By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com If you don’t know the name Naja Elon Webb now, commit it to your memory. A recent graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Webb has boosted her resume in a major way the summer between high school and freshman year of college at Cooper Union University. From […]
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Unveiling Freedom
By Xavier Underwood When most think of the National Archives, the Bill of Rights, Constitution of the United States, or the Declaration of Independence, known collectively as the “Charters of Freedom” comes to mind. I was excited to visit the National Archives on June 19 for another reason. Albeit, we never learned in school the […]
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Pepco Powers Ward 6
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com As the nation celebrated Juneteenth and the official ending to American chattel slavery, Pepco commemorated the historic date with the official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the newly restored James C. Dent House in Southwest, D.C. Dent was a former slave, turned farmer and pastor of Moriah Baptist Church in S.W, […]
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Refugee Chefs Showcase Skills
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com The flavors of the world were shared by refugee chefs during the first Tables Without Borders multi restaurant event in the District of Columbia. Five separate establishments gave chefs who are seeking asylum a chance to prepare their specialty dishes for guests between June 17 – 22. […]
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Officer Tased Innocent Black Man
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In another case of, “racist, White cops,” on June 22 a Black man on D.C.’s metro was tased essentially because he looked like he was about to fight. Yes, you read that right. Not because he put his hands on an officer or committed a crime; but because he, […]
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D.C. Council Members Participate in Rally for ‘Justice for Janitors’ Day
By WI Web Staff WASHINGTON INFORMER — Honoring the 29th anniversary of “Justice for Janitors Day,” D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Councilmember Elissa Silverman readied to join hundreds of 32BJ SEIU janitors to march downtown during Wednesday afternoon rush hour to protest a non-union cleaning contractor under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
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Made in DC Pop-Up Comes to Reagan Airport
By WI Web Staff WASHINGTON INFORMER — Kristi Whitfield, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development and Rahama Wright, the founder and CEO of Shea Yeleen Health and Beauty, celebrated the grand opening of the Made in DC retail pop-up at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on June 13. The Made […]
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New Exhibit Traces 4 Centuries of Black History in Virginia
By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The artifacts in a new exhibit tracing four centuries of Black history in Virginia range from the painful to the poignant: leg shackles and chains used during slavery, a letter from a fugitive slave describing the joys of his newfound freedom and a stool from a […]
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Documentary Emphasizes Power of Forgiveness
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com June 17, 2015, a Bible study at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church turned into a bloody crime scene. June 17, 2015, nine innocent people in their safe place of worship were brutally killed simply because of the color of their skin. On June 17, 2019, four years […]
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Students Lobby City Hall and Win
By Carl Thomas, Special to the AFRO The Headline: 7-6. That was the vote total when the D.C. Council met to decide the future location of Benjamin Banneker Academic High School. The Council chambers were filled with hundreds of students from the city’s highest performing high school, organized under a sole purpose — to lobby the […]
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Annual Women’s E3 Summit at NMAAHC
By Nyame-Kye Kondo, Special to the AFRO The annual, “Women’s E3 Summit,” convened at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. on June 13. With the three E’s standing for, “empowerment, entrepreneurship and engagement,” the event features and caters to a broad range of Black womanhood. Bringing together the likes of […]
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S.E. Shooting Kills 1 Man, Injures 1 Woman
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Seventy-six people have been killed in the District of Columbia in 2019, according to D.C. Witness. This time last year there had been 72 homicides. Last week, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser exhorted residents to stop the violence and encouraged federal lawmakers to consider legislation for gun control. “We need […]