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By AFRO Staff Most of us know the importance of planning. We are told by our relatives and friends; if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Let’s not fail when it comes to the vote. Not this vote in this upcoming General election when the lack of effort is sure to reelect this
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Former LAPD Cop Establishes Foundation to Fund Exonerations | Afro
By AFRO Staff There are an estimated 40,000 to 230,000 persons in American prisons who were wrongfully convicted. But, exoneration is a legal battle often out of financial reach for many. Timothy T. Williams Jr., a national leading expert on police procedure, use of force, and wrongful
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HBCUs Urged to Move Toward Solar Energy | Afro
By Mark F. Gray AFRO Staff Writer mgray@afro.com As renewable energy and job creation become centerpieces to America’s economic recovery, HBCUs and Black Americans could benefit through business and technology development opportunities. Three D.C. based companies are collaborating to bridge the gap
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Black Barbershop Giving Discounted Haircuts When You Register To Vote | Afro
By Anthony McCarthy Special to the AFRO There are more than 30 newly registered voters in Baltimore thanks to Darrick Coe, owner of 3D Stylez Barbershop on York Road, who offered discounted haircuts, Sept. 26, to customers who also registered to vote. 'I want people to know that their votes really
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Point of View: "They exercised their white privilege" | Afro
By Reverend Dr. E. Gail Anderson Holness What the United States of America and the global community observed via social media on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, (The Epiphany in Christendom) was not only a threat to the democracy of the United States of America, but a breach of its sacred trust to
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Black Voices Are Loud and Clear at New York Film Festival | Afro
By Dwight Brown NNPA Newswire Film Critic The lineup at the 2020 New York Film Festival (NYFF) included an impressive array of African diaspora films and the festival’s usual collection of international motion pictures. Attesting to NYFF’s eagerness to hear Black voices, the fest featured three
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Keep Politics Out Of The Coronavirus Vaccine Approval Process | Afro
Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League Maintaining the American public’s trust in the FDA is vital. If the agency’s credibility is lost because of real or perceived interference, people will not rely on the agency’s safety warnings. Erosion of public trust will leave consumers and
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Editor has close brush with death | Afro
Originally printed May 27, 1961 By Moses J. Newson AFRO City Editor Baltimore, Md. —Friendship Airport never looked so good to me as it did Thursday afternoon when our jet pulled in from New Orleans. After two weeks in the heat, hate and hell of Dixie with the Freedom Riders, getting back to
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Wells Fargo sued for racial discrimination | Afro
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com A Black real estate developer from Baltimore is the latest person to formally accuse Wells Fargo of fostering a climate of systemic racism, creating an experience for some of its patrons known as “banking while Black.” And that real estate
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Op-ed: We cannot not lose sight of the historic milestones | Afro
By Ben Jealous Martin Luther King Jr. Day feels complicated this year. We have new reasons to celebrate. High on that list is the election of Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Rev. King preached, to the U.S. Senate. Georgians had the rare opportunity to vote for two
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Refugee Families Face Unique Struggles With Online School | Afro
By ANITA SNOW, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Samuel Lavi knew he'd have to find unique ways to stay connected to refugee families when the coronavirus pandemic shut down Valencia Newcomer School. Parents and students speak more than a dozen languages, and they'd need help navigating the
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TBE#43 - Racism Leaves America Vulnerable To Foreign Manipulation And Exploitation Of The Threat Of Violent Voter Intimidation | Afro
To Be Equal #43 October 22, 2020 Racism Leaves America Vulnerable To Foreign Manipulation And Exploitation Of The Threat Of Violent Voter Intimidation Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “We have to accept that foreign powers seize upon these divisions because they are real
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‘Threat to Health Care and Civil Rights’ Judge Barrett Confirmed by GOP Senate | Afro
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge with a stated opposition to the Affordable Care Act and many Civil Rights laws, was confirmed on Monday, October 26, 2020, as the next Supreme Court Justice. Only Maine Republican
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The University of Maryland, Baltimore & Comcast to Provide Up To 1,000 Families in West Baltimore With Internet Service | Afro
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Mayor Scott orders city hall dome lit blue | Afro
