By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 “Qualified immunity,” is the modern day legal doctrine that has shielded law enforcement officers and other government officials for decades against lawsuits over their conduct. According to National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg, the Supreme Court this week declined to hear cases seeking to reexamine qualified immunity in the […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 One of the mantras born of the Baltimore Ceasefire Movement is, “Don’t be numb.” The gentle fiat coined by the group’s co-founder Erricka Bridgeford asks us not to be indifferent to the murder and mayhem that continues to ripple throughout our city. “Don’t be numb,” challenges us to […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 The heat was on the owner of the glitzy Ouzo Bay restaurant in Harbor East recently, when a video surfaced depicting an overtly racist dress code policy being enforced by restaurant management last weekend. The video shows Marcia Grant and her nine-year-old son Dallas, a Black boy dressed […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 The public execution of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February was captured on video; if it hadn’t been, the White men charged with his murder would most likely still be free to this day. On Memorial Day, George Floyd was also publicly executed in Minneapolis at the hands […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@yahoo.com In Wilmington, N.C. recently it was revealed some White members of the Wilmington Police Department are just itching for America’s mythical race war — much ballyhooed by some for decades — to begin. “We are just going to go out and just start slaughtering them f—ing ni—-s,” said […]
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The AFRO spoke with F.T. Burden, president and CEO of Soringboard Community Services, formerly known as Family and Children Services of Central Maryland. By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 Black Americans and other people of color continue to suffer more in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most deadly global pandemics […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 It is the consensus of many historians, veteran political observers and everyday people that Donald John Trump is the worst president in the history of the United States. However, the one area where he excels far beyond his 44 predecessors (beyond his outmatched prowess at mendacity) is his […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison spoke exclusively to the AFRO about budget cuts to his department that went into effect on July 1, and the role of law enforcement in Baltimore. Part one of two. The American experience is knit together by a series of transcendent moments many […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 George Mitchell, an omnipresent figure in the Park Heights community of Northwest Baltimore died July 14, due to complications from a surgery. He was 66. Mitchell, who operated the Langston Hughes Community, Business and Resource Center at 5011 Arbutus Ave., in lower Park Heights, allegedly entered the hospital […]
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By Sean Yoes AFRO Baltimore Editor syoes@54.173.194.164 The following was published in the New Orleans Advocate, October 15, 2014, recounting the murder of a woman ordered by a member of the New Orleans Police Department in 1994: “Two decades ago, amid one of the darkest chapters in the city’s history, a flurry of scandals brought […]
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