By Rev. Norman Franklin Vashti Murphy McKenzie, in 2000, became the first female bishop in the more than two-hundred-year history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Murphy shattered the glass ceiling because of her gifts, preaching abilities and her impressive credentials. She was born into the prominent Murphy family on May 28, 1947. Her great-grandfather
By Michelle Richardson, Special to the AFRO Rugby isn’t the first sport that comes to mind when we think of HBCU athletics. We think of football, basketball, and maybe even baseball but rugby?! That’s an Ivy League sport, right? Wrong! Did you know that there are five historically Black colleges with rugby teams? Each team
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com Baltimore housing policy drew fire March 22 from the city’s leading civil rights and housing advocates who are threatening to complain to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development unless inclusionary housing is created here. The Baltimore branch of the NAACP and the Inclusionary Housing Coalition want
By ReShonda Tate, Defender Network Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are increasing their enrollments at a time when many other institutions of higher learning are seeing a decline in their number of students. According to a news report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, college and university enrollment has declined for the third
By Michael Coard As a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., since 1979 at Cheyney University, I call on my beloved pro-Black brothers to do the right thing and boycott racism by canceling or relocating their scheduled July 18-23, 2023, Grand Chapter “Konclave Meetings & Festivities” in Tampa Bay, Florida. I also call
Young children, the head of their school and its custodian. These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting CNN Nashville school shooting: Audrey Hale police bodycams released Fox News How many children have to die like those in Nashville before the US changes its gun laws? The Independent Nashville TV reporter reveals on air she’s a school
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