Category: Washington D.C. News

By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com One of the District of Columbia’s middle schools is a powerful example of the demographic changes taking place in much of the city. Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland Middle School, with grades 6-8, is located in the gentrifying Petworth neighborhood on the southern end of Ward 4. The school had […]

By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO There’s no good reason why Howard University, an elite, academic powerhouse and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful entity representing more than 3 million businesses, sitting just miles away from the Howard, haven’t been working together. That relative isolation changed July 30 after the two institutions […]

By Charise Wallace, Special to the AFRO Forget hitting the town in Atlanta, Los Angeles, or New York where music, entertainment, film and more are widely known as the places to find creatives. Now, Washington, D.C.’s “202Creates” offers an opportunity for unique talent to dominate the industry. With a passion for the arts, D.C. Mayor Muriel […]

By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com The Ward 7 Business Partnership, an organization of businesses, held a forum Aug. 11 at the Riverside Center in Northeast. The forum, “1968-2018: Small Businesses of Historic Deanwood-A Look Back,” was designed to remember the businesses that operated before and after the riots that occurred after the April 4, 1968 […]

By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com For the 2018-2019 school year, Frank W. Ballou Senior High School and Anacostia High School, in the Ward 8 Southeastern quadrant of the District of Columbia, have new principals. William Haith is the new principal at Anacostia and Willie Jackson will take the helm at Ballou. “I want to […]

By Tyra Wilkes, Special to the AFRO Laundry Love is an organization, which started in order to cover the laundry costs of low-income and vagrant individuals and families across the nation. Since originating in Ventura, California 14 years ago, over 750,000 people have benefited from the initiative. The idea spiraled from a simple conversation with a […]

By Hamil R. Harris, Special to the AFRO The majority of the people who use Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) as a primary means of transportation usually don’t have police escorts and go through a separate gate to enter into the train station, yet the White supremacists part of the the Unite the Right 2 protest […]