More than 3,000 bishops, delegates and observers convened at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta for the 48th Quadrennial Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Zion Church, July 16 – 22. This year’s conference will go down in history, as the Rev. Dr. Mildred “Bonnie” Hines,...
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CAMBRIDGE – On July 21, Cambridge, Md. set its new history on course with the swearing in of Victoria Jackson-Stanley as the first African American and the first female mayor of the city. For the first time in years, the taking the oath of office was an event, with approximately 300 people in attendance along with both print and television media outlets.
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CINCINNATI (July 14) – It was a gutsy—some might argue calculated—move, but somehow Sen. Barack Obama pulled it off. After the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a respected member of the old civil rights guard, was recorded criticizing Obama’s speeches about personal and community responsibility among African Americans,...
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Hill Harper’s most influential role to date is, perhaps, that of mentor. The talented stage and television actor first tackled this role in his first book, Letters to a Young Brother in which he addressed the issues that plague many of today’s fatherless young black men.
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Resurrection, one of the “hot” plays to look forward to in the fall season, will have its world premiere on Aug. 29 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. A sobering look at some of the issues facing Black males, Resurrection is written by Daniel Beaty, whose Emergency (formerly known as Emergence-SEE!) dazzled Arena audiences last summer.
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After 10 years on Broadway and six years as a traveling tour, Disney has finally reached out to the Kennedy Center to secure a nine-week theatrical run of one of America’s family classics, The Lion King.
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Pioneering black sportscaster Sherman “Jocko” Maxwell, who chronicled the triumphs of Negro league baseball players before the color barrier fell, has died at the age of 100.
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San Francisco 49ers tight end and former University of Maryland star Vernon Davis held his Stop the Violence Football Clinic for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington last Friday at his alma mater Dunbar High School.
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Six-time Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Taylor held his first press conference as a Washington Redskin on Monday following his move from the Miami Dolphins and showed genuine excitement about calling a new city home for the first time in his 11 year-career.
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