By Brianna McAdoo, Special to the AFRO Red Bull is taking street dance to another level with their Dance Your Style competition debuting in the Nation’s capital on July 20. With no limitation to the type of dances that can be performed or the music that can be played, this competition is all about taking the […]
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Congrats Lonnie Bunch
With major local Black figures and influencers present, Council member Anita Bonds (D-At-Large) commemorated the historic appointment of Lonnie Bunch III as the first African American Secretary of the Smithsonian on July 9. Congrats Lonnie Bunch (Courtesy Photo)
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Howard University Hospital Announces WIC Center
By Tyra Wilkes, Special to the AFRO Howard University Hospital announced the opening of their Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Family Center at the Joint Base Anacostia –Bolling (JBAB), located at 53 MacDill Boulevard (Building 53) S.W., Washington, D.C. The center will provide healthcare to low-income military families with infants and children, access to healthy foods, […]
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Butterfly Works, the Future of SAT Prep
By Nyame-kye Kondo, Special to the AFRO For the last 13 years, D.C. based organization, Butterfly Works has provided high school students in the D.M.V area with quality classes to get them prepared for one of the most important standardized test’s in America, The SATs. Founded by native Washingtonian, Shuyinthia Hembry, Butterfly Works is consistently contracted […]
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D.C. Native Brings Sweets to Chocolate City
By Justin Johnson, AFRO Staff Writer Georgia Avenue just got a lot sweeter. D.C. native Karin Sellers made her dreams a reality by bringing the Georgia Avenue corridor its first Black woman owned ice cream shop, Here’s The Scoop. Karin Sellers was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and exposed to entrepreneurship at a young age. […]
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Howard Basketball Heads To Spain For Tour
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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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 […]
