By Rev. Dorothy S. Boulware, Special to the AFRO There’s no end to the frustration people feel in the light of constant bullying and violence children experience in school as well as in communities. One 10-year-old has a plan to put a stop to it and she’s asking for everyone’s help. For almost two years, Winter […]
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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
By John Schmid, Special to the AFRO “We talk about people who owned land, but we often ignored those who worked the land,” Monica M. White, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison told her audience, Saturday. White was at Red Emma’s bookstore to promote her scholarship “Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the […]
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Efua’s Baby, a Mommy Run Business with a Conscious
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Nandi Tonge-Gabremedhin, owner of Efua’s Baby, is proof that a venture can be socially conscious, have a purpose and be a profitable business. Efua’s Baby offers handmade candles, body butters and soaps made with 100 percent natural ingredients like soy and coconut oil. But it’s the 41-year-old entrepreneur’s story […]
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Papa John’s Scores Shaq to Help Revive its Image
By Joseph Pisani and Gary Gerard Hamilton, The Associated Press Papa John’s is getting “Shaq-ified.” The pizza chain said March 22 that basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal will be its new pitchman, appearing in TV commercials and promoting Papa John’s in other ways. The company hopes O’Neal can repair its image and revive its sales […]
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Capital City Mambo Sauce Partners with Papa Johns to Add D.C. Flare
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Despite Mayor Muriel Bowser’s controversial denunciation of mambo sauce as a D.C. staple last November, most Washingtonians laud the flavor as a true District flavor that adds pizzazz to dishes from the carry out to homemade delights. Now, having recently teamed up with local husband and wife entrepreneurs Charles […]
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Recap: Delta Day in Annapolis 2019
By Christel York, Special to the AFRO On March 6, over 250 members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. from across the state of Maryland gathered for their annual Delta Day in Annapolis. The theme, “Sounding the Alarm in Annapolis: Impacting Legislation in Maryland,” focused on advocacy, legislation and policy efforts that support the underserved. Members […]
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Most and Least Ethnically Diverse U.S. Cities Identified
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia With immigration reform remaining one of the most prominent political issues, suggesting that the U.S. demographic landscape may soon change, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Ethnically Diverse Cities. To identify the most ethnically diverse places in America, WalletHub compared more […]
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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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Delta Flight Attendant Now Guard’s First Black Female Pilot
By Wayne Crenshaw, The Associated Press /Telegraph of Macon 1st Lt. Andrea Lewis’ mom visited her at work Feb. 6, and had good reasons to be proud. Lewis started her aviation career as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines and now she is a co-pilot for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System at Robins […]
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Men’s Self-Care in Baltimore
By J. K. Schmid, AFRO Staff Randy Lewis can’t say for certain when the new trend of men’s self-care took off, but he’s loving being in front of it. “I always took care of myself, always groomed myself,” Lewis told the AFRO. “I saw that a lot of men weren’t. Did they think that men […]
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Documentary Shows An Old Profession In A New Way
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Last year D.C. made the news when the Economic Policy Institute released a report that stated that unemployment for African Americans in the District was the highest in the nation. Finding gainful employment, let alone a career, in the District can be hard. And returning citizens from the prison […]
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Teens Cater Good Eats Via Singing Telegram
By Renee Foose, Special to the AFRO At a time when women-owned businesses are among the fastest growing start-ups in the country, a pair of talented, energetic, and entrepreneurial minded teenagers have found a niche within their community and have launched a catering business specializing in gourmet cupcakes and healthy eats. Erin Bowman, 17, and her […]
