By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor Family, friends and community members are mourning and outraged at the murder of 11-year-old Karon Brown, who was involved in an allegedly targeted shooting in Southeast, D.C. Just before 7 p.m. on July 18, members of the Seventh District responded to reports of gunshots on the 2700 block of […]
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Bison STEM Scholars Berlin Bound
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The Howard University Bison STEM Scholars Program – a multi-year program that provides full undergraduate scholarships to students who have committed to pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)- is gearing up for its third cohort of incoming freshman. Cohort 3 is comprised of 30 students, representing […]
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Michelle Obama Inspires First Generation College Students
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com It was a rainy Tuesday morning; yet the Howard University School of Business was filled with beaming, bright first generation college students ready to learn what it takes to thrive from someone who had walked in their shoes- former First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) Michelle Obama. Celebrating […]
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April Ryan to Moderate Presidential Candidates Forum
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization at the forefront of the strategic planning in the fight for justice of Black people for over a century, is hosting its 110th annual convention July 20-24 in Detroit. As the 2020 elections are on the minds […]
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Celebrating Multicultural Media
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The Multicultural Media Correspondents Association (MMCA) of Washington, D.C. celebrated the grind, truth telling and barrier breaking work performed by journalists daily at their annual awards dinner. Held at the National Press Club on July 9, the dinner was fun-filled as comedians Sherri Shepherd and Kym Whitley served as […]
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History Making Politician Dies
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The District of Columbia has lost a history making and barrier breaking politician, as the first Chair of the Home Rule D.C. Council, Sterling Tucker, 95, has passed away. According to The Washington Post, Tucker died on Sunday, July 14, however, the D.C. Council took to Twitter to announce […]
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Local Talent Brings Important Message
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Imagine hearing a conversation in a Target so good, so juicy, so enticing, that you decide it should become a play- then you make it so. That’s what happened to Vernon Williams III and the DC Black Broadway crew after Williams overheard a conversation in 2015. Four […]
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Church Ministers Through Little Library
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church/ Iglesia Episcopal San Mateo in Hyattsville, MD. is using books as a means of bringing education, entertainment and hope to the community. Two days after St. Matthew’s church member Bernard Jarvis, 25, was gunned down in nearby Brentwood in Northeast, D.C., the parish unveiled a […]
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Howard Leads HBCU Awards
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Howard University is leading with 12 finalist nominations in the 2019 HBCU Awards. Presented by HBCU Digest, the HBCU Awards are the first and only national awards ceremony honoring individual and institutional achievements at history Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Known as “The Mecca,” or “Black Ivy” some of […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Teen Artist Tackles Female Oppression Through Art
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com If you don’t know the name Naja Elon Webb now, commit it to your memory. A recent graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Webb has boosted her resume in a major way the summer between high school and freshman year of college at Cooper Union University. From […]
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Pepco Powers Ward 6
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com As the nation celebrated Juneteenth and the official ending to American chattel slavery, Pepco commemorated the historic date with the official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly restored James C. Dent House in Southwest, D.C. Dent was a former slave, turned farmer and pastor of Moriah Baptist Church in S.W, […]
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Officer Tased Innocent Black Man
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In another case of, “racist, White cops,” on June 22 a Black man on D.C.’s metro was tased essentially because he looked like he was about to fight. Yes, you read that right. Not because he put his hands on an officer or committed a crime; but because he, […]
