D.C. Community Calendar
Sat., August 3
CivicFest
This free event combines music, dance, art, volunteer opportunities, fun and thought-provoking workshops and more on Saturday, from 12-8 pm at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park in Columbia Heights.
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Baltimore Community Calendar
Tues., August 6
For the Culture Trivia Night
Trivia Night will never be the same! Come experience Its Blackademic Trivia at Noir Restaurant & Lounge at 5716 York Rd. The trivia is unapologetically black, come out...
AFRO Washington D.C. Community Calendar
Sun., July 28
The Coconut Market
Come celebrate African, Asian, Caribbean and Latin-American cultures to create the most unique shopping experience. This free event creates an amazing atmosphere for many people of different ages to be...
AFRO Baltimore Community Calendar
Sun., July 28
Harbor East Summer Sidewalk Sale 2019
This free event creates a great day to escape mental prisons with some retail therapy with the annual sidewalk sale. Come and enjoy different cocktails and drinks...
AFRO Community Calendar
July Black Power Happy Hour
Thursdays this Month
Come fellowship with Baltimore’s grassroots leaders while supporting a local, Black owned business. This a great way to network, learn and build with great Black minds around...
AFRO Community Calendar
SEFEL Pyramid Model Leadership Training of Trainers.
June 20-21, 2019.
The Maryland SEFEL Pyramid Model Leadership Team, with MSDE sponsorship, is seeking applications from individuals who meet the criteria outlined below and are interested in becoming...
AFRO Community Connections
Blackout Poetry
Celebrate National Poetry Month. Create your own poem! No writing required. Instead of starting with a blank page, start with a page full of words and cross out the ones you don't...
RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO
Hello everyone, Happy New Year to you all. I am hoping that this year will be much better than the last for us all. God has blessed us...
Building the Faith on a Firm Family Foundation
By Jacquinette D. Murphy, North Dallas Gazette Contributing Writer
“I have the BEST job in the world!”
Apostle Herman L. Murray recently declared these words to the congregation of the Full Gospel Holy Temple Churches, Incorporated....
American Red Cross: Help Fight A Blood Shortage
DRO Headquarters. Red Cross employee Bob Otwell prepares blood products including FFP, Whole Blood and Platelets for distribution to nearby hospitals. These blood products were a part of regularly scheduled transports to area hospitals.
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Norton, Bowser and Youth Demand DC’s Right to Gun Control
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser led a first-of-its-kind panel of District political powerhouses in a conversation about the impact of the Federal Government’s...
Baltimore Health Ministries Issues Appeal to Clergy
By AFRO Staff
The Health Ministries Network, which “establish a clearinghouse for mobilizing personal participation in available health care initiatives through community churches and other local faith-based organizations,” will be holding an organizational meeting April...