Category: Washington D.C. News

Legendary singer Patti LaBelle, recipient of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greater Washington Urban League’s Unsung Heroes 44th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Gala, delighted attendees with a special performance on March 11. See additional photos of the event in the AFRO next week. (Photo by Rob Roberts) The Greater Washington Urban […]

Tony Norman is an attorney in the District and a progressive activist. (Courtesy Photo-WPFW) Tony Norman, a former Ward 1 advisory neighborhood commissioner, was recently elected chairman of the Pacifica Radio Foundation. Pacifica, a pioneer in listener-sponsored radio in the U.S., is known for its liberal slant in political coverage and for shows such as Democracy […]

Residents gather outside Foundry United Methodist Church March 5 to advocate for more affordable housing in D.C. (Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman ) The atmosphere at Foundry United Methodist Church was charged with excitement. Mayor Muriel Bowser, D.C. Council Housing and Community Development Committee Chair Anita Bonds, and Councilmember Elissa Silverman, joined roughly 500 residents […]

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio won 10 delegates in the D.C. Republican primary. (Courtesy Photo) While billionaire Donald Trump may be winning primaries in many states, he came up significantly short compared to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the District Republican primary.  Rubio edged past Kasich in the March 12 […]

New research presented at the American Academy of Dermatology’s 74th Annual meeting shed light on the causes of increased hair loss among African-Americans. At the conference, held March 4-8 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the prevalence of hair loss was presented as largely ignored and viewed as an aesthetic problem rather than medical, […]

107 year old D.C. resident, Virginia McLaurin, danced and did ball tricks with Harlem Globetrotters Moose Weekes and Zeus McClurkin March 15 at Roots Public Charter School in Northwest D.C.

The Metropolitan Police Department is still investigating the homicide of a Maryland resident in the District of Columbia, according to a department spokesperson. Around 3 p.m. on March 1, D.C. police responded to a shooting in the 4200 block of 6th Street S.E., where they found Rudolph Garris, 25, a resident of Suitland, Maryland, suffering […]

The Split This Rock group is hosting D.C. Youth Slam Team Grand Slam Finals at the Arena Stage Mead Theater, 1101 6th Street S.W., on March 18. The event is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. The finals will showcase eight finalists who will be competing for a chance to appear in the Brave New […]

(Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — The entire Washington, D.C., subway system will shut down for at least 29 hours to inspect electrical components on the tracks, an official briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Tuesday, posing a potentially disastrous commute for hundreds of thousands of workers in the […]

Members of community and police in Crime Walk March 8. (Photo Courtesy/Linda Poulson) WASHINGTON – Two anti-crime walks were conducted recently in Ward 8 neighborhoods that have suffered an infestation of crime, including one homicide, two shootings and a stabbing since Feb 29. “The purpose of the walks is for more community residents to come […]

The Washington, D.C. government began the process of dissembling “Tent City” near the Union Station metro station March 10. The site was a place where several of the city’s homeless took shelter under tents. (Photo by Linda Poulson) The removal of tents, personal belongings and debris began the morning of March 10 as  Washington’s “Tent […]

George M. Hampton is the first Black man to have a Prince William County school named after him. Prince William County Schools recently renamed Godwin Middle School after George M. Hampton. He is the first living Black man to have a school in the county named after him. According to a press release, as of […]