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DC Black Film Festival begins Thursday, August 19-22, 2021. This is a virtual event. Schedule |  Virtual Tickets (VTs) | Up-to-date info  | This right here .

The virtual 2021 CBC-ALC is scheduled for September 12-17. This year's theme is Black Excellence Unparalleled:Pressing Onward in Power. Powerful forums and discussions will include DC statehood, financial wellness, civil rights and criminal justice (and that's just within the first two days). 2021 CBC-ALC conference sessions. ( Source )  Click here to register as well as see the complete outline of offerings. Established in 1971,  the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has been committed to using the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the federal government to ensure that African Americans and other marginalized communities in the United States have the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. The Caucus is Chaired by Congresswoman Joyce Beatty.  LEARN:  About the Congressional Black Caucus  and its mission.

In this episode of DC Cops Gone Wild (Again), video evidence shows a metropolitan police officer punching a restrained man in the face and mid section – several times- for allegedly selling drugs and having a gun. The department claims they are doing what they can to keep guns off the streets.   We know that DC has had multiple incidences - this summer - of gun violence , car jackings, shootings, and deaths. However, is beating a person in the face while the perp is handcuffed the way to get guns off the street?  Was the alleged weapon checked to see if it was illegal, or assumed to be illegal? (Are  white people with guns  treated this way?) DC officers under investigation for treatment of restrained man. This latest incident is reminiscent of the Baltimore cop who punched a man  in the face nearly one year to the day that DC officers stood and watched their colleague punch an unarmed man this weekend. The attack was so gruesome it prompted @dcpolicedept to...

COVID-19 is real. **Updated 8/18/2021 The D.C. area has re-issued its mask mandate, requiring everyone to mask up when indoors. COVID-19 is still here, whether you want to believe it's a variant of the virus that we all learned about a year ago, or not, it hasn't left and probably won't for a while, unfortunately. Hospitals across the country have seen an increase in COVID patients, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, to include DC metro areas. Graph shows COVID cases rising in D.C. "It's going  up again", said a nurse we interviewed working out of a Fairfax hospital. Many people, after being fully vaccinated, believe they can't get the virus. While many are choosing to remain masked up, there are still those who believe the vaccine will protect them as they go about their daily lives without wearing a mask in public spaces. Sadly, we know that even vaccinated people are contracting the virus . "Both groups are getting it. The vaccinated and the unvacci...

Collaborated with Hip Hop, Go-Go, and R&B's finest. If you enjoyed the soulful music of the 90’s, if you enjoy good music today, you’ve probably heard the musical influence of Charles “Chucky” Thompson.   Thompson passed Monday due to COVID-19 complications. A Howard grad (don’t all good things come out of Howard?), Thompson was the musical brains behind many artists: from the Father of Go-Go, Chuck Brown, to Faith Evans, to Nas, to Biggie, to Boys to Men, to Mariah Carey, and beyond. If you grooved to the beat of Biggie’s One More Chance and crooned to Raheem DeVaughn’s hit  titled, Woman , you have entered the Chucky Thompson musical experience. DC native, Chucky Thompson dies of COVID.  It would take up too much space in this article to include all of Thompson’s works. Fortunately, Wikipedia has an outline of his catalog and producer credits here . Fans were stunned to learn of his passing and took to socialmedia to share their thoughts and memories of ...