Category: Washington D.C. News

Police and emergency responders stand outside a McDonald’s located inside Union Station in Washington, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, after a security guard shot a suspect who attacked a worker with a knife at the restaurant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a man who stabbed a woman and then was shot by a […]

Police and emergency responders stand outside a McDonald’s located inside Union Station in Washington, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, after a security guard shot a suspect who attacked a worker with a knife at the restaurant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — A security guard shot a man who stabbed a woman inside Union Station on […]

Performing artist, Lizz Wright (Courtesy Photo) A second opportunity to debut her latest record Freedom and Surrender at The Howard Theatre has one songstress elated. Lizz Wright is scheduled to perform  on Sept. 11. “I played at The Howard Theater as a part of a dinner to honor Bill Cosby some years ago and I loved […]

Migdalia Root has dreamed of seeing the pope since she was a girl attending St. Ephraim Catholic Church in the Dyker Heights area of Brooklyn.  A devout Catholic, Root visited Vatican City hoping to catch a glimpse of Pope John Paul II, without any luck.  Now, a grandmother and retired District of Columbia civil servant, […]

Regina Turner (Courtesy Photo) The second annual D.C. “Ride to Conquer Cancer,” a two-day bicycle ride benefitting cancer research, carries a special meaning to one rider. Wendell Smith, 64, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, lost the love of his life, Regina Turner, to pancreatic cancer on March 12, 2014. She would have turned 62 on March […]

Mayor Bowser and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier are creating policies and procedures to reduce crime in the city. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) unveiled her anti-crime package on Aug. 27 at the former Malcolm X Elementary School in Southeast. It has been met with mixed opinions. However, District residents are not sitting […]

AME Bishop Reginald T. Jackson and other Black Methodist clergy join in the fight against racism. (Courtesy Photo) The leaders of three Black-based Methodist denominations based in the District announced recently that they are joining forces to fight racism and encourage fairness for all Americans. On Sept. 2, Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, chair of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) […]

G.I.R.L. participants in an etiquette class. (Photo Courtesy of Jovon Gerald) Jovon Gerald decided to launch a nonprofit in 2011 after he realized there was a need to create a haven where girls between the ages of 10 and 16 could come together and discuss their concerns. G.I.R.L. (Got the Intelligence to Rule my Life) […]

Howard University students sat in the Mordecai Johnson Administration Building Sept. 4 to protest what they said was poor customer service and repeated failures with the financial aid office, campus housing and other student services. (Howard University News Service) Dozens of disgruntled Howard University students piled into the Mordecai Johnson Administration Building on Sept. 4. […]

By AFRO Staff Urban American Outdoors TV (UAOTV) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife, the National Parks Service, Healthy Parks and Healthy People and the U.S. Forest Service will host the Urban Kids Fishing Derby. The fishing experience and celebration will be held on Sept. 19 at the Constitution Gardens located at 1850 Constitution Ave. NW. […]

CHAW Stage Play The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) will present Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s stage play Inheritance Canyon on Wednesdays and Saturdays from Sept. 18 – Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the black box theatre at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. Matinees will be held on Oct. 3 & […]