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House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., pauses as she questions witnesses during a hearing on legal issues relating to football head injuries, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on Capitol…
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The U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday that it will allow servicewomen to wear different types of hairstyles, including ponytails and locs, the Associated Press reports. Black women have long requested…
By Matthew Ritchie, Special to the AFRO The tightest contest of the Maryland State Senate has finally come to a close. On July 6, weeks after the official primary election…
Millions of people around the world use products to bleach the color of their skin. The skin lightening industry is so popular that the global market for skin lightening products…
By Sean Yoes, AFRO Baltimore Editor, There has been much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth within the Democratic Party since U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced…
NFL baller A.J. Francis is understandably livid after TSA agents searched his luggage and left his mother’s urn open, causing her ashes to spill within the suitcase. A.J.’s mother, Carrie…
By Stephen Janis and Taya Graham, Special to the AFRO For nearly a decade, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), has had free reign to spend whatever it deems necessary to…
Taofeek Abijako, 19, became the youngest designer to present a collection at this year’s New York Fashion Week: Men’s. The Nigerian-born designer founded the label Head of State+ just two…
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, According to the Capital Area Food Bank, 641,000 D.C. residents are at risk or currently experience hunger and 200,000 of them are children.…