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 exposed to local small businesses with the Engine Company 12 located at 1626 North Capitol St. NW., for more […]
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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 Baltimore! Also get in on Thursday happy hour deals. The night will include a featured performance by internationally known and […]
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Howard University Hospital Announces WIC Center
By Tyra Wilkes, Special to the AFRO Howard University Hospital announced the opening of their Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Family Center at the Joint Base Anacostia –Bolling (JBAB), located at 53 MacDill Boulevard (Building 53) S.W., Washington, D.C. The center will provide healthcare to low-income military families with infants and children, access to healthy foods, […]
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D.C. Native Brings Sweets to Chocolate City
By Justin Johnson, AFRO Staff Writer Georgia Avenue just got a lot sweeter. D.C. native Karin Sellers made her dreams a reality by bringing the Georgia Avenue corridor its first Black woman owned ice cream shop, Here’s The Scoop. Karin Sellers was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and exposed to entrepreneurship at a young age. […]
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D.C.-Area Activist Gives First-Hand Take on Dem Debates
By William J. Ford, Washington Informer Staff Writer Melanie Campbell flew to her native Florida to personally feel, hear and see the 20 Democratic presidential candidates debate on health care, race, foreign affairs and other topics Wednesday and Thursday. The president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in northwest D.C. said […]
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Marion S. Barry SYEP Turns 40
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO New York-based actress/writer/producer/curator/dancer Chelsea Harrison may have completed the beloved Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program more than a decade ago, but she credits it with teaching her how to research historic figures she portrays in her one-woman shows. The program placed Harrison, 28, at the National […]
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Teen Dead After Weekend Shooting
By Brianna McAdoo, Special to the AFRO Two shootings this past weekend in the District left three people injured, including two children, and one teenager dead. Two shootings this past weekend in the District left three people injured, including two children, and one teenager dead. A father and his two children were waiting at a bus […]
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Officer Tased Innocent Black Man
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In another case of, “racist, White cops,” on June 22 a Black man on D.C.’s metro was tased essentially because he looked like he was about to fight. Yes, you read that right. Not because he put his hands on an officer or committed a crime; but because he, […]
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D.C. Council Members Participate in Rally for ‘Justice for Janitors’ Day
By WI Web Staff WASHINGTON INFORMER — Honoring the 29th anniversary of “Justice for Janitors Day,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Councilmember Elissa Silverman readied to join hundreds of 32BJ SEIU janitors to march downtown during Wednesday afternoon rush hour to protest a non-union cleaning contractor under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
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Made in DC Pop-Up Comes to Reagan Airport
By WI Web Staff WASHINGTON INFORMER — Kristi Whitfield, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development and Rahama Wright, the founder and CEO of Shea Yeleen Health and Beauty, celebrated the grand opening of the Made in DC retail pop-up at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on June 13. The Made […]
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S.E. Shooting Kills 1 Man, Injures 1 Woman
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Seventy-six people have been killed in the District of Columbia in 2019, according to D.C. Witness. This time last year there had been 72 homicides. Last week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser exhorted residents to stop the violence and encouraged federal lawmakers to consider legislation for gun control. “We need […]
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D.C. Public Housing Gets Funding
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Public housing in the District got a boost from the City Council who passed it’s $15.5 billion budget June 18 after the Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt initially said he would not certify its budget since it was initially ruled funds had been improperly diverted from Events […]