By Lauren E Williams, Special to the AFRO Get your calendars ready, and your stomachs emptied because the DMV is set to host Black Restaurant Week November 4-11. Focused on highlighting culinary cuisines from Black chefs, as well as cultural events and informative workshops and sessions, this year‘s restaurant is like none other held in the […]
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Posted inMaryland Government, NEWS, POLITICS, Prince George's County News
Frank Talk as Campaign Enters Final Lap
By Hamil R. Harris, Special to the AFRO It was just supposed to be a pre-Labor Day pep rally to open “ coordinated Democratic campaign,” office in Largo. But Rep. Anthony Brown acknowledged that he didn’t run the best campaign against Governor Larry Hogan four years ago and 2018 candidate Ben Jealous said as the […]
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DC Farmer’s Market Will Match Money Spent by Food Assistance Recipients
By Tyra Wilkes, Special to the AFRO Now eating fresh and healthy foods is even easier for those receiving government assistance. FRESHFARM Markets, the Washington Metropolitan based grocer, will match every dollar spent by recipients of nutrition benefit programs. SNAP (EBT/Food Stamps), WIC, and Senior Farmers Market benefits are accepted at all FRESHFARM locations, allowing recipients […]
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Mystics Make Run to WNBA Semi Final
By MARK F. GRAY, Special to the AFRO Normally when a team returns home after a split of the first two games in a playoff series it feels good about the chance to advance. However, there are other tales from post season locker rooms of how a series doesn’t really begin until the home team loses. […]
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Police Chief Apologizes for Officer’s ‘Black Bad Guy’ Remark
The Associated Press A since-deleted Facebook Live video in which a police officer speaking to children refers to a “black bad guy” has prompted a Washington-area police chief to apologize. News outlets report that Prince George’s County Police Chief Hank Stawinski said in a YouTube video Monday that he’s apologizing for the officer’s “unfortunate” remark, made Friday. Prince George’s County Police (AP […]
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Faith in Action Seeks to Reach 1 Million People Before Election Day
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com A progressive faith organization plans to contact one million people before the Nov. 6 mid-term election to make sure they understand what is at stake for our country on that day. Faith in Action (formerly known as PICO) announced on Aug. 25 its comprehensive voter engagement campaign, “Faith […]
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Book Explores How to be Emotionally Free
By Ariel Medley, Special to the AFRO When we think of emancipation, we think of freedom. But what about the emancipation of our emotional barriers? When faced with life’s difficulties, how do we summon the courage and strength to move on? These questions, and others, are the focus in Dr. Dee Carroll’s first book, Emotional Emancipation: […]
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Seat Pleasant Citizens Help Police Fight Crime
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com In the early 2000s, Seat Pleasant was in the waning days of the crack epidemic that started in the 1980s but the city was still not a popular place to live. A group of citizens, led by resident Pamela Boone, decided that the Seat Pleasant Police Department needed help […]
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New Docu-Series Promotes DC’s Entrepreneurs
By Christina Sturdivant Sani, Special to the AFRO As Washington’s creative economy thrives, four D.C.-area natives want newcomers to know that the city was cool before #madeindc was a slogan branded on t-shirts and coffee mugs. For decades, people have been putting down roots in the District, and the fruits of their labor are bringing more […]
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McNair’s Father Backs University President
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO Less than two weeks before kickoff to a season that almost seems trivial, the Maryland football team pledged to keep the memory of teammate Jordan McNair alive while his father publicly pledged support for University President Dr. Wallace Loh. Terps players revealed the plans to honor their former […]
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Girls (Finally) Get Their Own School in Ward 8
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com Two years ago, the District of Columbia public schools opened up the Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Ward 7, an all-boys institution and recently, the girls got theirs. The Excel Academy, the public all-girls public school, started classes Aug. 20. The Excel Academy educates students from pre-Kindergarten […]
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DC Baptist Convention Is Ready for Its Close-Up
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com The District of Columbia’s branch of one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States is making an effort to engage residents and become more visible in the city. The DC Baptist Convention (DCBC) is an umbrella organization for more than 200 churches in the Washington, D.C. area, […]