August 23, 2014 - August 29, 2014, The Afro-American
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Felicia Murphy-Phillips and Edgar Brookins
Emcees Michael E. Cryor and Dr. OluwaTosin Adegbola
Jake Oliver, publisher/CEO AFRO-American newspaper, George Murphy III, Benjamin Murphy Phillips IV, president, AFRO -American newspaper and Lori Murphy Lee
On Aug. 15, the AFRO celebrated its 122-year anniversary with a black tie-optional gala at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in downtown Baltimore. On Aug. 13, 1892, John Henry Murphy Sr., a former slave who gained freedom following the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, built the AFRO when he combined his church publication, The Sunday School Helper with two other church publications, The Ledger and The Afro-American. By 1922, the newspaper had evolved from a one-page weekly church publication into the most widely circulated Black paper along the coastal Atlantic. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, the African-American voter equality campaign that launched in Mississippi in June 1964. The AFRO, during its gala, paid tribute to the patriots of this movement including some of the AFRO’s own reporters and photographers. The newspaper also honored a particular group of people who played an integral role in establishing its legacy – AFRO paperboys and papergirls.
Tiffany Jones, Kisja Brown, Caryn York
Alan Maddox, Jeanne Toungara and Priscilla Chatman
Owen and Barbara Lee
Beverly Cooper, John Carter, Brenda Blount, Beverly Carter
Patricia Roberts, Sara Smalley and Landa McLaurin, president of the Baltimore Metropolitan Chapter of the National Coalition 100 Black Women
Erica F. Cryor and Edith GreeneJohnson
Dale Berry and Beverly Richards
Oscar Boulware and Rev. Dorothy Boulware, editor, AFRO American newspaper
Diane W. Hocker, AFRO Director, Community & Public Relations, Denise Dorsey, AFRO production manager and Dr.OluwaTosin Adegbola
Calvin Butler Jr., CEO, BGE, and wife, Sharon
Rev. Dr. Richard Adams
LaTrina Antoine, AFRO D.C. editor and Kimberleigh De Laine
Reginald Exum, Cheryl Leigh
David and Yvonne Rhone
Chief Judge Robert M. Bell (Ret.), Michael Cryor, Judge Marcella Holland
Ja-Zette Marshburn, AFRO archivist and Nasja Frazier-Griffin, AFRO intern