Spencer Dinwiddie & Cam Thomas – IG screenshot *Welcome to today’s Social Heat which is – needless to say – super hot! Brooklyn Nets guard Cam Thomas has got to give up a whopping $40,000 after being fined for using “derogatory and disparaging language during a live television interview,” the NBA announced Friday. Thomas was
F22 Fighter Jet – Getty *(CNN) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that an “unidentified object” had been shot down over Canadian airspace on his orders. “I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled
By Donald Williams, Special to the AFRO It is officially tax season, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which declared that this year’s tax season started on Monday, Jan. 23. It’s that special time of year when people collect their documents to either rush over to their tax preparer or enter in themselves so
On Feb. 4, marching bands from some of the country’s top historically Black colleges convened in Atlanta for the HBCU All-Star Battle of the Bands. A total of six college-level marching bands participated in the event, along with Pebblebrook and Westlake High Schools, local to the Atlanta area. HBCU bands in attendance included Alabama State
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com D.C. Council Committee – human resources and employee performance oversight hearings On Feb. 15 at 9:30 a.m. the D.C. Council’s Committee on Executive Administration and Labor will hold a performance oversight hearing. The Department of Human Resources, Office of Employee Appeals, Public Employees Relations Board, Office of Labor
By Kisha Clark If you’re like me, you gasped when you first saw D.C.’s PARCC, or the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, scores this past fall. You may have even cried or became upset. I experienced all those emotions in less than five minutes. Then, I quickly shifted to thinking about
By Tashi McQueen, AFRO Political Writer, tmcqueen@afro.com Fagan Harris, a social entrepreneur with roots in Baltimore and Bowie, and a past that includes a term in Oxford, England as a Rhodes Scholar, says he has always been eager to serve people. “I love helping and engaging with people, and I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit,”
by Aswad Walker Attempts to block, discredit, distort, colonize and criminalize Black (African, Pan-African) history have been going on since the early 1470s. That’s roughly 550 years worth of eurocentric whitewashing; or as folk in the halls of academia call it, “epistemic violence.” Epistemic violence is not physical violence, like busting somebody upside the head.
By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com On Jan. 25 the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority broke ground on a project to turn the District’s Northern Bus Garage back into what it started out as a century ago–a home for the city’s electric public transportation vehicles. Metro is spending close to $500 million to build
By Anissa Durham, Word In Black No one is coming to save them. It should be no surprise families with chronically ill children are behind on rent. They are behind on bills. After all, the United States is the only wealthy nation without guaranteed universal health coverage. Our system simply isn’t set up to save