Hamil R. Harris
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35 Churches Receive $4 Million Grant for National Trust for Historic Preservation
Grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation are being used to rehabilitate African American churches across the country. → Read More
Civil Rights Activists Who Knew MLK Still Going Strong
Had King lived, he would have been 94 on Jan. 15. → Read More
Gone But Not Forgotten: Remembering Those Who Died in 2022
The world, nation and Washington, D.C., area alike lost icons from all walks of life in 2022. → Read More
Christmas Decorations Connect People to Their Past
From the thousands of lights that adorn The United House of Prayer for All People Bishop’s residence, to a sculpture of Mary holding the body of Jesus in and around homes, to wreaths hanging on doors across the District, Maryland and Virginia, decorations represent decades of holiday traditions. → Read More
Taste of the Nation Makes Stop in D.C. to Fight Childhood Hunger
It isn’t every day that can one find New Orleans chef Isaac Toups serving liver moose with red onion marmalade next to D.C. chef Reid Shilling who prepared deviled eggs […] → Read More
Local Clergy Welcome Return to In-Person Good Friday Service
Easter is ushering in a new season of growth for the pastors of some of the largest congregations in the D.C. area after two years of online services and limited live worship experiences. → Read More
Veteran News Anchor Bruce Johnson Suffers Fatal Heart Attack
Chester Bruce Johnson, a veteran television anchorman in the greater Washington area and trusted voice on WUSA9 for more than four decades, died of a heart attack Sunday in Delaware at the age of 71. → Read More
Are the Armed Forces Still a Viable Career Option for Blacks?
While more than 61,000 Americans had been killed in the Vietnam War by 1974, Georgia Eaves, a mother of three from the District, chose to enlist in the United States Army. → Read More
Clark Ray of Arkansas Became a Son of D.C.
Sometimes people come along with a heart so big that they transcend race, class and socioeconomic status during a life that impacts generations. → Read More
African American Pastors Rally, Lobby for Voting Rights Legislation
Singing Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round, a coalition of faith leaders and civil rights activists marched Wednesday to the gates of the White House, where they prayed and called Congress to pass voting rights legislation stalled by Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill. → Read More
D.C. Health Officials and Faith Leaders Offer Assistance in the Wake of Multiple Infant Deaths
When they come upon the scene of a dead child or a teenager, even the most hard-edged police officer turns ashen. When the deceased is an infant or toddler, the reaction is often bitter tears. → Read More
D.C.’s Proposed Sugar Tax Sparks Racially Charged Debate
A hearing on the Nutrition Equity Amendment Act of 2021 is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m.. before Council member Brianne K. Nadeau (Ward 1), who chairs the Committee on Human Services. Her bill would repeal the District's 8% sales tax on sugary drinks and impose a 1.5-cent-per-ounce tax on the distribution of sugary beverages in the District. → Read More
‘I, Sniper’: Terror Delivered from the Trunk of a Car
In October of 2002, 10 people died and three others were critically wounded by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. Hidden in a makeshift sniper's nest in the trunk of a Caprice Classic, the duo co-authored a bloody rampage that shook the Washington, D.C., area. → Read More
St. Ann’s Infant Home, a Post-Civil War Icon, Observes 160 Years of Charity
With the Civil War slogging into a second bloody year, Washington, D.C. teeming with Union army soldiers overwhelmed by a surge of abandoned children and single mothers, on March 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act of Congress to incorporate St. Ann's Infant Asylum. → Read More
August Wilson Society Celebrates Genius of Late Black Playwright
The D.C.-based August Wilson Society on Tuesday marked its 15th anniversary on what would have been the late playwright's 76th birthday during a virtual celebration that served as a poignant reminder of how gifted he was. → Read More
Dr. Darryll Pines Installed to Lead University of Maryland
A quarter of a century after arriving at College Park in pursuit of an ambitious agenda as an assistant professor in aerospace engineering, Dr. Darryll J. Pines finds himself the University of Maryland’s 34th president who is now in pursuit of ambitious goals that include recruiting and retaining more faculty members of color. → Read More
African Americans Share Perspectives on Chauvin Trial
The news that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had been found guilty on all three counts in the George Floyd murder trial quickly spread – from the public square outside of the Hennepin County Government Center to communities across America. → Read More
Local Megachurches to Host In-Person Easter Services
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on many houses of faith in the African American community. While some pastors are again preaching in their pulpits, others say that their members are not there yet in terms of reopening their sanctuaries, but change is coming. → Read More
Fear, Cultural Mores Keep Many Asian Americans Silent Following Atlanta Murders
For some Americans, the shocking attacks and murders over a week ago by a white man in Atlanta that took the lives of eight people, six of them Asian women, provide further credence for more stringent gun control laws in the U.S. despite objections from those who point to the Second Amendment. → Read More
For Angela Stribling, Nighttime Is the Right Time
It’s after midnight and while it's bedtime for most people around the Washington, D.C., area, Angela Stribling is just warming up her smooth, silky voice to get lovers in the mood. → Read More