By Ashleigh FieldsAFRO Assistant Editorafields@afro.com The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will display its first official Kwanzaa exhibit until Jan. 1, 2024. A kinara, mkeka […]
Category: D.C. Community
University of the District of Columbia joins Anacostia High School in uplifting STEM partnerships
By Zsana HoskinsSpecial to the AFRO The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and Anacostia High School co-hosted STEMs-Giving, a celebration of the new innovative programs launched at the […]
Ebony Payne enters Ward 7 Council race
By Gene LambeySpecial to the AFRO Ebony Payne is the current Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) for 7D05, she is a native Washingtonian and has lived in the Kingman Park neighborhood […]
Lisa Gore, D.C. Council Ward 4 candidate, shares plans to change the community
By Zsana HoskinsSpecial to the AFRO In the 2022 election, Lisa Gore ran at large for a council seat. But now her focus is on Ward 4, where her family […]
Southeast library to close for renovations
By Zsana Hoskins Special to the AFRO In one month D.C.’s Southeast Library, located at 403 7th street in Washington, D.C., will close for a $33 million renovation to modernize […]
Alignment embraced by D.C. C-Suite luncheon women
By Deborah BaileyAFRO Contributing Editor dbailey@afro.com The laughter and fellowship ebbing through a Washington, D.C. hotel ballroom on an afternoon in November conveyed the pleasure expressed by several hundred upscale Black […]
GoGo Symphony to host holiday show “T’was the Night”
By Helen BezunehSpecial to the AFRO hbezuneh@afro.com GoGo Symphony, a musical group that celebrates go-go music in the genre’s birthplace of D.C., is hosting “T’was the Night,” a classical jazz […]
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals gets it right on Maryland gun ownership
By Andrellos Mitchell There shall be no abridgment of the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Period! On Nov. 21 a federal appeals court struck down Maryland’s licensing requirements for […]
District Department of Transportation installs new traffic enforcement cameras
By Re’Jon JonesSpecial to the AFRO The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) has announced the upcoming installation of speed limit cameras across Washington D.C. This move is part of a […]
Washington Association of Black Journalists hosts 2023 gala at Howard University
By Ashleigh FieldsAFRO Assistant Editorafields@afro.com Veteran communication professionals imparted wisdom on reporters young and old at the Washington Association of Black Journalists (WABJ) Scholarship Gala on Dec. 2. A deserving […]
D.C. leaders introduce HBCU Public Service Program
By Gene LambeySpecial to the AFRO Mayor Muriel Bowser officially launched the HBCU Public Service Program on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia earlier this month […]
Local Board of Education Chair Eboni-Rose Thompson enters race for Ward 7 council seat
By Charlee Douglas, Special to the AFRO Eboni-Rose Thompson has announced her candidacy for the Ward 7 Council seat currently occupied by Vincent Gray (D) who has been in office […]