Category: Washington D.C. News

Award-winning author Jonetta Rose Barras (Photo/bancroftpress.com) Award-winning author Jonetta Rose Barras joins with Esther Productions, Inc., a DC-based nonprofit organization, and nationally recognized artists and therapists Brittany Nicole Adams, Joy Jones and Tracie Robinson to present THE GIFT: An Interactive Arts Healing and Reconciliation Experience being held October 20, 2015 from 5:30 PM through 8:00 PM at the Frank […]

The ROCKS, an organization partnered with the Department of the Army, will host their first annual golf tournament. The event is scheduled to take place on Oct. 23 at The Westfields Golf Club, 13940 Balmoral Greens Ave., at 8:30 a.m. All proceeds from the tournament will go towards the organization to help continue their mission to strengthen […]

The Lambda Kappa Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha will hold their annual Kozy Kerchief & Kozy Kaps program at the Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park St. NE, on Oct. 24 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The event will take place on National Make A Difference Day and consist of AKA  members and volunteers […]

Musiq Soulchild Taalib Johnson, otherwise known as contemporary singer Musiq Soulchild, is scheduled to perform at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St NW, from Oct. 24-25. Introduced to the world in 2000, Musiq, a Philadelphia native, is a soul artist whose unique style blends R&B, Soul, Funk, Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Hip Hop.  He has […]

Bell Biv DeVoe, an R&B music group that branched off from New Edition, will be performing at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St NW, on Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Group members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ron DeVoe, will perform hits, including “Poison,” “Do Me,” and “When Will I See You Smile Again?” among […]

(Screengrab from cellphone footage of incident) More than fifty protesters trekked the Eastern Market / Navy Annex corridor on Oct. 13 to demand an internal investigation of police conduct following the aggressive detainment of a University of the District of Columbia (UDC) student a day earlier. In cellphone footage recorded reportedly by Michael Brown, one […]

With two months left in 2015, as of Oct. 9 the District of Columbia has 120 homicides. That figure is 44.6 percent higher than 2014. Benjamin Crump, President of the National Bar Association. Across the United States, families, cities, and communities are grappling with a culture of violence manifested by tens of thousands killed each year […]

Jessica Cunningham accepts 2015 Milken Educators Award. (Photo by courtesy of Milken Family Foundation.) America’s true unsung heroes work daily to educate youth who shape the future. This is the belief of Lowell Milken, who established the Milken Educator Awards program in 1987 to recognize the outstanding work of early-to-mid career education professionals across the […]

The D.C.-area metro is experiencing a lower number of Black riders because of safety concerns. (Photo credit WMATA) Recent data from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) shows that many U.S. cities have experienced record-high public transportation ridership. However, the Washington Metro Area Transit Authority’s Metrobus and Metrorail services have seen a combined ridership decline […]

Channing D. Phillips is set to be the District’s new U.S. Attorney. (U.S. Department of Justice) On Oct. 8, President Obama selected Channing D. Phillips, a former acting U.S. Attorney for the District and the senior counsel to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as the city’s next top prosecutor. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) […]

Seshat Walker, owner of The General Store Seshat Walker uses tech savvy creativity to help budding entrepreneurs, “especially people who look like me and people who are underserved,” she told the AFRO, Sept. 14. In 2005, Walker founded The General Store, a D.C.-based agency that works with independent artists, organizations, and small businesses to come […]

Asbury’s United Methodist Church, 926 11th Street, NW, will hold a two day annual Women’s Day Celebration on Oct. 17-Oct. 18, starting  at 8:30 a.m. The celebration will include an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, themed: Tongues of Women for Peace and Racial Justice. The cost for breakfast is $15. On Oct. 18 the celebration will include a […]