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May 11, 2012 -
Writer William Faulkner in a 1958 interview said, “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” In 2012, Dean Garfield, is employing this sage wisdom to assist the nation’s top tech firms create innovations and jobs to boost the country’s economic engine.more
May 06, 2012 -
African Ancestry, a Washington D.C.-based company which over the past 10-years has accumulated a collection of indigenous African DNA and proprietary DNA matching analysis created by Dr. Rick Kittles to help people discover their African roots, continues to break new ground in genealogy programming. more
May 05, 2012 -
As George Zimmerman’s legal team tries to win his battle in the court of public opinion, disparaging remarks he made about Mexicans on an old MySpace page have handed the team a setback.more
May 05, 2012 -
For years, the leader of the dangerous jihadi movement gave orders while first, on the run and later, from his secret Pakistani compound where he disappeared from the public eye with his family and aides.more
May 05, 2012 -
Fans of Amazon.com’s Kindle eReader will no longer be able to find their beloved device in Target stores. In a daring move, the Minneapolis-based chain store stood by their January threat and took action against online competitors blatantly stealing consumers.more
May 05, 2012 -
Two brothers were among the eight Prince George’s County, Md. students honored at the 2012 Maryland History Day Competition.more
May 04, 2012 -
The U.S. media failed in its coverage of the Trayvon Martin case and many other race-related events and issues, a panel of journalists recently acknowledged at a W.K. Kellogg Foundation gathering.more
May 03, 2012 -
Trumping numerous newspapers throughout the region, the AFRO scooped up a first place win in this year's Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association Awards.
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May 03, 2012 -
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed four bills into law May 2 that provide protections to workers serving jury duty, tighten regulations on gun ownership, protect asbestos workers and make impersonating a transit police officer illegal.more
May 02, 2012 -
Florida prosecutors said 13 students have been charged in the death of Robert Champion, the Florida A&M University drum major who died last year after a hazing incident.more
April 28, 2012 -
Most of the justices—except for conservative Justice Antonin Scalia—seemed concerned about giving the state free rein to make its own immigration policies, apart from those determined by federal lawmakers. more
April 28, 2012 -
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier allegedly responsible for leaking sensitive information to the WikiLeaks website, will have to face all 22 charges brought against him in a military court of law, an Army judge ruled April 26.more
April 27, 2012 -
A federal appeals court has rejected an element of Arizona’s controversial citizenship law, a decision civil rights advocates called a significant victory against fast-growing voter suppression efforts nationwide.more
April 27, 2012 -
Kansas has become the new battleground in the fight to expand the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community as city councils in Lawrence, Hutchinson, Salina, Wichita, and Pittsburg are weighing whether to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to protected classes under the jurisdiction’s civil rights laws. more
April 27, 2012 -
Fast food giant Burger King has agreed to be more humane to the food consumed every day by its customers across the globe. more
April 27, 2012 -
A game-winning goal scored by Washington Capitals forward Joel Ward, a Black Canadian, in overtime of game seven against the Boston Bruins April 25 set off a rash of racist tweets that have many in the sports world upset.more
April 27, 2012 -
The final decision over Michigan’s controversial emergency manager law will be left up to the courts, after a referendum seeking to repeal the law failed to make it onto the November ballot.more
April 26, 2012 -
No one knows for sure what happened in that fateful elevator ride in Tulsa, Okla.’s Drexel Building on May 30, 1921. All history records is that Dick Rowland, an African-American shoe shiner, stepped into the freight car where Sarah Page, a White woman, served as the operator.more
April 25, 2012 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate offered a lifeline to the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, voting to give the struggling agency an $11 billion cash infusion while delaying controversial decisions on closing post offices and ending Saturday delivery.more
April 25, 2012 -
For “better or worse,” “in sickness and in health,” and “for richer or poorer” have served as the bedrock for wedding vows for centuries. However during the past 30 years “for worse,” “in sickness” and “for poorer” are the vows all too often forsaken by many couples struggling in their marriage. Divorce serves as the solution for those stuck in a marriage rut; and has been particularly destructive in the African-American community. more
April 25, 2012 -
THE ROCKS hosted their 2012 National Leadership and Training Conference at the Fort Belvoir, Va. Officer’s Club under the theme, “Mentoring Military Professionals for Global Leadership.”more
April 25, 2012 -
In a tenure bracketed by controversy, ESSENCE Magazine’s White managing editor was asked to leave the publication April 20 after his right-wing Facebook posts were brought to the editors’ attention.more
April 25, 2012 -
Anyone who stayed up late Tuesday night got to see President Barack Obama play straight man to a seemingly nervous Jimmy Fallon on his regularly scheduled show. With usual “cool joe” demeanor, the President took his campaign to the campus of University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.more
April 24, 2012 -
In the blockbuster relationship comedy Think Like a Man, the women in the film turn to radio personality-turned relationship guru Steve Harvey's book to "flip the script" on their mates to improve their tanking relationships.more
April 21, 2012 -
“I feel like I’m 18,” says Hannah Plummer, sitting in her Germantown home, draped in her finest pearls. Surrounded by her family, the mother of five turned 103 April 14 and spent it with family and friends.more
April 21, 2012 -
Wisconsin has repealed a three-year-old law that allowed pay discrimination complaints to be pursued in state courts. Gov. Scott Walker (R), who faces a recall election June 5, quietly signed the bill on Good Friday, along with scores of other laws that Walker critics claim reflect an anti-woman, anti-middle class tone for the state.
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April 21, 2012 -
A U.S. appeals court has rejected an element of Arizona’s controversial citizenship law in a decision civil rights advocates are claiming as a significant victory against fast-growing voter suppression efforts nationwide.more
April 20, 2012 -
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their login information for social media sites like Facebook.more
April 20, 2012 -
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced April 19 that an examination of the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law led by Florida’s first Black female lieutenant governor and a prominent Tallahassee Black minister is to get underway May 1. more
April 20, 2012 -
Martin Delany was a man who made a habit of defying the odds. He was self-educated in a time when, for Blacks, being educated could mean death. He was a physician, author, business owner and military pioneer at a time when African Americans were still counted as chattel and their intelligence doubted.more
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