At the helm of Baltimore’s three Black news organizations ... As Draper explains it, she was born into “a newspaper family.” The AFRO has remained under the control of Murphy descendants ...

He served a stint as editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper, before moving into the broadcast space. For several years, he hosted the award-winning program “The Anthony ...

The $16 million project in West Baltimore will be completed by late June 2026. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Afro-American newspaper's new home will be Upton Mansion. The $16 million project began with a ...

On the brisk evening of Feb. 13, several women and a few men gathered inside Baltimore’s Stem and ... for the Lovelorn” section in the AFRO-American Newspaper impacted over 71,000 readers ...

As 2024 comes to a close, I am grateful for the fantastic opportunity to write on the local and national level. Baltimore and Washington, D.C., are full of great individuals constantly pushing the ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they ...

a civil rights trailblazer and longtime president of the Baltimore NAACP; John Henry Murphy, founder of The Afro-American Newspaper; Dr. Nellie Louise Young, Maryland’s first African-American ...

We are a media group the Afro American Co. of Baltimore City, Inc. dba the AFRO-American Newspaper. Our decisions must take into account that we are a for profit organization and decisions are ...

Baltimore Center Stage’s (BCS ... a word that was not approved by the contest. Credit: AFRO Archives The first African-American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee would not come ...

When finished, it will become the home of The Afro-American newspaper, as well as a cultural and research center with more than a century of archives chronicling African Americans in Baltimore and ...