By The Christian Recorder This weekend in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Great Lakes Annual Conference held its first session under Bishop David R. Daniels, Jr. Of special note was the presence of pastors from the country of Rwanda which was joined to the Great Lakes Conference by the 2012 General Conference. For
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, Report for America Corps Member, tmcqueen@afro.com D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser expanded the resources of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Cadet Corp program by opening a new training center. “Our investments in the MPD Cadet Corps program are investments in our young people and the future of public safety in
By Reginald Williams, Special to the AFRO The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that more than a half million persons who persistently experience homelessness in America. According to the Washington, D.C.-based organization, about 70 percent are single individuals. The remaining 100,000 are dominated by families with children. But in 2019, the U.S. Department of
By Eve Sampson, Capital News Service Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Department of Defense report recently released, calls China the greatest threat to the United States. The unclassified 2022 National Defense Strategy, a report that lays the groundwork for future military planning, and calls the People’s Republic of China “our most consequential strategic competitor
By DaQuan Lawrence, Politics Reporter, Howard University News Service The Center for African Studies (CAS) at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and the African Center for the Study of the United States (ACSUS) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, are currently partnering with the Johannesburg Convention Bureau, North Carolina Central University and
By KRISTIE RIEKEN, The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — For now and forever, Dusty Baker, the epic storyteller, first-class name-dropper, toothpick chewer and baseball lifer will bear a most distinguished title. World Series champion manager. The man who can weave a tale like few others, wistfully recalling his time under Hank Aaron’s tutelage or chance encounters
*(CNN) — Andrea Campbell first met Kamala Harris when the then-California attorney general gave the address at her 2009 UCLA Law school commencement. More than a decade later, Campbell watched as Vice President Harris rallied a gymnasium full of Democrats to support her in her bid to become the first Black female attorney general of
*Funnyman Chris Redd has come out to clarify some issues about the October 26 violent attack he underwent outside a comedy club in New York City. The comedian had to be hospitalized after the incident. “This man hit me in the face with something metal,” the Saturday Night Live alum said, in an interview published
*(CNN) — Before she became one of America’s most-decorated Special Olympics athletes, before the made-for-TV movie and the shared stages with actor Denzel Washington and Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Loretta Claiborne was a great-granddaughter — of one Anna Johnson. Johnson died mysteriously after the 1969 race riots in Claiborne’s hometown of York, Pennsylvania.
*Malakai Roberts, a 7-year-old Kentucky native, permanently lost his sight following a gun violence incident that left him with a bullet in the head in December 2020. Rappers Percy “Master P” Miller and Snoop Dogg are now out to help the gun violence victim to become an author. Master P took to his Instagram page