By Mark F. Gray, AFRO Staff Writer, mgray@afro.com When the fall semester begins and students at Howard University ask their men’s basketball team how they spent summer vacation, they will pull out a passport. The Bison will get a head start on the 2019-2020 season when they head to Europe for a Summer Tour in Spain this […]
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Posted inArts & Culture, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS, TV and Film, Washington D.C. News
Local Talent Brings Important Message
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Imagine hearing a conversation in a Target so good, so juicy, so enticing, that you decide it should become a play- then you make it so. That’s what happened to Vernon Williams III and the DC Black Broadway crew after Williams overheard a conversation in 2015. Four […]
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Storms and Flooding Impact the D.M.V.
By Mark Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Around 8:30 a.m. July 8 scores of people received the blaring alerts on cell phones throughout Prince George’s that there was a flash flood warning and that low lying areas were vulnerable. As rush hour reached its peak the heavens opened wreaking havoc throughout southern Maryland. When Mother […]
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D.C.-Area Activist Gives First-Hand Take on Dem Debates
By William J. Ford, Washington Informer Staff Writer Melanie Campbell flew to her native Florida to personally feel, hear and see the 20 Democratic presidential candidates debate on health care, race, foreign affairs and other topics Wednesday and Thursday. The president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in northwest D.C. said […]
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Howard Leads HBCU Awards
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Howard University is leading with 12 finalist nominations in the 2019 HBCU Awards. Presented by HBCU Digest, the HBCU Awards are the first and only national awards ceremony honoring individual and institutional achievements at history Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Known as “The Mecca,” or “Black Ivy” some of […]
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Marion S. Barry SYEP Turns 40
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO New York-based actress/writer/producer/curator/dancer Chelsea Harrison may have completed the beloved Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program more than a decade ago, but she credits it with teaching her how to research historic figures she portrays in her one-woman shows. The program placed Harrison, 28, at the National […]
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Air Pollution vs. People of Color
By Brianna McAdoo, Special to the AFRO As the 2020 race for Presidency of the United States unfolds, climate change is amongst one of the most pressing issues that the candidates are being asked to share their plan of action for. Americans across the United States are collectively acknowledging the climate crisis that has been unfolding […]
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Bill Introduced to Improve Maternal Healthcare
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Expectant mothers face challenges when seeking quality prenatal care in the District of Columbia. Economic and transportation barriers contribute to the District’s infant mortality rate which is amongst the worst in the nation. In 2018 there were an average of 36.1 deaths for every 100,000 live births […]
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Teen Dead After Weekend Shooting
By Brianna McAdoo, Special to the AFRO Two shootings this past weekend in the District left three people injured, including two children, and one teenager dead. Two shootings this past weekend in the District left three people injured, including two children, and one teenager dead. A father and his two children were waiting at a bus […]
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Don’t Say “She Cuts Good For A Girl”
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO When Lesley Bryant opened The Lady Clipper Barber Shop in 2017, she wanted it to serve people of all races, genders, sexual orientations and ages in part because she remembers what it’s like being bullied. Bryant, 38, was born in Trinidad and when she arrived in Washington, D.C. at […]