By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Angela Robinson auditioned for her role of Veronica Harrington on OWN Network’s “The Haves and The Have Nots” under devastating circumstances. “My best friend was visiting and her father in-law passed away,” she recalls. “So I had her and her husband and their children over and I got […]
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Black Love Day
By AFRO Staff Black Love Day, founded by Ayo Handy-Kendi, the Breath Sekou, is celebrating 26 years of creating healing, loving solutions for rebuilding relationships, in countless, Black and White communities, locally, nationally and internationally. The commemorative holiday, recognized on Feb. 13, offers a spiritual alternative to the commercialized Valentine’s Day. This year’s celebration, which […]
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At 94, The Legendary Cicely Tyson Remains An ‘Optimist’
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia At 94, the legendary actress and freedom fighter, Cicely Tyson, absolutely stuns on the cover of TIME. Clad in an elegant Michael Couture dress and stylish Taffin earrings by James de Givenchy with hair and makeup by Armond Hambrick, Tyson graces Time’s cover this month in celebrate […]
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Alvin Ailey Brings Nostalgia and Hope for Today
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In a time of division and racial tension in the United States, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brought unity and healing through art in their performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Northwest, Washington, D.C. From Feb. 5- 10 audiences packed into the Kennedy […]
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“Stay Fly” Comes to CulturalDC’s Mobile Art Gallery
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Local Artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards will premiere her latest work this Friday at CityCenterDC, as part of CulturalDC’s 10th installation in their Mobile Art Gallery space. “Stay Fly” is a combination of large and small scale collages, and personal designer items, and does a deep dive into the relationship between […]
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Community News and Events Feb 7- Feb 16
Feb 7 Community Development Day in Annapolis Join the Community Development Network of Maryland on February 7th, 10am-1:30pm, to tell our legislators to fund the Community Development Fund and pass CDN’s Legislative Agenda. The meetings will be held in rooms 170 and 180 Lowe House Office Building 6 Bladen Street, Annapolis, MD 21401. To register […]
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LIVING FOR THE WEEKEND
By Valerie Fraling, Special to the AFRO What the world needs now is love, sweet love it’s the only thing that there’s just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No, not just for some, but for everyone. Look, we don’t need another mountain; there are oceans and rivers enough […]
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Gates Hopes to Enlighten Americans About Reconstruction
By The Associated Press PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Historian Henry Louis Gates can trace the roots of his upcoming PBS documentary about the Reconstruction to his days in school. That’s when he heard about the end of slavery during the Civil War followed by virtually nothing about race relations until the civil rights movement in […]
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Black Earth Rising’s Tamara Tunie On The Importance of Philanthropy
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Tamara Tunie, perhaps most known for her roles as Medical Examiner Melinda Warner on crime procedural Law and Order SVU, actress, director, and producer, has worked her entire career to add the title of philanthropist to her resume. Presently gearing up for her role in an all female […]
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Uptown Art House Orchestrates Black History Month Programming
By Maxwell Young, Special to the AFRO Black History Month is a time for reflection–a recognition of the civic leaders, activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, pioneers and artists who are interwoven into the fabric of American history. Their respective movements, however groundbreaking, were and still are ostracized; threatened by bigoted opposition and systemic erasure. Black History Month is […]
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RAMBLING ROSE
By Rosa Pryor, Special to the AFRO Hello everyone, how are you enjoying this nice, crispy weather? Not me, I do not like the cold, but we are living in a four season region. So, what should we expect? It is winter for those of us who are complaining. Lexington Market, 400 W. Lexington Street […]
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Two Black Artists and Their Urgent Work on Exhibit at Baltimore Museum of Art
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Two artists have exhibits that take on issues of violence, Black culture and identity in their own distinct ways at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD. Mark Bradford most known for his large abstract pieces brings forth a body of work that infuses Greek […]