THE AFRO — There was a surreal scene in the swanky Harbor East community over the Memorial Day weekend. Billy Murphy, the legendary defense attorney was...
THE AFRO — A Black couple from Maryland was found dead in their resort room in the Dominican Republic, the U.S. State Department has announced. Cynthia Day,...
SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES — Pop Warner Little Scholars, the nation’s oldest youth football, cheer and dance organization and the only one with established academic standards, honored thousands...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — In a show of solidarity, officials from Prince George’s, Montgomery and Frederick counties Monday sent a message to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan: slow down...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The Pigskin Club of Washington, Inc. held its annual Spring Sports Awards banquet Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Upper Marlboro,...
THE AFRO — Rocky Parrish is not the kind of man who likes to ride the wave he makes them. Whether in his one time role as...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan decided to not sign more than 200 bills into law, but he chose to veto eight pieces of legislation.
THE AFRO — They came early and waited longer for a passing glimpse at a reality show icon who is now blazing a trail in the high-end...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Dozens of area residents railed Thursday against a proposal to expand the Capital Beltway in Maryland, as the state mulls seeking out a private firm...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — An effort aimed at bringing billions of dollars of existing cash transactions into the regulated banking sector has resulted in a coalition of 38...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Hundreds of BGE employees celebrated National Volunteer Month in April by volunteering close to 2,000 hours on 51 different arts and culture projects that...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Representatives Cummings and Katko have introduced the Harriet Tubman Tribute Act in 2015, 2017, and most recently in February. The bill, as currently written, directs...
THE AFRO — Morgan State University held its quarterly meeting of the Board of Regents May 7 and one of its longest serving members announced she...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Joy Bramble, publisher of The Baltimore Times, was recently immortalized in wax for her 30-plus years of providing a Black media outlet. Bramble was...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a Committee Staff Report on the prices of...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — In the not-too-distant past, if someone reached the age of 100, society considered that person to be ancient and functionally useless. Today, those...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — As Haile and Shirikiana Aina Gerima have come to learn, operating a bookstore on what’s now one of the District’s fastest-growing corridors comes...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — Maryland Del. Adrienne Jones of Baltimore County was unanimously chosen Wednesday as the state’s new House speaker during a special session among her colleagues....
THE AFRO — With brazen disregard for their African American peers, two White students at a Montgomery County high school posted images of themselves in blackface...
THE AFRO — Prince George’s County’s top three law enforcers spent part of tax day in “a driveby” to save lives. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, State’s Attorney...
THE AFRO — House bill 594, sponsored by the late House Speaker Michael Busch, would prohibit student loan servicers from engaging in any deceptive practice —...
THE AFRO — April 16, 1862 was the official date that slavery was abolished in Washington, D.C. As a result of President Abraham Lincoln’s Compensated Emancipation Act...
THE AFRO — Baltimore has some of the most talented, raw, award winning poets in the nation. In acknowledgement of National Poetry Month. The AFRO kicked off...
WASHINGTON INFORMERS — For nearly a quarter-century, the MetroPCS store on the corner of Florida Avenue and 7th Street in Northwest kept residents and passersby alike...
THE AFRO — The investigation into the apparent homicide of a transgender woman in Fairmount Heights continues in Prince George’s County. Ashanti Carmon, 27, of Alexandria, Va....