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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Posted inLIFE & STYLE, National News, NEWS, Travel, Washington D.C. News
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 […]
Posted inArts & Culture, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS, TV and Film, Washington D.C. News
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 […]
Posted inMayor Muriel Bowser, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
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 […]
Posted inD.C. Community, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
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 […]
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D.C. Public Housing Gets Funding
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Public housing in the District got a boost from the City Council who passed it’s $15.5 billion budget June 18 after the Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey S. DeWitt initially said he would not certify its budget since it was initially ruled funds had been improperly diverted from Events […]
Posted inBaltimore News, COMMUNITY, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
AFRO Community Calendar
SEFEL Pyramid Model Leadership Training of Trainers. June 20-21, 2019. The Maryland SEFEL Pyramid Model Leadership Team, with MSDE sponsorship, is seeking applications from individuals who meet the criteria outlined below and are interested in becoming certified trainers in (either or both) of the Infant & Toddler and Preschool Classroom modules. Participants in this training […]
Posted inD.C. Community, District of Columbia Government, Mayor Muriel Bowser, NEWS, Washington D.C. News
D.C. Celebrates Juneteenth
By Nyame-kye Kondo, Special to the AFRO In age of wokeness, annual celebrations of Juneteenth is reawakening as the fourth of July festive occasion for Black people on a national scale. Originating in Texas, the Juneteenth celebration is meant to commemorate the day the final enslaved Africans were freed from slavery in the South, nearly two […]
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NAACP D.C. School Supply Drive
Support the NAACP D.C. School Supply Drive! (Going on Until August!) All Donations Will Go Toward the Washington School For Girls Donate Now! www.naacpdc.org
Posted inD.C. Government, District of Columbia Government, Mayor Muriel Bowser, NEWS, POLITICS, Washington D.C. News
Mayor Calls On Congress, Community
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com This time last year 66 people had been killed in the District of Columbia, D.C. Witness reported. In 2019 there have been 71 homicides in the nation’s capital, and according to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, 48 of them have been due to guns. “When we look at the data […]
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D.C. AG Cracks Down
By Mark F. Gray, Special to the AFRO, mgray@afro.com Maryland residents who have been accused of manipulating the District of Columbia’s education system by illegally registering their children in D.C. Public Schools are continuing to face the wrath of Attorney General Karl Racine. The Attorney General’s office filed suit last week alleging that a half dozen Maryland […]
