By AFRO Staff From Aug 27. to Oct. 1, the facade of 2519 N. Charles St. will illuminate with newly commissioned artwork by three Baltimore based artists. Since last year, SHAN Wallace, Akea Brionne Brown and Savannah Wood have engaged in research in the AFRO American Newspapers archives, creating new work inspired by their findings […]
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Tell Donald Trump We Are Not for Sale
By Rep. Kweisi Mfume Every four years the Republican party discovers Black people. It has happened for the last 50 years and this year is no exception. Donald Trump loves to talk about how he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body and, if Black people are smart, we will vote for him, or […]
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Unrest in Kenosha Following Jacob Blake Shooting
By Jessica Dortch AFRO Production Editor Gruesome, horrific, outrageous and disgusting are a few words that describe the scene in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23 in which an unarmed Black man, later identified as Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in close range by police officers. The video footage that later went viral showed 29-year-old […]
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Bolstering Black Women’s Political And Economic Power: Introducing BlackHer
By Angela Dorn Special to the AFRO Black women in America are using their power and belief in themselves to change their lives and America for the better. Think of Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician who, had it not been for cheating and voter intimidation, would have been America’s first Black woman governor, or activist […]
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MSU Loses Promising Student Athlete in Motorcycle Accident
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com Jordan Cofield was rising from the shadows as a Morgan State student who was making a name for himself as an athlete last spring. Now as the university prepares for fall classes Cofield’s memory only remains following a tragic motorcycle accident that claimed his life on Aug. […]
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BSE RECORDINGS Presents “SECRET GARDEN” featuring SISQO, RAHEEM DEVAUGHN, SHAWN STOCKMAN and OMAR WILSON
SECRET GARDEN was just world premiered on RollingStone.com. “The Secret Garden” is getting an all-star update courtesy of Sisqo (known for his solo hits and time in Dru Hill), Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men), Raheem DeVaughn, and Omar Wilson. The four singers are careful to stay faithful to Jones’ original arrangement for “The Secret Garden,” […]
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Ida B. Wells Remembered with Massive Mosaic at Union Station
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor While Black women were instrumental in women gaining the right to vote on Aug. 18, 1920, they were met with racism from their White counterparts during the suffrage fight and are now often forgotten as foremothers of the movement. Despite not always having been invited to the table, Black […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Parents Change Law Through Personal Tragedy
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com From a very public tragedy that changed their lives forever, Tonya Wilson and Martin McNair have shown the world incredible resilience and the ability to forgive. The parents of former University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair channeled their heartache and turned it into meaningful policy changes […]
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Michelle Obama Emphasizes Empathy, Going High, The Vote
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com When a Black woman says “It is what it is,” most of the time, it must be so- and, while Michelle Obama may have been taking a jab at President Donald Trump, who used the same phrase when talking about COVID-19 deaths– in her speech for the Democratic […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Rev. Al Sharpton Talks Trump, Racism, Protesting, Hope For the Future
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Not many people have known their life’s calling and then began that work during adolescence; however the Rev. Al Sharpton has been in pulpits since boyhood, led civil rights organizations since his teens and been a life-long justice-fighter. At 65, the founder and president of the National Action […]
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Do Something…Vote!
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King delivered his well-known “I Have a Dream” speech declaring, “We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote, and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until […]
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Masks Everywhere, Mandatory Quarantines From High Risk Locations
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Despite restaurants, bars and shopping centers beginning to reopen, coronavirus is still in the nation’s capital, and Mayor Muriel Bowser has implemented orders effective immediately to slow and prevent the further spread of this pandemic. With more than 11,850 residents testing positive for COVID-19, and counting, Washingtonians must […]