Sports Review: LA Wildcats Hammer DC Defenders in First Road Game
By Mark F. GrayAFRO Staff Writer After all the warm and fuzziness that accompanied two triumphant home victories to open the season, the D.C. Defenders first road trip had to…
Former Baltimore Mayor Sentenced to 3 years in Book Scheme
By REGINA GARCIA CANO, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore was sentenced to three years in federal prison Thursday for arranging fraudulent sales of her…
‘Mother Road’ Offers a Way Out
By Micha GreenAFRO D.C. Editor If John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath defined the American Dream, when published in 1939, Octavio Solis’ Mother Road modernizes the ideal with an…
‘There’s Power in the Black Vote’
By Micha GreenAFRO D.C. Editor Twenty-twenty is not only the start of a new decade and the year of clear vision, it is an important election season. And for that…
AFRO Exclusive: Why D.C. Audiences Need the Amen Corner in 2020
By Micha GreenAFRO D.C. Editor One good way to celebrate Black History Month and the greatness and complexity that is Black Americanism, is by taking a visit to Shakespeare Theatre…
The Blacks of the 1960s
The Blacks of the 1960s Despite the victory of Brown v. Board of Education in the previous decade, most African-Americans in the ‘60s found themselves still bound by oppressive, segregated…
Kara Walker’s Tate Commission Is a Major Disappointment – ARTnews.com
When he was the mayor of London, in 2008, Boris Johnson endorsed a proposal to erect a £4 million bronze statue memorializing the survivors of British slavery. The figures in…
Scientific Committee of the Uffizi Gallery Quits Over Loan of Raphael – ARTnews.com
On Tuesday, the scientific committee at the Uffizi gallery in Florence, a group of experts tasked with evaluating which artworks are fit for loan, quit en masse in protest over…
Brazilian Collector Bernardo Paz Cleared of Criminal Charges – ARTnews.com
After more than two years, in what was perhaps one of the most shocking decisions in a criminal case to roil the Brazilian contemporary art scene, that ruling has been…
Minimalist Donald Judd’s Collected Writings and Interviews – ARTnews.com
In 1961 Donald Judd wrote a letter to the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) on behalf of fellow artist Yayoi Kusama. Such letters, meant to be included with…