Dome Lighting In Honor and Recognition of Human Trafficking Awareness Month BALTIMORE, MD (Friday, January 15, 2021) — This evening, the City Hall dome will be lit blue in honor of Human Trafficking Awareness Month. The dome lighting, requested by Mayor Brandon M. Scott, began yesterday
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Mayor Young, Baltimore Ravens Announce Plan to Allow Fans at M&T Bank Stadium | Afro
Mayor Young, Baltimore Ravens Announce Plan to Allow Fans at M&T Bank Stadium Special exception to Mayor Young’s executive order will allow approximately 5,000 fans at the Ravens’ next home game BALTIMORE, MD. — Today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and the Baltimore Ravens announced that the team
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Letter to the Editor: Thank you for Dr. Kaye and More Dr. Kaye | Afro
Submitted by Marsha Brown Friends, I purchased a subscription to The Afro following the murder of George Floyd. My father was a subscriber for decades; he read no less than five newspapers a day. When the News American and the Sporting News went away, he easily, albeit sadly, adapted -The Afro was
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Citi Launches More Than $1 Billion in Strategic Initiatives to Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap | Afro
By BlackPressUSA Visit Citi’s Action for Racial Equity site. New York via NNPA – Citi and the Citi Foundation today announced more than $1 billion in strategic initiatives to help close the racial wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the United States. Citi’s Action for Racial Equity is
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Starting at a Black Newspaper, Dana White Is the First Black Woman to Run Comms at a Major Automaker | Afro
White carved out a pioneering career path that stretched from the Pentagon’s head office to Hyundai headquarters By Troy Schulz, Zenger.News As Hyundai North America’s first chief communications officer, Dana W. White knows what it is like to have two feet in two worlds. “Growing up I always knew
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Letter to the Editor | Afro
Submitted by Kimball Shinkoskey Dear Editor, The events of January 6, 2021 in the nation’s capitol represent the culmination of a widespread revolutionary assault on the American way of life. The assault has been directed at all three branches of government: the executive branches of the fifty
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From the Jackson/Mitchell Files: More About Our Fight for Freedom | Afro
By Lisa Mitchell Sennaar It is our responsibility to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. Our ancestors told us that eternal vigilance was the price of freedom. Part of that vigilance means that we accept voting in every election as our responsibility, not merely an option. There have always been
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Attempted smear of Jill Biden, Black educators backfires | Afro
By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO On Dec. 12, the Wall Street Journal published the commentary by Joseph Epstein, “Is there a doctor in the White House? Not if you need an M.D.”  Epstein, a former faculty member at an elite Midwestern University, offered condescending advice to Jill Biden, wife
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Dr. Anne Emery’s Memorial Announced | Afro
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Vaccine distribution another example of White privilege | Afro
Black Americans Vaccinated at Far Lower Rate By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new vaccines to combat the coronavirus, the initial concern was whether African Americans would accept
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Cash ≠ Justice: Remember Breonna By Reforming Police Institutions | Afro
By Wayne Dawkins Special to the AFRO Say her name. The family of Breonna Taylor, the EMT and girlfriend who was shot dead in her Kentucky apartment last spring, on Sept. 15, received a $12 million settlement from the City of Louisville. Compensation after months of stonewalling, character
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AFRO Exclusive: Michael Steele talks anti-trumpism, tells all on the ‘Boxx’ | Afro
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Voting Groups Scramble to Reach College Students in Pandemic | Afro
By BRYAN ANDERSON and SARA BURNETT, Associated Press/Report for America RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Chase Gaines wishes he could get more young people in North Carolina to answer their front doors and take his GOP flyer. Rick Hart longs for the days where he would wake up at 6 a.m. to prep for a day
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From the Jackson/Mitchell Files – More about Our Fight for Freedom | Afro
By Lisa Mitchell Sennaar “I became convinced that the quickest way to get our constitutional rights is to start sitting in the state legislature and other political bodies as members,” Del. Clarence Mitchell III said in 1964. Clarence Mitchell III taught us that all politics is local and that every
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1 Dead in Portland After Trump Supporters, Protesters Clash | Afro
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — One person was shot and killed in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets of the city that has become a flashpoint in the national unrest since
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Farewell Salute to Ms. Indiana Hunt-Martin | Afro
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