By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Army soldier Damon Dickens, 23, was visiting family after completing basic training when he was killed in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24—and now 17-year-old Jamal Blocker is being charged as an adult for his alleged murder. The recently married Dickens was found suffering of gunshot wounds outside of […]
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AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor
Posted inINTERNATIONAL, National News, NEWS
Ghana Welcomes African Americans Back Home
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Four centuries ago Africans were taken from the Ghanaian coast and shipped to the Americas, and now 400 years later the country is calling her descendants back home. At a luncheon on Sept. 28, American and Ghanaian dignitaries, Pan African advocates, spiritual leaders and the President of Ghana His […]
Posted inDistrict of Columbia Government, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
Some District Taxes and Age Restrictions on the Rise, Feminine Hygiene Taxes Cut
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Oct. 1 marked the beginning of the 2019 fiscal year, which also meant tax changes for those who spend money in the District of Columbia. The general sales tax has grown by a quarter of a percentage point to 6 percent, according to WAMU. Also increasing by the same […]
Posted inNEWS, Washington D.C. News
Powerful Women Rally in Support of Council Candidate Dionne Reeder
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Black Girl Magic filled the home of Marie Johns in Northwest, D.C. on September 30, as she welcomed several distinguished women in support of Dionne Reeder, a small-business owner who is running for the D.C. City Council At-Large seat. Johns, the former deputy administrator for the U.S. Small Business […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
DC Schools Don’t Have Enough Transit Cards for Students
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com An underestimation in the amount of transit cards needed for District students could leave a lot of kids, stuck at the Metro or not at school starting next week. Starting October 1, students will be unable to use city-issued D.C. One Cards, which allowed students to ride the Metrorail, […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
4 Dead in 14 Hours in DC
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com There are three more months in the year and yet in one evening, four men were killed surpassing the District’s homicide rate by three in 14 hours. Before surpassing the homicide rate there was a shooting on Monday in Southeast, D.C. that left 23-year-old Damon Dickens of Woodbridge, Virginia […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
Senior Woman Thanks Rescuer After Being Saved from Blaze
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Last Wednesday about 160 residents were displaced when the Arthur Capper Senior Building, a Southeast, D.C. senior housing complex, caught on fire. Despite losing their homes there were no lives lost. One of the senior survivors was 73-year-old Bettye Carter- who has D.C. firefighter Da’Von McCrae to thank for […]
Posted inNEWS, Prince George's County News
Police Search for Answers in Greenbelt Homicide
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Prince George’s County Homicide Unit detectives are searching for clues in the a 26-year-old man in Greenbelt who was shot and killed. The victim has been identified as Lamont Woods of Hanover Parkway in Greenbelt. At approximately 2:15 a.m. on September 18, officers responded to a shooting on the […]
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New DC Housing Complex Caters to Grandfamilies
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com As gentrification continues in the District, a new affordable housing complex is offering units to a very specific kind of family- grandfamilies- households headed by grandparents rearing grandchildren. Located in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Northwest, D.C., Plaza West is the first of its kind in the area as […]
Posted inNEWS, Prince George's County News
Suspect in Murder of Maryland Teen Facing Charges
By Micha Greeen, AFRO Washington D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Authorities said they arrested and charged one suspect in the August murder of 16-year-old Kevin Wilson Jr. of Silver Spring, who was shot in the Takoma Park area of Prince George’s County, before later dying at a hospital. Kevin Wilson(pictured), a talented athlete, was killed in Takoma Park. A […]
Posted inAfro Briefs, National News, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
April Ryan Calls Omarosa ‘Minister Liar’
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Former White House advisor and reality star Omarosa Manigault Newman and White House journalist April Ryan have been at odds for a while and on Thursday morning, the veteran reporter slammed the ex-Trump crony on Twitter by calling her a “liar.” In February 2017, Ryan said that Manigault Newman […]
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DCPS Remembers Local Lives Lost on 9/11
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com September 11, 2001- the day of the deadliest attack in U.S. history- left nearly 3,000 people dead and more than 6,000 others injured. 19 terrorists hijacked four planes resulting in the fall of the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, major damage to the Pentagon and […]