By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com After a little more than two months in the chair, Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned this week in the wake of three federal misdemeanor charges of not filing income taxes in 2013, 2014 and 2015. However, it seems abundantly clear to many that there is much more connected […]
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Mosby Announces Debate Schedule, Defends Record
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Veteran defense attorney Ivan Bates and former Maryland Deputy Attorney General Thiru Vignarajah, both vying to unseat Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, have both accused her of ducking them on the debate stage. Mosby replied to those accusations by releasing the dates and venues for debates she says she […]
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Balt. Co. Executive, Gubernatorial Candidate Kamenetz Dies Suddenly
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Kevin Kamenetz, the two-term Baltimore County Executive and gubernatorial candidate died early this morning of cardiac arrest, sending shockwaves across the state. He was 60. According to a press release by Baltimore County Police, Kamenetz was at his home in Owings Mills when he awoke around 2 a.m. saying that […]
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Eastside Races Heating Up
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Two Maryland Senate races in East Baltimore have aligned two venerable Eastside politicians; Sen. Joan Carter Conway (D-43) and Sen. Nathaniel McFadden (D-45), against Del. Mary Washington (D-43) and Del. Cory McCray (D-45), two challengers. Here is how the battle for the 43rd and 45th District Senate seats lines up. […]
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Exclusive: Hogan Appoints Carter to 41st Dist. Senate Seat
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Jill P. Carter, director of Baltimore City Office of Civil Rights, has been appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan take over the 41st District Senate seat, recently vacated by Nathaniel Oaks. Oaks resigned the West Baltimore senate seat last month after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges. Jill P. Carter, director […]
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Congress and the President Must Respond to the Opioid Crisis
By Elijah Cummings, Special to the AFRO Recently, in front of a Baltimore restaurant, I watched as a young man was pushed out of a car, unconscious, and on to the sidewalk in front of us – and I was told that this happens more often than one would think. The young man, suffering from […]
