Local HBCUs Howard, Bowie State, Coppin State, Morgan State and Maryland Eastern Shore. (Courtesy Photo) By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO An agreement has been reached to settle a 15-year old lawsuit that will bring millions of dollars to Maryland’s four HBCUs beginning in 2024. “This settlement marks an historic investment in Maryland’s Historically […]
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Student-athletes for an anti-racist society
Jelani Williams (lef) and Michae Jones (Image credit_ Eric Sucar) By Written by Kristina García and Greg Johnson It is hard being a young person in America right now, says Chaz Howard, vice president for social equity and community and university chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s doubly hard being a young Black person […]
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#WordinBlack: Observations continue for teachers during pandemic
The National Center for Education Statistics reports that 3.2 million Americans were employed as educators in a public school district last year. In many states, teachers depend on evaluations to gain access to pay increases based on performance. (Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash) By Alexis Taylor Special to the AFRO The spring observation season […]
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Black people got Ma’Khia killed
Sean Yoes By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Moments before three guilty verdicts in the trial of disgraced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin came down and exaltation erupted across the country, in Columbus, Ohio 16-year old Ma’Khia Bryant was fighting for her life. It only took seconds for her to lose that fight. […]
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Megan Sayles to join AFRO staff in June
Megan Sayles (Courtesy Photo) By Rev. Dorothy Boulware AFRO Managing Editor The AFRO is thrilled to welcome Megan Sayles, a Report for America journalist, who will come on board, June 1, to cover the business beat. She’s graduating in May from the University of Maryland with dual undergraduate degrees in multi platform journalism and government […]
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Op-ed: Finishing The Road Paved
By Brittany Young If you watched Lovecraft Country this summer, you might have wondered why the woman riding her motorcycle on the side of Tik’s car was significant. That woman was Bessie Stringfield: the first Black woman inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, the beauty behind what we now call stunt riding, and the […]
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Gordon: `She should resign…’
During an interview with the AFRO, prominent Baltimore defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon (left) called for the resignation of Baltimore City Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming because he said, “she has cast a dark cloud over her agency.” By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com On April 16, standout Baltimore defense attorney J. Wyndal Gordon […]
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Biden and national leaders support D.C. Statehood
By Micha Green D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com As the House prepares to vote and expects to pass H.R. 51- Washington, D.C. Admission Act on April 22, national leaders, including President Joe Biden, expressed support to make the nation’s capital the 51st state. “For far too long, the more than 700,000 people of Washington, D.C. have […]
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Board of Public Works approves compensation for man wrongfully convicted
Walter Lomax was wrongly imprisoned in Maryland for nearly 40 years. A bill named for him passed in the Maryland General Assembly in 2021. Another man, Melvin Thomas, was compensated by the state using the Lomax law guidelines on April 21, 2021, after a 19-year imprisonment. Lomax on Nov. 8, 2017, holds a 2014 photo […]
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Facebook Journalism Project Accelerator participants announced
30 North American Newsrooms Join the Facebook Accelerator David Grant Facebook Accelerator Program Manager Dorrine Mendoza Local News Partnerships We are thrilled to announce 30 news organizations joining the Facebook Journalism Project’s Accelerator programs for reader revenue in North America. More than half (55 percent) are owned or led by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian and/or […]
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Derek Chauvin Murder Trial: Community has mixed reactions to guilty verdict
Aisha Flowers, 32, participating in a Black Lives Matter protest weeks after the killing of George Floyd in May 2020. On April 20, almost one year after Floyd’s murder, his killer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges which included second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second degree manslaughter. Chauvin was denied bail and […]
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Ex-cop Derek Chauvin guilty: Justice for George Floyd
Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 millions of people around the globe have marched in protest of his murder, police brutality and systemic racism. April 20 was the day disgraced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for Floyd’s murder. Hundreds gathered peacefully and solemnly posed for […]