Ledo Pizza is one of many Maryland businesses that began offering incentives for their customers to get vaccinated. The pizza chain gave away free 8-inch cheese pizzas to people who received at least one vaccine shot during the months of May and June. (Courtesy of LedoPizza.com By Megan Sayles AFRO Business Writer Report for America […]
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Black and sick: What I’ve witnessed while in the hospital
D.C. Editor Micha Green, right, with her mother Bishop-elect Paula Clark as she was released from a rehabilitation center in Chicago in May 2021. (Photo by Micha Green) By Micha Green D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com The past five months I have been in or around a healthcare setting almost daily. My mother suffered a […]
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Eighth grader brings attention to bullying in new book
Amber Richardson created “Mariah Gets Bullied” as a result of her witnessing one of her peers get bullied. Richardson’s debut book is now available on Amazon. (Courtesy photos) By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO When eighth grader Amber Richardson started writing the story “Mariah Gets Bullied,” she had no idea that she was starting […]
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The great divide over COVID vaccine
Frances “Toni” Murphy Draper, AFRO CEO and Publisher By Frances “Toni” Draper AFRO Publisher and CEO Unless you’ve been in a deep Rip Van Winkle sleep over the past few months, I do not need to tell you that there is a great divide, especially in the Black community, over the efficacy and effectiveness of […]
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Black People are Dying at 1.4 Times the Rate of Whites in this Pandemic
Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on By Congressman Kweisi Mfume Health care disparities are wide and show gaps among economic classes and races and these gulfs deepened with the COVID-19 pandemic. Among communities of color the healthcare response and outcomes have been especially catastrophic. The human death toll and suffering are great no matter […]
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Chronicling hearing impaired golfer Langston Frazier’s path to the PGA
Langston Frazier has already put his PGA education to use as an assistant golf professional at the University of Maryland Golf Course, the same school where he’s pursuing a graduate degree in broadcast journalism. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Langston Frazier was born hearing impaired in both ears, which nullified […]
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JPMorgan Chase becomes primary bank for Howard University
The group photo is from left to right: Kyle Williams, JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking Managing Director; Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO; Dameel Edwards, Howard graduate; Yaadira Brown, Howard graduate; Peter Scher, JPMorgan Chase Vice Chairman; Wayne Frederick, Howard University president. (Courtesy Photo) By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer Report for America Corps Member […]
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Confessions of a Style Fanatic: Local stylist, designer remember their first encounters with fashion
Christen Johnson is a personal stylist whose brands, Black Women Who Style and Project Style University, are aimed towards wardrobe stylists who need an extra push and knowledge in their field. By Tonaé Lee Special to the AFRO Hey Style Fanatic readers, happy fashion month! September is a month of runway shows, collection launches and […]
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D.C. Public Schools open amid Delta variant crisis
Mayor Muriel and Chancellor Lewis Ferebee District of Columbia Public Schools. (Courtesy Photo) By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Just days before the District of Columbia’s 90,000 students returned to in-person instruction, the D.C. State Board of Education has called on Mayor Muriel Bowser to create more virtual options for families who are concerned […]
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Remembering 9/11: How the terrorists attacks created an annoying, sometimes frustrating, but indispensable inconvenience
Black women complain they are subjected to intrusive searches because of their hair. TSA five years ago said it would monitor its practices, but complaints continue. Photo courtesy TSA By Gregory Smith, Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – Yolanda Williams, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor at Los Angeles International Airport, said that passengers were […]
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Honoring the life of Tupac Shakur: A poet, a prophet and a beloved son of Baltimore
Tupac Shakur By Ralph E. Moore Jr. The Poet-Prophets Before Tupac Shakur In the beginning was the spoken word. It came forth from a group known as the Last Poets and they blended and recorded 60s music and poetry from the movement and it was good. Very good. Then along came a poet-jazz musician (magician) […]
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Morgan State alum creates podcast to examine controversial African word
Morgan State alum Iyore Odighizuwa created a podcast series called “5 Mins With an Akata?” which dives into the controversial African word “akata” which is used to describe Black Americans. By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO Morgan State alum Iyore Odighizuwa grew up in a multicultural household in Portland, Ore.. “My mother is African-American […]