By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), a science philanthropy that advances biomedical research and science education, on Thursday committed $1.5 billion to launch the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program for early career scientists who are dedicated to creating equitable and inclusive lab environments. Applications […]
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Black-owned Célébrez en Rosé festival returns to D.C. and travels to Chicago for the first time
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, Report for America Corps Member, msayles@afro.com It’s time to break out your finest pink and white attire because the premier Black-owned festival for wines, champagne and lifestyle, Célébrez en Rosé, is returning to Washington, D.C. and Chicago this June. This year marks the festival’s third anniversary in Washington, D.C., […]
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AFRO Archives: Remarks by the president at Howard University commencement ceremony
By Special to the AFRO (May 7, 2016) 11:47 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you! Hello, Howard! (Applause.) H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: H-U! AUDIENCE: You know! THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) Thank you so much, everybody. Please, please, have a seat. Oh, I feel important now. Got a degree from Howard. Cicely Tyson said something nice about me. (Laughter.) AUDIENCE […]
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It’s graduation time at area HBCUs – face to face at last
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor Graduation at the Washington-Baltimore area’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been a standing ovation experience this Spring in the area. All area HBCUs have returned to in-person events this year after many had postponed graduation ceremonies altogether in the early days of Spring 2020. Most campuses held […]
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Not too late to find an HBCU summer camp for your kids
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. Editor Summer is the time to introduce the young person in your life to a (Historically Black College and University) HBCU campus. Let’s say you attended an HBCU, and want to instill that priceless HBCU love in your offspring. On the other hand, perhaps, you’ve never stepped foot on one […]
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
By Frances Murphy (Toni) Draper, AFRO Publisher In 1933, Dr. Carter Goodwin Woodson wrote his seminal, albeit controversial, book The Mis-Education of the Negro. A weekly columnist for the AFRO and other Black publications, Dr. Woodson argued that the education systems of his day were designed to oppress rather than uplift Black children teaching them […]
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Let’s Talk about Money: Starting a business
Thinking about starting a business? Here are 5 things to consider More people are choosing to become entrepreneurs and chart a path of their own in the pandemic. In fact, one million more new business applications were filed in 2021 than in 2020 -the highest total on record- according to the U.S Census Bureau. If […]
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Reaction to Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
By DaQuan Lawrence On Feb. 24, 2022, when Russian forces invaded Ukraine, they reignited a previously established history of political conflict and began Europe’s foremost war in decades. Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the United Nations for financial and military support on April 5. Zelensky also sent a message via a prerecorded video that […]
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Full circle moments for Howard University’s fine arts community at 2022 graduation
By Deborah Bailey, AFRO D.C. News Editor Generations of Howard’s fine arts community demonstrated how the torch is passed at the world-renowned HBCU, both at the podium and in the audience at Howard University’s 154th commencement celebrated on May 7. Howard University Alumna, Academy Award-winning actor, producer and director, Taraji P. Henson came home to […]
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Mosaic’s Marys Seacole Celebrates Black Caregivers
Broadway star and famed singer of the “Reading Rainbow” television show theme song, Tina Fabrique appears alongside local favorite Kim Bey under the direction of beloved local director Eric Ruffin in Mosaic Theater’s production of Marys Seacole by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, on stage now through May 29th. Hailed as “revelatory” by The […]
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UDC: An international destination in the nation’s capital
By H. R. Harris, Special to the AFRO The University of the District of Columbia has evolved into an international institution that attracts students, and the school is on sound financial footing, according to an internal report. Every weekend the sidewalk in the 4200 block of Connecticut Ave. is lined with vendors from various countries. […]
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AFRO EXCLUSIVE: Op-ed: D.C.-Area Pastors on Rise of Antisemitism
By Bernie Dorsey and Durant K. Harvin III History is riddled with examples of people and nations that allow danger to gather on their doorsteps in the belief that evil would not come for them. But evil comes and by then it may be too late. Today, there is a gathering storm in America, and […]
