By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Just a couple years ago restaurant industry veterans Monique Rose and Chef Sammy Davis were on the verge of homelessness; now they have $12 million of revenue- last counted. Since starting they’re Milk & Honey concept in Beltsville, Md. in 2016, the two have blossomed into restauranteurs with several […]
Category: Washington D.C. News
Posted inD.C. Community, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
Residents Sue Over DC Senior Center Destroyed By Fire
By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Another lawsuit has been filed over a Washington, D.C., senior living apartment complex gutted by fire. (Stock Photo) WTOP-FM reports a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Arthur Capper Senior Public Housing’s 150 residents against Edgewood Management Corp. and others including the city’s housing authority. It asks for a […]
Posted inNational News, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
DC Sniper at Heart of Upcoming Supreme Court Case
By Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. But the justices’ eventual ruling probably will mean less for him than for a dozen other inmates who, like the […]
Posted inNational News, NEWS, POLITICS, U.S. Government, Washington D.C. News
Sojourner Truth Town Hall
By Nyame-kye Kondo, Special to the AFRO The Sojourner Truth Legacy Town Hall meeting took place Sept. 17, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest, D.C., as a part of the annual Congressional Black Caucus. Named after the abolitionist and freedom fighter, Sojourner Truth, the meeting is held to evoke the determination and persevering […]
Posted inD.C. Government, District of Columbia Government, NEWS, POLITICS, Washington D.C. News
The Squad Takes CBC
Angela Rye interviewed “The Squad,” which includes Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for the NAACP Live Town Hall at the Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2019. (Photo by Micha Green)
Posted inD.C. Community, D.C. Government, District of Columbia Government, NEWS, POLITICS, Washington D.C. News
D.C. Statehood Week: Standing Up for 51
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com “51! 51! 51,” Washingtonians shouted at the kickoff for D.C. Statehood Week on Sept. 16. Officials and residents alike are advocating for D.C. becoming the 51st state. “I was born without representation, but I will not die without representation,” District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser told the crowd passionately […]
Posted inD.C Sports, NEWS, Sports, Washington D.C. News
Friendship and Carroll Win At DC Kickoff Classic
By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, mgray@afro.com There was a pulse at RFK Stadium Sept. 14 as high school football took center stage at the venerable old site that holds so many memories to so many people. The second act of the DC Kickoff Classic wasn’t the most competitive doubleheader the District has ever seen, but […]
Posted inD.C Sports, NEWS, Sports, Washington D.C. News
ESPN’S Rose Prepares To Fight For High School Sports
By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, mgray@afro.com Former NBA star turned broadcaster Jalen Rose can’t imagine a life without high school sports. It was the platform that led him to the University of Michigan as the leader of the two time Final Four quintet known as the Fab Five. However, Rose a charter school founder in […]
Posted inNEWS, Washington D.C. News
Class Pays it Forward Over 50 Years Later
By AFRO Staff In 1888, the Rev. James Solomon Russell, a Black priest and educator, founded the St. Paul Normal and Industrial School in Lawrenceville, Va. (Brunswick County). The mission of the historically Black institution, which would come to be known as St. Paul’s College, was to educate talented Black students who might one day […]
Posted inBUSINESS, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
Washington Housing Conservancy Appoints a New Executive Director
By Briana Thomas, Special to the AFRO On Oct. 14, the Northwest, D.C. nonprofit, Washington Housing Conservancy (WHC), will install a new Executive Director. New Jersey-native Kimberly Driggins has spent two decades in D.C. working in the field of housing and community development. After working as an urban planner in Detroit for the past three years […]
Posted inBaltimore News, National News, NEWS, POLITICS, Washington D.C. News
THE RUN DOWN
By BE INSPIRED GLOBAL / AFRO.COM Host MICHA GREEN gives us the RUN DOWN on the happenings within the Congressional Black Caucus. #CBCFALC19 #AfroNews #BlackMediaAuthority #BeInspiredGlobal
Posted inD.C. Community, National News, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
Black Press of America Awards Courageous Leaders
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, @StacyBrownMedia With a lively and capacity crowd inside the Renaissance DC Downtown Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Sept. 12, National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and NNPA Chair Karen Carter Richards presented the annual National Leadership Awards. The 2019 honorees are […]
