By Aria Brent, AFRO Staff Writer, abrent@afro.com The 13th annual Lake Arbor Jazz Festival is taking place July 12-16 in Prince George’s County, Md. This year’s festival is full of fun events to accompany the lineup of artists and musicians who will be taking the stage. The festival is the cornerstone fundraising event of The
The Moore Report, Ralph Moore, Jr. By Ralph E. Moore Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a middle child in the birth order of children from the union of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King, Jr.’s older sister, Christine King Farris, died on June 29, 2023, in the city of their birth
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Bobby Henry, the publisher of the Westside Gazette in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., won the election as chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) during the organization’s 2023 convention in Nashville, Tenn. The NNPA is the trade association of more than 200 African American-owned newspapers and media companies in
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire After the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to end Affirmative Action in higher education, a civil rights group has launched a challenge to legacy admissions at Harvard University. Lawyers for Civil Rights, a Boston-based nonprofit, filed a complaint, arguing that the practice unfairly favors predominantly White children of alumni and
by Lauren Liebhaber Canva A population’s health depends on and reflects the capacity of its health care system. The U.S. health care system is facing a shortage of doctors and nurses. As a result, almost 100 million Americans live in primary health care shortage areas where staffing doesn’t meet demand. A rapidly aging and ailing
By Hannah Schoenbaum and Kimberlee Kruesi State investigators were on site Monday at a North Carolina amusement park after a crack was discovered on a support beam on one of their popular roller coasters. Tommy Petty, chief of the state Department of Labor’s Amusement Device Bureau, said investigators from his department “already came and went”
By Howard Fendrich As Venus Williams entered Centre Court for her 24th Wimbledon appearance at age 43, greeted by a standing ovation, she held a green exercise band overhead with both hands and stretched it while striding to her sideline seat. Once her first-round match against Elina Svitolina began, Williams played like a throwback version
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com The National Park Service (NPS) is in search of a new long-term operator for the Fort Washington Marina in Prince George’s County, Md. The agency released a request for proposal (RFP) for the boatyard on June 20 and gave a September 5 deadline for submission. This new RFP
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com The Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak opened to D.C.’s Congress Heights community on June 14. The 23,000-square-foot community-led and sustainable development is now home to 13 local, Black-owned small businesses ranging from restaurants to apparel stores. The retail village is expected to create more than 100 jobs
By Laura Ungar Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within