Baltimore ranked second in the Community Justice Action Fund’s 2025 Violence Prevention Index, which assesses cities’ ...
Three August primary victories reveal just how complicated race and representation have become in the Sunshine State. Florida politics has always had its share of strange reflections. But after ...
Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, the paramount ruler of Ghana’s Ashanti Kingdom, celebrated Akwasidae Festival at Bowie State University on Aug. 30, ...
East Baltimore Development, Inc. (EBDI) and Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) today jointly announced a strategic alignment designed to build on more than two decades of investment and ...
Crusader Update: According to activists working with the family of Trey Reed, a second, independent autopsy revealed the Delta State University student had blunt force trauma to the back of the head ...
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Over the years the AFRO has had the privilege of capturing a range of tea events in Black society. Whether to honor mothers in the community or simply fellowship and reassure social bonds, gathering ...
What does racial healing actually look like in the lives of Black Americans — and what stands in the way? This report, produced by Word In Black’s Insights and Research Division, draws on original ...
Over the past four years, during what is often referred to as the George Floyd era, we witnessed a remarkable shift in the financial landscape. Investors from diverse backgrounds have significantly ...
In 1925, labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph was invited to be the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids. It was the first Black union to ...
Maryland Comptroller Brooke E. Lierman (D) has appointed Andrea Brown as director of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate. Brown has served with the Comptroller’s Office since 2006, where she most ...
After all of the publicity about Dorie Miller's heroic efforts by March of 1942, there was pressure on President Franklin D. Roosevelt from all over the United States to give Doris Miller the Medal of ...