By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Tanaye White was a marketing, media and public relations professional before she became famous for donning a bikini. Now, as the centerfold model for the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, White is using her platform to raise awareness about the importance of representation in an industry that has […]
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AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor
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Meet the Black Veterinary Technician
Interviewed by Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Jessica Tarpley works at Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic. AFRO: Tell us what you do and why you’re passionate about your work. JT: Veterinary technicians are the nurses charged with the responsibilities of caring for our beloved animal companions; many of the tasks and responsibilities one would […]
Posted inCoronavirus
Masks Everywhere, Mandatory Quarantines From High Risk Locations
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Despite restaurants, bars and shopping centers beginning to reopen, coronavirus is still in the nation’s capital, and Mayor Muriel Bowser has implemented orders effective immediately to slow and prevent the further spread of this pandemic. With more than 11,850 residents testing positive for COVID-19, and counting, Washingtonians must […]
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Psychiatrist Reflects on Kanye
Interviewed By Micha Green AFRO DC Editor On the Fourth of July, rapper, designer and newly minted politician Kanye West declared that he was running for President of the United States; however since his announcement, many people have been worried about his mental health. At his first campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, on […]
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Remembering Radio Legend Patrick Ellis
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Patrick Ellis, 77, who hosted 96.3 WHUR– FM’s “Gospel Spirit Show” for more than 40 years, died on July 16 from complications due to COVID-19. The longtime broadcaster had been in the hospital since last month for treatment of coronavirus, however WHUR sorrowfully announced his passing on July 17. […]
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Civil Rights Icon, Rep. John Lewis Dies at 80
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Representative John Lewis (D- Georgia) spent most of his life- beginning in adolescence- fighting for equality and justice for African Americans; and while the last months of his life were spent battling a beast that may have, at times, seemed greater than racism, the justice fighter fought to […]
Posted inHBCU
D.M.V. Natives Document ‘City on the Hill’, San Francisco
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While D.M.V. natives Xavier Underwood and Adam Fleishman have seen their fair share of homelessness and gentrification, another major city captured the documentarians’ attention due to its disproportionate wealth and housing gap that would even make a Washingtonian clutch their pearls. City on the Hill, produced by Armstrong […]
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Teens Turn School Project Into Booming Business
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Brothers Andrew and Nyles Burton turned their mother’s homeschool assignment of creating a business into a true money making opportunity. With their business Andy Factory and famous product, Uncle Dell’s Mambo Sauce, the two young men are not only creating financial opportunities for them and their families, but […]
Posted inDistrict of Columbia Government
Black Press Matters: Proposed D.C. Tax Hurts Black Media
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Like several industries, media companies are working to recover from the economic effects of coronavirus, and one way is through the economic boost of advertising. However, on July 7, the D.C. Council granted preliminary approval of a three percent sales tax on advertising that could be highly detrimental. […]
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Stop the Violence: 20 Homicides in 14 Days
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com 20 lives lost in just 14 days due to violence in the District. In two weeks people’s mothers, fathers, sons, brothers, sisters, cousins and friends were taken by barrels of guns and the murderers who pulled those triggers. None of them were perfect human beings when they started […]
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We Still #SayHerName: Remembering Sandra Bland 5 Years Later
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Sandra Bland. Say her name for every year since her justice fighting light was dimmed. It’s been five years since Bland was arrested, detained and found hanging three days later in a Waller County, Texas jail cell. Her death was […]
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Stop the Violence: 11-Year-Old is Killed in Violent Weekend
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com In what is, generally, Muriel Bowser’s daily COVID-19 press briefing, the D.C. Mayor took the time to address the violence in the District over the weekend that took the lives of three DMV residents, including that of 11-year-old Davon McNeal on the 1400 block of Cedar Street Southeast. […]