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Maryland General Assembly 2021: GOP stealthily push for mandatory minimums, advocates argue | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com With less than two weeks before the end of what many believe is a consequential 2021 Maryland General Assembly, legislators and advocates are grappling to secure perhaps the most meaningful law enforcement reform legislation in decades. However, SB 852 is sounding alarms for some of those legislators and […]

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Written by Paul Meara via BET Chaos broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon (January 6) after Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to faceoff with lawmakers. In a speech that afternoon he urged them to go to the Capitol and make their feelings heard to lawmakers. “We will not let

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A Black Man in America | Afro

By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com I was on vacation last week, but more accurately I was on a mission. My lady Morine and I drove to seven cities in seven days: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Santa Fe, Williams, (The Grand Canyon) and San Diego. The overarching mission was

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Ezekiel Elliott and Other Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans Players Test Positive for the Coronavirus

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By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As a District of Columbia Public Schools and Howard University graduate, Loretta Whitfield, who died on Dec. 27 at the age of 79, knew the value of representation. Whitfield and her husband Melvin Whitfield established Lomel

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By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press The nationwide reexamination of policing after the killing of George Floyd has led an Ivy League college town in upstate New York to consider an ambitious — and contentious — plan to remake its force “from the ground up.” The proposal would replace the 63-officer

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National Urban League grieves the passing of former president Vernon Jordan | Afro

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Plans to unveil a bust of Marcus Garvey in Ethiopia revealed | Afro

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Now, 81 years after his death, officials in Ethiopia plan to unveil a Bronze Sculpture in Addis Ababa to honor the legacy of the Pan African independence movement architect. According to a news release, the sculpture highlights Ethiopia as a focal point for Pan-Africanists to engage

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