NEWS
By Paul West | January 31, 2009
Washington - Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele survived a five-hour ballot marathon to win election yesterday as the first African-American chairman of the Republican Party. Steele was regarded as an outsider and an underdog in the five-way leadership contest. The other top contenders were all sitting members of the Republican National Committee, which had not reached outside its membership for a chairman in a contested election in more than 30 years. "This is a remarkable moment," Steele told a post-election news conference.
NEWS
By JEAN MARBELLA | February 6, 2007
Maybe Joe Biden just verbalized what a lot of people were thinking. He did it crudely, of course, and the senator from Delaware has been roundly and rightly pundit-pummeled for calling Barack Obama, one of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." That sound you're hearing is merely the bursting of a big thought bubble that's been hovering unspoken over the heads of many people.
FEATURES
September 12, 2007
African-American photo exhibit Learn about the African-Americans who settled in Howard County in the exhibit Native African American Families of Howard County, Maryland: 1875-1950, at James Clark Library, Howard Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia. The exhibit, which includes more than 300 photos, is based on photos and information submitted by families in the area. Library hours today are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Free. Information: www.hccaacres.org. FYI Sun art critic Glenn McNatt is on assignment.
NEWS
October 7, 2007
Oct. 7 Dance performance -- VT Dance, featuring choreographer Vincent Thomas, performs, 5 p.m. at Morgan State University, Murphy Fine Arts Center, 2201 Argonne Drive. Free. 443-885-4440. Oct. 10 Author talk -- Dr. Willarda Edwards discusses her book The Black Woman's Guide to Black Men's Health, 6:30 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library, 400 Cathedral St. Free. 410-396-5430. Oct. 11 Soul concert -- Singer/songwriter Ryan Shaw performs, 8 p.m. at Rams Head Tavern, 33 West St., Annapolis.
NEWS
By Photos by Amy Davis | January 15, 2007
The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis expanded with a four-story addition almost a year ago after outgrowing its space in the restored Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church. The current exhibit, Trails, Tracks, Tarmac, highlights African-American communities in northern Anne Arundel County through artifacts, oral-history recordings and documentary quilts. Museum director Wendi Perry says she is planning more programs to share African-American culture with a wider audience.
NEWS
January 28, 2007
The villages of Columbia, African Art Museum of Maryland, Howard County Center of African American Culture and Columbia Association will sponsor an afternoon program, "Roots of Howard County in Celebration of African-American History," from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 11 at Historic Oakland, 5430 Vantage Point Road, Columbia. Admission is free. The event, which will commemorate Black History Month, will include a visit to the African Art Museum of Maryland, displays organized by the Howard County Center of African American Culture, children's entries in the Columbia Association's "Images of Freedom" poster contest, a musical performance by Rae Bernard of Harmony of Sol and a panel of speakers that is to include Maggie J. Brown, Herman Charity, C. Vernon Gray, Morgan Rollins, Barbara Russell, Jean Toomer and Diop Wallace.
NEWS
By McClatchy-Tribune | March 4, 2007
LOS ANGELES -- It took political officials nearly a month to respond to the slaying of Cheryl Green. Since then, the 14-year-old African-American girl has become the face of brown-on-black violence in this city. The FBI has joined the Los Angeles Police Department in cracking down on gangs. The police department, breaking with tradition, has publicly named the city's worst 11 gangs. And a city-sponsored report has called for an anti-gang "Marshall Plan," a reference to the post-World War II tactic of making massive investments to win the peace in former enemy territory.
NEWS
By Tom Pelton | March 9, 1999
The leaders of two black political organizations in Annapolis revealed a split among African-American leaders yesterday when they asked Anne Arundel County to allow signs crediting the Ku Klux Klan with collecting roadside litter.Robert Eades, chairman of the African American Unity Coalition, said the county would violate the Klan's right to free speech if it barred the group from joining the county's Adopt-A-Road program.Eades appeared at a news conference held by the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, which demanded last week that County Executive Janet S. Owens lift the county's prohibition on the Klan's participation in the program.
FEATURES
By David Zurawik | July 20, 1999
LOS ANGELES -- Was it only 10 months ago that UPN was being denounced by African-American groups over its then-new sitcom, "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfieffer"?Talk about turnaround. The network is now the home of some of the best black talent in Hollywood and proud of it.UPN yesterday showcased its African-American programming for television critics gathered here for the summer press tour, and it was an impressive sight.After the NAACP threat to sue the four major networks over the fact that none of their 27 new fall series will have a leading character who is black, it was a chance to hear what black actors, writers and producers have to say about the sociology of the images they create.
FEATURES
June 29, 1999
Be a 4Kids DetectiveWhen you know the answers to these questions, go to http://www.4Kids.org/detectives/1. When did Peter the Great rule Russia? (Go to http://www.alvr.com/1imperial2.html to find out.)2. What are the 2 main types of African rock art?3. Fact or Fiction: The Galapagos islands have never been connected to a continent.LEGEND AND LEGACYDiscover the legends, opinions and insights of African-American culture by visiting African-American History Through the Arts, a detailed Web site that covers various periods of creative thought over thousands of years.