By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com It’s been over eight weeks since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a stay-at-home order for District residents and more than ten weeks since most of the city has been shutdown and in quarantine, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the fact that the novel coronavirus is still very […]
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D.C. Moving in Direction of Phased Reopening
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com It’s been over two months since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged District residents to stay at home and enacted an emergency shutdown of non-essential businesses due to COVID-19. Although she said D.C. would begin reopening on June 8, late last week, statistics showed tremendous improvement and Bowser hinted […]
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Documentary Stamps Prince George’s Basketball Skills
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Although it is a Maryland suburb with one of some of America’s wealthiest Blacks per capita, Prince George’s County is somewhat overshadowed in national attention by the major city it borders- the nation’s capital. However, in the new documentary “Basketball County: In the Water,” area natives and basketball […]
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Bowser Releases Budget Amid COVID Crisis
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Amid the coronavirus pandemic plaguing the nation’s capital, with 7,434 residents testing positive and 400 lives lost as of May 18, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser released her Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Proposed Budget, which she has named #DCHOPE. Despite the economic concerns surrounding the Mayor’s emergency […]
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Millennial Politicians Fight for Equity in D.C.
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While the District of Columbia may have a reputation for having long-serving leaders such as: former Mayor and current Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7); former Council member Jack Evans (who served for about 28 years on the Council before his resignation in January); Mayor Muriel Bowser, who […]
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Meet Ward 7 Candidate Veda Rasheed
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray served on the Council before being mayor and most recently has held the seat of Ward 7 Council member since 2016. While the incumbent has a resume filled with experience, a local Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and attorney, Veda Rasheed, is hoping to dethrone […]
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Meet the Farmer
Interviewed By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Herbert A. Brown, Sr. is the owner and operator of Browntown Farm, 255 Browntown Road, in Warfield, Virginia. AFRO: What is your exact title, what are your responsibilities and duties and how do you execute your position? Brown: I am the owner and operator of Browntown Farms […]
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Alternate Care Site Opens at Convention Center
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to plague the area without flattening of the curve, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser was pleased to showcase the alternative care site to support the nation’s capital’s battle against the novel coronavirus at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest, D.C. In her […]
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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Dying
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com The U.S. Census Bureau reports that African Americans make up 13.4 percent of the U.S. population. However, that portion of the population is being disproportionately affected by the novel coronavirus, and when partnering those statistics with homicide rates and health figures (heart disease, diabetes, etc…), keeping it real, […]
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#TeachersAppreciation
Interviewed by Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com Happy Teacher’s Appreciation Week! The AFRO salutes teachers all year round, but during these unprecedented times, the world has truly seen that educators are real-life superheroes that are essential to society. As we celebrate all teachers, this week we’re highlighting District of Columbia Public Schools middle school science […]
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Despite COVID-19 Mayor Launches Crime Prevention Plans
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com While Mayor Muriel Bowser’s current COVID-19 response involves a stay-at-home order and closure of non-essential businesses through May 15, statistics in the District of Columbia do not support that re-opening target, with more than 5,100 residents having tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the beginning of the […]
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Organizations Celebrate Essential Workers with Protest, GoGo
By Micha Green AFRO D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As the saying goes, “When White America catches a cold, Black America gets the flu,” and much of the reasoning behind that fact-based adage is due to issues of institutionalized, systemic and environmental racism. With the 50th anniversary of Earth Day last week and the current COVID-19 pandemic, […]