Category: Washington D.C. News

Black Americans For A Better Future (BAFBF) is scheduled to hold its first Virginia Republican Gubernatorial Forum entitled “A Conversation With the Minority Community of Virginia”. The event is scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. on April 15 at the Lee Center’s Kauffman Auditorium, 1108 Jefferson Street. The moderators for this forum include Freddie Allen, […]

(Updated 4/10/2017)  Faculty leaders at Howard University passed a vote of no confidence in the president and provost of the Washington, D.C.-based HBCU. But the vote apparently came as a surprise to some members of the Faculty Senate, the Washington Post has reported. Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick. (Screengrab YouTube) Taft Broome, chairman […]

For Kelvin Roston Jr. the journey to Baltimore’s Center Stage started at the church. “I’m a church kid. I wanted to play the drums so I asked if I could take music lessons. He was like, ‘You sure can!’ The first day I walked into the room, there was a piano,” says Roston. Kelvin Roston […]

Descendents of the 272 enslaved Africans sold in 1838 by Jesuit priests associated with Georgetown University will be among the attendees at a religious ceremony and building rededication that recognizes the institution’s ties to slavery. The “Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope” will take place at 10 a.m. April 18 in the Washington, D.C. campus’ […]

Academic excellence should be an expectation for all students regardless of race, economic background and other factors. While I am delighted that District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and other city officials are laser focused on an education plan for the city, the looming specter of the “achievement gap” hangs over the school system. And, […]

Kamala D. Harris, the second Black woman ever elected to the United States Senate, will return to Howard University – her alma mater – May 13 to deliver the keynote address at the school’s 149th commencement convocation, according to a statement from the school.   Harris, the Democratic junior senator from California, graduated from Howard […]

More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the combination of massive resistance and growing residential segregation has rolled back the decision’s achievements. But did integration work? And as the nation marches back into segregated housing, education, and communities, the return of Jim Crow laws – or separate, but equal, accommodations […]

For all of his accomplishments — and there are many — the late Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio didn’t go on and on with his children about the important things he was doing up on Capitol Hill. “He didn’t come home and talk a lot about it,” his son, Chuck Stokes, told the AFRO. […]

Residents of Ward 8 recently assembled to hear D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser deliver her State of the District Address and they were mildly impressed with what they heard but had concerns. In D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s third State of the District Address she outlined the city’s plans to decrease unemployment, increase affordable housing and advocated […]

Over 30 bishops of the United Methodist Church traveled from across the country to praise a deceased colleague who was a trailblazer and didn’t hesitate to speak out against and acted to change injustices. Bishop Felton May was the first Black bishop of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. (Courtesy photo) On Feb. […]

Child advocate Stacey Patton understands clearly the indignities of child abuse and the long-lasting impact violence has on the mental and emotional development of children – particularly Black children. Stacey Patton read from her new book ‘Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America’ recently in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Shantella Sherman) But […]

Members of the Black Women’s Roundtable recently convened its annual meeting to lobby against the passing of the Trump budget and the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, with the support of Black female members of the U.S. Congress. On March 30, about 50 participants in the Black Women’s Roundtable conference gathered […]