DC Emancipation
Reporter: Damon Countee UJW Winter/Spring 2017 April 16 marked 155 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensation Emancipation Act, which granted freedom to about three thousand one hundred enslaved […]
African-American Museum Impacts All Races
Reporter: Caitlin Ballard UJW Winter/Spring 2017 In Washington, D.C., The National Museum of African-American History and Culture has been up and running for less than a year and attendance has […]
Remembering Ella’s Eloquent Elocution a Century After Her Birth
Reporter: Essence Epperson UJW Winter/Spring 2017 Ella Fitzgerald was born a century ago on the 25th of April. Tributes are taking place across the country to mark the 100th year of […]
The Searing Words Of A Rapper’s Beef
Reporter: Miles Peterson UJW Winter/Spring 2017 Over time, it’s been called “Yo Mama Jokes”, the Dozens,” and other names. In modern rap music, it’s called “beef”. By any title, […]
Annual Kite Festival Has Novice to Expert Soaring High
Reporter: Madison Brown UJW Winter/Spring 2017 At year 51 the Cherry Blossom Kite Festival is still flying high. Whether you’re a professional or a novice, the National Mall in the […]
2017 Scholarship Winner – Essence Epperson
She will be attending Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama starting Autumn 2017 A U-S military airstrike on a building in Mosul, Iraq killed 105 civilians during an attack in March this […]
