By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO Maryland Gov. Moore recently appointed six new members to the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) after two members resigned. The twelve members of MHEC board serve a term of five years. Currently the board is operating with eleven members. The new members found themselves quickly immersed in another
By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Face it, it has taken a long time to watch a baseball game from start to finish over the years. America’s pastime has not been America’s fast time. Calling the pace of your average Major League Baseball (MLB) game slow as molasses was just not fair to the crushed sugar
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Patriarchy and paternalism are two forms of oppression that endure in the workplace. Britannica defines the former as a society where men exercise total authority over a community, while it characterizes the latter as a practice of infringement on personal autonomy by an authority. Both have implications for
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Baltimore Business Journal (BBJ) publisher and market president Rhonda Pringle is set to leave her post and join the publication’s parent company, American City Business Journals (ACBJ). She will become the media company’s director of diversity business initiatives. Pringle will take over the position on Oct. 16. In
Evan Gershkovich’s father says “the feeling of helplessness is quite horrific,” but the family clings to hope.
Close encounters with the sun, an astronaut’s long-delayed trip home and more visual highlights from this world and beyond.
A retrospective of the performance artist’s work at the Royal Academy of Arts in London captures boundaries being violently tested and redrawn.
The stumbles of a famed Dutch club are a lesson in fallibility of even the best methods, and a reminder of how fast it can all go wrong at the top of the sport.
More than 50 people were killed in a suicide attack in Mastung, a district in southwestern Pakistan.
US concerned by large Serbian military mobilisation near Kosovo Al Jazeera EnglishKosovo PM supports more NATO troops in the Balkans as tensions with Serbia flare euronewsWhite House warns of escalation between Kosovo, Serbia The HillWhite House warns of ‘unprecedented’ Serbian troop buildup on Kosovo border The GuardianUS urges Serbia to withdraw troops from Kosovo border as tensions rise BBC