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Discover The Weekender Festival: A Celebration of Community, Wealth, and Music
Welcome to The Weekender Festival, where community empowerment, wealth-building insights, and vibrant music collide! This family-oriented,…
The Weekender Festival 2024: Empowering Public Housing and Unity Celebration
Are you ready for a weekend of electrifying music, vibrant culture, and community empowerment? Look no…
Welcome to America: what new African immigrants actually need to know first
A practical roadmap for the paperwork, money, food shock, and network-building that decide how smoothly the…
Twenty-five years later: how 9/11 reshaped Black America, Africa and the Caribbean diaspora
The victims, the policies and the institutional battles that followed September 11 touched African, Caribbean, Afro-Latino…
Why African food costs more in America, and who is really paying for it
Daddy Clivert’s viral comments turned a long-running diaspora complaint into a full-blown trend, and the comment…
African immigrant truck drivers face new CDL ban
At a glance For the African immigrant families across the DMV who built businesses one truck…
Asake cancelled his Los Angeles show, and nobody knows why
Fans are split between two theories, and the singer’s team has said nothing At a glance…
Haiti’s TPS Just Ended. The DMV’s Haitian Community Is Feeling It This Labor Day
A quiet Labor Day weekend reflects a bigger legal reality: Haitian TPS holders in Maryland, DC…
The Top 5 New Nollywood Movies to Watch This September
From a viral skit character’s big-screen debut to a Netflix crime series six years in the…
Afro Plus Fest is about to take over both Northwest Stadium and DC’s nightlife scene
A three-day Labor Day weekend festival and its after-party circuit are pulling tens of thousands into…
UNESCO’s General History of Africa now has a full volume dedicated to the diaspora
The updated eleven-volume series is reshaping how schools in Africa and beyond teach African and diaspora…
King of Ghana’s Ashanti Kingdom Visits Howard University: A Historic Bridge for the DMV Diaspora
The global African diaspora and the vibrant community of Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (the DMV)…