Category: Washington D.C. News

Kenyan McDuffie represents Ward 5 on the D.C. Council. D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) is the chief author of a bill to prohibit credit checks of potential employees until a conditional offer is made. He introduced the bill, The Fair Credit History Steering Act of 2015 to his colleagues on June 2. McDuffie wants to use the legislation as […]

The Sasha Bruce Youthwork (P.O.W.E.R.) Program will hold the launch of #Never2Early, its social media campaign, to advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention to local teens through a day party on June 20. The free day party is 2 to 6 p.m. at LIV Nightclub, 2001 11th NW. The party is only for teens from […]

The AARP 2414 Brookland-Woodridge Chapter will hold its Annual Spring Luncheon, “Come, Sail Away With Us On An Imaginary Cruise to Your Favorite Island,” 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., June 15, at the Northeastern Presbyterian Church, 2112 Varnum Street N.E. Participants are encouraged to wear their favorite island outfit. Tickets cost $25. For more information […]

Do More 24 campaign volunteers (Photo by Hyon Smith Photography) While Washington, D.C. and its surrounding counties have been identified as some of the most affluent areas in the nation, disproportionate access to resources still hinders many residents. “There is a delicate balance with the pride of who we are as a region,” Rosie Allen-Herring, […]

A Centennial Legend’s Scholarship Gala will be held 7 p.m., June 13 in Dr. Hooker’s honor in the metropolitan area at Marriot Wardman Park, 2660 Woodley Rd NW. Tickets cost $20. This year the goal is to raise $10,000 to $20,000 to provide scholarships for college bound students or students currently enrolled in college under […]

LaShea Iyonna Way, owner of Princess Iyonna’s Princess Parties (Photo courtesy of L. I. Way) Before Princess Tiana premiered as Walt Disney’s first African-American princess in the 2009 film “The Princess and the Frog,” the D.C. metro area had Princess Iyonna. As a former model, LaShea Iyonna Way recognized a lack of diversity among princesses […]

Ayah Syeed and Sakina Ahmad of Girl Scouts Troop 920 discuss their award-winning robotic design during the Verizon panel to promote STEM among girls. (AFRO/ Photo/Shantella Y. Sherman) A group of local Girl Scout troops heard firsthand about the benefits of embarking on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM careers from female employees of […]

U.S. Rep. John Conyers addresses media about the importance of job training, as recent Project H.O.P.E. graduate, Phyllis Ussery looks on. The young people trained by Raymond Bell through D.C.’s Project H.O.P.E. are no strangers to the transformative power of proper training. Since 2009, Bell has successfully trained 375, mostly African-American youth, in the IT […]

LaDavia Drane is D.C.’s director of Federal Regional Affairs. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton knows that she will need strong Black support to win the White House in 2016. So she has hired a former Congressional Black Caucus executive director to help her do that. Clinton has hired LaDavia Drane, who works for D.C. Mayor Muriel […]

WASHINGTON — It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture had searched for so desperately – the remains of one of the hundreds of ships that were used to transport millions of Africans into slavery in the Western Hemisphere. The sunken slave ship, São […]

WASHINGTON — Scores of Washington-area residents got up early – very early – to walk to raise money to educate men about prostate cancer and to support prostate cancer research and outreach at the Howard University Cancer Center. Participants began at 6:30 a.m. at scenic Hains Point at the southern tip of East Potomac Park […]