By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO After spending 37 years anchoring and reporting at WUSA Channel 9, Andrea Roane, a familiar face to Washingtonians for decades, has called it a career. Roane, 68, retired July 27 and told the AFRO she’ll spend the next phase of her life championing causes that are close to […]
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Ben’s Chili Bowl Celebrates 60 Years
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO It’s Ben’s Chili Bowl’s 60th birthday party and everyone’s invited. The historic eatery’s original location at 1213 U Street NW is celebrating six decades of life on August 22nd while honoring Virginia Ali, the restaurant’s surviving cofounder. Ben’s Chili Bowl (Twitter Photo) The block party runs from […]
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Little Leaguers Make Big History
The Mamie Johnson Little League Majors team is the first all Black D.C. Little League team to win the championship. The team, named after legendary Negro League pitcher Mamie “Peanut Johnson, made history on July 24 and are headed to Bristol, Connecticut in August to compete in the championship. The Mamie Johnson Little League Majors team in […]
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Lifelong DC Resident: Police Harassment ‘Definitely the Norm’
By Aya Elamroussi, Special to the AFRO American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) -DC filed a lawsuit last week against a D.C. police officer for inappropriately touching a Black man during a stop-and-frisk in Southwest, D.C. a violation of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. “For a number of months, […]
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Former DCPS Teacher on Layoffs: ‘It’s Criminal’
By Aya Elamroussi, Special to the AFRO When D.C. Public Schools fired third-grade teacher Jeff Canady in 2009, he couldn’t leave the District and look for a job elsewhere. Both his parents were sick and needed his help. He slept in a car for two years. “My living situation has been very difficult. Extremely difficult,” Canady […]
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‘Chocolate City’ Is Older than You Think
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com George Derek Musgrove, an associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, was the guest speaker at the Ward 8 Democrats meeting on July 22 at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center in Southeast. Musgrove, one of the Washington area’s leading historians, is the co-author of the book, […]
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CitySwing Makes Golf Accessible
By Brigette White, Special to the AFRO, bwhite@afro.com Out of a love for golf and her own personal desire to play daily, Wellesley, Massachusetts native Tari Cash created CitySwing, a convenient place in Washington, D.C. to practice. “I love living in this city and the energy that I receive from downtown Washington, D.C. One Friday afternoon […]
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Former Slave Holding Mansion Now Home to Black Artists
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO About 20 miles south of Washington, D.C. lies an old plantation which once housed slaves that has been transformed into a home for some of the most innovative Black makers and artists the DMV has to offer. Makers In The Mansion: Stories of A Transformed African American Community at […]
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Mandela Fellows Learn About Leadership at Howard University
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com Four years ago, President Obama created the Mandela Washington Fellowship. The program brings young African leaders to the United States to learn about leadership and other professional endeavors. One of the universities selected to participate in the program was Howard University. This summer, Howard continued its involvement by hosting a […]
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Women Entrepreneurs Work to Empower One Another
By Brigette White, Special to the AFRO, bwhite@afro.com The Woman Behind the Business (WBB) hosted their networking takeover at Spa Logic on July 19, in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C.. The WBB is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support and success of women in business across America and the world. Women Behind […]
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Is America Ready for Another Black President?
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Former Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert that he’s seriously considering running for president in 2020- an announcement that received major cheers from the crowd. Despite the support from Colbert’s audience, in a post-Obama, “Make America Great Again” era, which many argue has […]
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Bookstore Solid State Books Opens in Historic H Street
By Hamzat Sani, Special to the AFRO When Jake Cumsky-Whitlock decided to open Solid State Books he knew he wanted a store that could serve as a third space that would intellectually feed the District’s book ravenous crowd but he also knew that he wanted it to be in a community that was diverse enough […]