By The Associated Press The Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted Tuesday to punish the city of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments by taking $250,000 away from the city that would […]
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Starbucks to Close Stores for an Afternoon for Bias Training
By The Associated Press Starbucks, moving swiftly to confront a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two Black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia, plans to close […]
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Rosa Parks House to be Shown, After Trans-Atlantic Odyssey
By MICHELLE R. SMITH and DAVID RISING, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The small, tired house with peeling white paint once served as a refuge for Rosa Parks in Detroit. […]
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Irène P. Mathieu’s Poetic Approach to Global Health
By Tilesha Brown, Special to the AFRO Irène P. Mathieu was a featured poet at the recent Virginia Festival of the Book. At the New Dominion Book Shop, in downtown Charlottesville, […]
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No, White Ladies of Virginia Tech, You Can Not Use the N-Word
The women of Virginia Tech’s lacrosse team were apparently feeling themselves after beating Elon on March 24. Someone on the team posted a video of group of apparently all White […]
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To Help DC’s Restaurant Workers, Save Our Tips
I can still hear my Jamaican mother’s voice, questioning why I, who’d graduated with a degree in social work, was instead making ends meet as a server at Bistro Bis. […]
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Smithsonian Scholar Takes D.C. Kids Inside the Fascinating World of Cell Phones
Joshua Bell, a cultural anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution, recently talked to students at a District of Columbia charter school about an everyday gadget that most people in the world […]
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Applebee’s Caught Serving Side of Racism?
The two Black women just wanted a meal. Instead they got falsely accused of dining and dashing at an Applebee’s in Independence, Mo. Alexis Brison was falsely accused of dining […]
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Three Black-Owned Eateries Featured in Metro Washington Restaurant Week
Three Black-owned restaurants — Kith/Kin, Etete and The Park At Fourteenth — are serving up plenty of treats for the winter edition of Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week, which ends Jan. […]
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Local Chef Adds Special Ingredient to D.C.’s Favorite Sauce
When it comes to local cuisine, many Washingtonians would argue that there’s nothing more D.C. than the sweet, tangy flavor of mumbo sauce. Capice Faulcon, head chef at Black Squirrel […]
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Step into Who You Are – Embrace and Love Your Natural Hair
Natural hair has never been so popular and so empowering. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the 1960’s slogan “Black is Beautiful” and the electrified and somewhat defiant political jolt […]
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Baltimore Business Owners Making Plans for Black Restaurant Week
Baltimore Restaurant Week has grown into a major city-wide attraction, but minority-owned restaurants are not often visible participants in the event. A group of several African-American restaurateurs and Radio One […]