By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff The Greater Washington Urban League (GWUL) is celebrating financial literacy month with a series of free events that are focused on helping people develop financial habits that’ll benefit them now and later! The first part of a two part series about negotiating in the workplace and what it can do […]
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Founders First CDC announces third annual grant for mompreneurs
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Sixty-two percent of women entrepreneurs have noted that their businesses as their primary source of income. Statistics like this help establish the idea that women owning and starting businesses is a serious matter. No longer to be thought of as a casual hobby for women. Founders First recognizes just how […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Funktopia’s newest production ‘The Dark Tower’ honors Harlem Renaissance pioneer A’Lelia Walker
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Three words to describe Baltimore theater group “Funktopia” are intentional, unapologetic and charismatic! With a heavy focus on honoring those who have come before them, Funktopia is continuing to uphold this tradition with their latest production “The Dark Tower.” Based on A’Lelia Walker and the salons she held at her […]
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Funeral service for Rev. Dr. Alfred C.D. Vaughn draws elected officials, faith leaders and friends from around the country
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Hundreds packed into West Baltimore’s Sharon Baptist Church on the corner of Presstman and Stricker streets on April 1 to honor the life and legacy of the Baltimore legend, the Rev. Dr. Alfred C.D. Vaughn. “Don’t you hear the bells ringing? Don’t you hear the angels singing ‘Glory, Hallelujah? Jubilee!’ […]
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Lewis Museum and Baltimore Healthy Start to hold brunch honoring leaders in Black maternal health
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Baltimore Healthy Start is working with the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture to host the first annual Leaders in Black Maternal Health Awards Luncheon. Through both art and education the two organizations plan to shine a light on the importance of health advocacy and […]
Posted inBaltimore News
Increase in youth violence leaves young people across the nation in grief
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Standing over the body of Deanta Dorsey, shot and killed on Jan. 4 in Baltimore, the friends he made in his short lifetime could only weep. Roughly a dozen children held each other up at his casket as the true tragedy of the teen’s death came into sharp focus: these […]
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Darryl Odum, first Black person to work in higher management of construction industry, dies
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Writer Darryl Odum was born July 26,1947 in Baltimore, Md. A product of Baltimore Public Schools, Odum attended PS#148, Garrison Junior High and Carver High. Following his graduation in 1965, he furthered his education at Maryland State College Eastern Shore, now University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where he studied construction […]
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Mera Kitchen Collective creates a community with international cuisine
By Aria Brent, Special to the AFRO Food is something that is so personal all the while being extremely universal. Regardless of where you’re from, how it’s prepared or what utensils are used- everybody eats. Often tied to some of people’s most sentimental memories, food is a vessel for love and camaraderie. Mera Kitchen Collective […]
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Say their names: communities across the country mourn young lives stolen by gun violence
By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Deanta Dorsey didn’t know that his life would end during his lunch period on Jan. 4. Hanging out with four of his friends outside of a fast food restaurant just across from his school, Edmondson–Westside High, the bullets came for him. “He was not in the wrong place and it […]