Category: Prince George’s County News

On a cold Sunday night the fellowship hall of the University Park Church of Christ, located in Hyattsville, Md., was filled with men, women and children watching TV and having supper with a Christmas tree in the background. University Park Church serves a meal and fellowship to the homeless in Prince George’s County. (Photo by […]

The University of Maryland on Nov. 27 announced revisions to its procedures for reporting of hate-bias incidents on campus. “A clear and transparent protocol for hate-bias incidents on our campus is essential to ensuring a sense of safety for our students, faculty and staff,” Roger L. Worthington, the university’s chief diversity officer, said in a […]

Erek Barron wants residents of Maryland’s 24th district to re-elect him so he can finish the work he started. “I have unfinished business that I need to attend to,” Barron told the AFRO. “I have much more left to do.” District 24 representative Erek Barron is running for re-election in the Maryland House of Delegates. (Courtesy […]

NAACP officials in Prince George’s County are slated to meet with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) after a probe into the county’s Public School system revealed at least 59 students, in the past two years, graduated from local high schools after educators changed their grades. The 211-page report, which was released Nov. 3, also showed […]

Prince George’s County native Hope Wiseman, a 25-year-old businesswoman and dancer, is breaking boundaries as the youngest Black woman to own a cannabis dispensary in the United States. Her dispensary, Mary and Main, is slated to open in the early part of 2018 in Capitol Heights, Md. Hope Wiseman, who is just 25, owns a […]

A former Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) professor is suing the institution for what he calls a culture of favoritism and hostility. Frank Phillips taught public relations at the school from 1997-2016, when he retired to avoid being dismissed for performance that did “not meet college standards and is, in fact, unsatisfactory.” Frank J. Phillips, […]

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland-–He says he’s faced some terrible times but Prince George’s County resident Jackie Wimbush says you need to keep on smiling…and dancing. And Wimbush does just that as he offers up bottles of water to passing motorists along Adelphi Road in College Park.

The Pastor and members of Riverdale Baptist Church, 1177 Largo Road, are scheduled to present the “Living Christmas Tree,” a production where 80 singers sing from a choir stands in a 30 foot Christmas tree with plenty of tree fur and dancing lights. In addition to singers and actors the production includes an orchestra performance […]

B.J. Paige is running for the District 7 council seat because, he said, he wants to see District 7 become a more prosperous and inclusive area. “I am running because you just can’t talk about making your community better, you have to show action,” Paige told the AFRO. B.J. Paige, founder of a non-profit Boys […]

Suitland, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C., has been designated as the new hot spot for development in Prince George’s County, according to Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker III. Baker helped break ground on Town Square at the Suitland Federal Center on Nov. 16 in a groundbreaking attended by a large number of elected […]

After years of planning and budgetary debates, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker and a host of other officials are scheduled to break ground on new regional medical center in Largo, Md. on Nov. 30. The new 220 bed hospital is a partnership between Dimensions Health Care and the University of Maryland Medical System. The […]

The National Baptist Convention (NBC), an affiliation of Baptist churches throughout the United States, has selected the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. as the site for its 2020 Convention, according to the Rev. Charles W. McNeill, Jr., president of the National Capital Baptist Convention, a local chapter of the NBC. McNeill, who is the […]