By Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown The unpaid work of Black women is the foundation of this country’s economic and political structures. Despite the significance of our contributions, our work must be more consistently valued and equitably paid. It is a tradition that we must be intentional about how Black women are honored, celebrated, supported, and
By Catherine Pugh, Special to the AFRO The Randallstown NAACP created a task force nearly eight months ago to focus on the revitalization of the nine mile corridor of Liberty Road, which starts at the Baltimore City/County line and travels up to Deer Park Road. Recently, they released the results of the task force with
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Since negotiating a contract to acquire the Edmondson Village Shopping Center for $17,050,000, Black-owned Chicago TREND has invited Black entrepreneurs, local impact investors and residents to support the redevelopment of the Southwest Baltimore shopping center. The commercial real estate company launched a crowdfunding campaign through SmallChange.com for Baltimoreans
By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO Students from some 200 area schools spent time in Annapolis on March 2, protesting cuts to a program that for years has allowed their parents to keep them in the school of their choice. Since 2016, Broadening Options and Opportunities for Students Today Scholarship Program (BOOST
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com A $2 million investment from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Program will help bridge West Baltimore communities currently divided by the “Highway to Nowhere” which extends from N. Warwick Avenue to Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Located in the 7th congressional district, the “Highway to Nowhere”
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com Governor Wes Moore has instructed the Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA) to conduct a new procurement process to determine who will hold the contract for concessions offered at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI). The directive comes after the MAA recommended New Market Development, a local, Black-founded development firm
By Marnita Coleman, Special to the AFRO The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, conducted spring cleaning a bit early this year by voting out five member churches with women in pastoral positions. A sixth SBC church was ousted for alleged clergy sexual abuse. Although each congregation is self-governing, the SBC’s guidelines
By Hannah Ziegler, Capital News Service After a mild winter in the Washington metro region triggered some local cherry blossom trees to bloom in early February, the National Park Service announced Wednesday that this spring’s peak bloom for the iconic trees will occur between March 23-25. The announcement signals that warmer winter weather across the
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By Alfredo Peña, Fabiola Sánchez and Travis Loller, The Associated Press A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast before they were rescued from