By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Despite Mayor Muriel Bowser’s controversial denunciation of mambo sauce as a D.C. staple last November, most Washingtonians laud the flavor as a true District flavor that adds pizzazz to dishes from the carry out to homemade delights. Now, having recently teamed up with local husband and wife entrepreneurs Charles […]
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AFRO Exclusive: Kim R. Ford Becomes First Black Woman to Lead Martha’s Table
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com After six years of service from Patty Stonesifer, who announced her retirement in November 2018, Martha’s Table announced its new President and CEO Kim R. Ford, who will be the first Black woman to lead the organization when she begins on April 1. The native Washingtonian said she is […]
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March for Our Schools Rallies for Adequate Funding and Equal Opportunities
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Maryland leaders, teachers, parents and students rallied in Annapolis to advocate for adequate funding for schools and to ensure that all students in each district have access to proper education and tools necessary for learning at the March for Our Schools on March 11. According to the March for […]
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Black Girls Rock! Fest Takes Over Kennedy Center
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com From Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Madame C.J. Walker, Oprah, Beyoncé, Michelle Obama and others, it does not take Women’s History Month, to know that Black girls have always rocked, yet the District got an extra reminder when the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hosted the three […]
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40-Year-Old Mother Killed by FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitive
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Police and family members alike are searching for answers, motive and more after Natina Kiah, a mother of four and security guard at a D.C. homeless shelter, was stabbed to death on March 5. After admitting to his crime when pursued hours later, officers believe that Kiah’s murderer is […]
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UNCF Celebrates 75 Years
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) celebrated 75 years of providing financial opportunities for young Black scholars attending college this week in Northwest, D.C. The annual national “A Mind Is…” gala is a tribute organization’s signature slogan, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Since 1944, UNCF along […]
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Students Bring Historic Performances from Southeast to the Kennedy Center
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Children from the Department of Recreation’s Southeast Tennis and Learning Center (SETLC) are entertaining and educating audiences from ‘East of the River’ to the Kennedy Center with their 13th annual “Blacks in Wax” performance, with this year’s theme, “Young, Gifted and WOKE.” On Friday, March 15 at THEARC in […]
Posted inNEWS, Prince George's County News
11-Year-Old Charged in Connection With Baby’s Death
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com An 11-year-old girl was charged with first-degree child abuse and is in custody after one-year-old Paxton Davis was severely injured after being left in her care. According to Prince George’s County Police Department (PGPD), approximately 3:25 p.m., police responded to an area hospital after reports of an injured baby […]
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White Hyattsville Principal Apologizes for Uses N-Word
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In this week’s news of White people using the n-word, a Hyattsville principal is apologizing after saying the derogatory term in front of students during a Black History month program last week. Fox 5 D.C. reported that Joy Morrow, principal of New Hope Academy, stepped in last minute to […]
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PGCPS Launces Apprenticeship Program
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com The National Skills Coalition reported that middle-skills jobs, which requires a high school diploma but not four-year degree, make up the largest segment of the labor market in all 50 states, and that’s why Prince George’s County is taking the lead in the state of Maryland to ensure that […]
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D.C. to Selma: A Pilgrimage for the People
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com On March 7, 1965 one of the most violent days of the Civil Rights Movement occurred as peaceful marchers were brutally attacked and beaten by state troopers and men as they tried to cross along the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, AL to the state capital of Montgomery. That […]
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Busboys and Poets Opens in Anacostia
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Despite the history laid within the asphalt of its streets and a bustling culture, D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood in Southeast, has in recent years experienced a pall of bad reputations from violence and crime. However, as many District neighborhoods have undergone in the past, Anacostia is experiencing a resurgence […]