Holder will look to address the growing issue of how voting districts are drawn with partisan intentions to dilute actual voting power. This issue is of particular importance to communities of color ...

Congress Hotel sold back to lender for $2.35M The once famous Congress Hotel was sold back to lender Congress Financial LLC Tuesday afternoon for $2.35 million after a brief auction on the steps of ...

Baltimore’s Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse was evacuated Tuesday due to a small fire The fire was reported in an office on the courthouse’s fourth floor, according to John Marsh, a spokesperson ...

Former state Senator and Delegate Clarence M. Mitchell III has died. Mitchell passed away this morning in Baltimore with family at his side after a battle with cancer. He was 72. Mitchell, who was ...

Traces of Legionella were discovered in three courthouses in Baltimore City, the latest in a series of downtown public facilities where the bacteria has been detected. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s ...

The trial for 18-year-old Daaon Spears, accused of participating in the Jan. 4 mass shooting that claimed the life of 16-year-old Deanta Dorsey, began on Oct. 17 inside of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr.

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 created a ...