Set to retire, Eleanor Roosevelt High Principal Reginald McNeill looks back on almost three decades in education
By Tinashe Chingarande, Special to the AFRO When reflecting on his days as a journalism undergraduate student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in the 1970s, Reginald McNeill’s gruff baritone voice lightens to a silky tenor with wistful affection for this period of his life. His alma mater, a historically Black university established […]
Posted inCoronavirus
D.C. and Prince George’s County move in different directions with COVID-19 guidance
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor As residents across the DMV start the Memorial Day holiday weekend, COVID-19 rates are slowly starting to climb in D.C. and in neighboring Prince George’s County. Though both locations have seen an uptick in cases, the two jurisdictions have moved in different directions regarding guidance over the increasing infection […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Howard Hughes Medical Institute announces new program for early career faculty to diversify the scientific workforce
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a science philanthropy that advances biomedical research and science education, on Thursday committed $1.5 billion to launch the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program for early career scientists who are dedicated to creating equitable and inclusive lab environments. Applications […]
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Governor Hogan Announces Opening of Maryland Homeowner Assistance Fund
Sponsored content provided by Governor Larry Hogan today announced the launch of the $248 million Maryland Homeowner Assistance Fund, which will be administered by the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to support mortgage relief, home repairs, housing counseling, and legal services. “Across Maryland, there are homeowners who are struggling to keep up […]
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It’s graduation time at area HBCUs – face to face at last
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor Graduation at the Washington-Baltimore area’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been a standing ovation experience this Spring in the area. All area HBCUs have returned to in-person events this year after many had postponed graduation ceremonies altogether in the early days of Spring 2020. Most campuses held […]
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Not too late to find an HBCU summer camp for your kids
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor Summer is the time to introduce the young person in your life to a (Historically Black College and University) HBCU campus. Let’s say you attended an HBCU, and want to instill that priceless HBCU love in your offspring. On the other hand, perhaps, you’ve never stepped foot on one […]
Posted inNational News
The Mis-Education of the Negro
By Frances Murphy (Toni) Draper, AFRO Publisher In 1933, Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson wrote his seminal, albeit controversial, book The Mis-Education of the Negro. A weekly columnist for the AFRO and other Black publications, Dr. Woodson argued that the education systems of his day were designed to oppress rather than uplift Black children teaching them […]
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Richard Collins III Plaza Dedicated: Symbol of Justice Against Hate that Took His Life
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor On May 14, much of the nation froze in shock and horror as televised replays of the murder of 10 innocent black lives at an East Buffalo New York grocery store. The constant reports still are still unwrapping the story of an intentional mass shooting targeted at black people […]
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Let’s Talk about Money: Starting a business
Thinking about starting a business? Here are 5 things to consider More people are choosing to become entrepreneurs and chart a path of their own in the pandemic. In fact, one million more new business applications were filed in 2021 than in 2020 -the highest total on record- according to the U.S Census Bureau. If […]