By Lenore T. Adkins,Special to the AFRO Can’t get enough of “Black Panther” and Marvel’s other exciting super heroes? Disney Publishing Worldwide and Little Free Library have joined forces to launch a Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War-themed library at Upshur Recreation Center, 4300 Arkansas Avenue NW. Jesse J. Holland, author of Marvel’s book for the hit […]
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Afro Cubans Abound at Kennedy Center Festival
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 disciplines includes Cuban artists of African descent. “Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World” will showcase more than 400 Cuban and Cuban-American artists […]
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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 be cancelled. Instead of cancellation, this year’s parade has grown with a full day of events leading to a fuller night of musical showcases spanning […]
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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” features 40 works of an artist whose career spanned five decades. Part exhibition, part biography, the BMA display presents a uniquely physical encounter with the […]
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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 have been used for a bicentennial celebration next year. The retaliation came in the form of passage of a last-minute amendment attached to the House […]
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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 use and how it has shaped lives. On Feb. 28, Bell talked to 19 students in the library of Thurgood Marshall Academy in Southeast, D.C. […]
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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, has faced controversy over claims by patrons of color who attempted to rent accommodations but say they faced discrimination. Noirbnb was created in response to […]
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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 State University need more time to digest how the changes could affect their annual school trips to Cuba. For now, faculty at both schools are […]
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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 get the opportunity to explore and learn about the Black community in Panama. (Courtesy Photo-National Prep) Shannon Cox, who teaches Spanish, helped arrange the May […]
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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 break, a group of students from Frederick Douglass High School will get an opportunity to study abroad in Cuba. The opportunity has been afforded to […]