Results of a recent survey conducted by the Black Futures Lab offers a gauge of the temperature of Black voters ahead of a Nov. 3 midterm elections with stark implications for communities of color.

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The DC Holiday Market returns Nov. 12 to Dupont Circle for its 22nd year, bringing 121 vendors and 40 days of holiday shopping. Whether you celebrate and have gifts to purchase for Christmas, Kwanzaa ...

Baltimore City leaders are working to create more support for those who have faced intimate partner violence (IPV). As part of the 2026-2031 Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan, city leaders want ...

Patricia Ann Alsobrooks, the mother of U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), died at age 79 on Oct. 9, the senator announced. She was preceded in death by her husband, James “Mack” Alsobrooks, who died ...

The AFRO extends its condolences to the family, friends and former colleagues of Rhonda Pringle, who died Oct. 24 in Jacksonville, Fla., after a yearlong battle with cancer. She was 57. The Florida ...

Tamla Olivier, the new CEO of Baltimore Gas and Electric since May 1, previously worked in several companies across the region, from T. Rowe Price, to Pepco Holdings to Exelon Corp. Now serving as the ...

William H. “Billy” Murphy Jr. has invested $1 million dollars into the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, housed within the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. The ...

The HIV/AIDS epidemic spiked in the 1980s, resulting in the death of over 100,000 people from 1981 to 1990, making an irreversible mark on our world from a social, medical, and political perspective.

Dark red bricks and steeply pitched gables define a historic home in Baltimore’s Old Goucher neighborhood that now houses more than 15 Black-owned businesses. From a perfumery and hairstylist to an ...

It is a promise that generations of activists have been demanding America live up to – the 14th Amendment. It says no American should be denied equal protection of the laws and no State shall “deprive ...