By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com It’s been over three months since District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed she assumed another position-motherhood- and until her appearance on Thursday’s “NBC 4 Today Show,” she’s been fairly private about her new addition. “It couldn’t be more perfect,” Bowser told NBC’s Hoda Kotb. “I got into politics. […]
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Brazile Lands Teaching Gig at Howard
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com When Donna Brazile began her work as a lecturer at Howard University on Sept. 4, everyone was expecting her to lecture on the virtues of working in politics and tell a few war stories from her years as a campaign manager, activist and staffer on Capitol Hill. Instead Brazile […]
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Carl Day-Baker is First Homicide of September
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com From the first 11 deaths in January 2018 to 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson’s death in July, the District of Columbia has seen an uptick in violence that is making residents beg for people to put their guns down. According to D.C. Witness, which tracks homicides in the District, there have […]
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Is DC’s Team Coming Home?
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com When the Washington football team moved from Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Stadium in the District of Columbia to what is now FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, some District of Columbia fans never got over it. However, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) has revived the hopes of Redskins fans when […]
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Local Automotive Program Gives Students an Opportunity to Excel
By Akil Wilson, Special to the AFRO A District of Columbia program is educating residents from some of the city’s most underserved neighborhoods in one of today’s most in demand trades. The Excel Automotive Institute, located at 1235 Kenilworth Ave. NE, teaches the fundamentals of automotive technology in a classroom setting as well as a fully […]
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In Memoriam: Ocie M. Jackson
By The AFRO Staff Ocie M. Jackson a high level Department of Defense worker, died at the age of 94 on August 26 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney, Maryland. Ocie M. Jackson (Courtesy Photo) She was a native of Oxford, North Carolina born on January 12, 1924 as one of twelve children of the […]
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Uncle of DC Woman in Viral Violent Bus Smashing Video Speaks Out
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Last week police released video of a furious young woman, now identified as Mariana Silver, banging on a Greyhound bus window before unapologetically driving away and hitting the bus driver in the process. The video went viral, Silver is now in police custody and now her uncle is weighing […]
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Dockless Bike Company Launches Donation Program for D.C. Nonprofit
By Christina Sturdivant Sani Smart mobility company Lime has launched a program called LimeHero that lets people who ride their dockless bikes and scooters make a donation to a non-profit that assists residents east of the Anacostia River. The company, which operates in multiple cities across the country, bills the donation program as “the first […]
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DC Farmer’s Market Will Match Money Spent by Food Assistance Recipients
By Tyra Wilkes, Special to the AFRO Now eating fresh and healthy foods is even easier for those receiving government assistance. FRESHFARM Markets, the Washington Metropolitan based grocer, will match every dollar spent by recipients of nutrition benefit programs. SNAP (EBT/Food Stamps), WIC, and Senior Farmers Market benefits are accepted at all FRESHFARM locations, allowing recipients […]
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60 Years of Being More Than Just Ben’s Chili Bowl
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO The District shut down a portion of U Street in front of a nationally renowned restaurant while more than 500 residents, local celebrities, politicos, tourists and others danced the afternoon away. It was all in service of the 60th anniversary of Ben’s Chili Bowl and its 84-year-old matriarch, […]
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GOP’S Chittams Seeks Council Seat in Democrat Stronghold
By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, jwright@afro.com The Rev. Ralph Chittams Sr., a Republican, is fed up with the way the District of Columbia is being run by its politicians so he has decided to run for the D.C. Council to make the nation’s capital a better place to live. “The Council needs a dissenting voice,” […]
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High School Football Coming to RFK Stadium
By MARK F. GRAY, Special to the AFRO Without tenants RFK Stadium no longer rocks like it did when NFL, Major League Baseball, and Major League Soccer franchises called it home. However, for one afternoon in mid-September, the venue that played host to so many big games for more than 50 years, will wake up the […]