By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO A two-week festival at the Kennedy Center highlighting Cuba’s vibrant cultural arts scene in music, dance, visual arts, cinema, theater, fashion and other […]
Category: Travel
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D.C. Brings the Funk
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO It’s official: Washington, D.C. keeps it funky. The 5th Annual Funk Parade will take place on May 12 despite concerns that the event would […]
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Jack Whitten, Artist as Sojourner and Refugee, on Display at BMA
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO Jack Whitten, the distinguished contemporary Black artist, premieres at the the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) this weekend. “Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017” […]
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Tennessee Lawmakers Punish Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues
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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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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New Website offers Services to Revolutionize Black Lodging Experience
Black travelers can now make lodging arrangements without fearing racial discrimination thanks to a new website called Noirbnb. (Courtesy Image and Logo) The famous house and rental sharing site, Airbnb, […]
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Fate of Annual HBCU Cuba Programs Unclear
With President Donald Trump enacting a new Cuba policy that aims to, among other things, curb tourism to the communist island, educators running journalism programs at Howard University and Morgan […]
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D.C. Students Travel to the Black Side of Panama
Seventeen students at National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School in Southeast Washington D.C. traveled and studied in Panama as a part of their curriculum, recently. National Collegiate Prep students […]
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Baltimore Students to Study African Diaspora in Cuba
Sharayna Christmas, Moriah Ray and Jasmine Hall work with Baltimore youth at Muse 360. (Courtesy photo) While youth in Baltimore are working summer-jobs or fending for themselves during the summer […]