https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:46:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/anacostia-community-museum-aims-to-keep-black-d-c-art-history-alive/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:16:59 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16823 Anacostia Community Museum will debut its exhibit, “The Bold and Beautiful,” to celebrate Black D.C. artists and their educators this month.  “The more you dig into the history of Black artist educators in [D.C.], the more you realize that there really is a lineage, a tradition, across generations,” said Samir Meghelli, curator at Anacostia Community Museum. Meghelli said the Anacostia Community Museum was founded as one of the first museums in the District to consistently feature Black art.  “We were founded in 1967 and at that time, we were one of the few institutions in the city that was really]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/first-d-c-statehood-meeting-held-in-over-20-years-and-possible-future-of-the-district/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:03:29 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=9134   The average American has no idea that D.C. doesn’t have the same rights as the rest of the country. That includes no representation in the Senate and a non-voting representative in the House. While U.S. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton serves in the House by working in committees, speaking on the floor and sponsoring bills, she can’t vote on any legislation’s final passage.  Realizing all this, Washingtonians from all ends of the political spectrum gathered together for the Sept. 19 statehood hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building. This hearing focused on legislation that would turn D.C. into a state,]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/science-technology/innovation-over-limitations-garrett-morgan-the-multi-patented-inventor/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:02:48 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=9097 Whether it is cultivating pecans and turning them into cash crops or creating the “miracle of sound” that is black music, black people have been at the forefront of creating inventions that become staple fixtures in American society. As Tiya Miles noted in her 1619 piece for the New York Time Magazine, “The Enslaved Pecan Pioneer,” it was a slave gardener named Antoine who created what would become America’s first successful commercially viable pecan varietal. Black people have made contributions in the realms of food, music (as Wesley Morris pointed out in his piece on popular American music), entertainment and]]> https://hunewsservice.com/multimedia/video/african-takeover-day-culture-pride-continue-in-annual-celebration/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:02:10 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/african-takeover-day-culture-pride-continue-in-annual-celebration/ Photo Courtesy Judayah Murray #BlackGirlsYouTubeToo   Black History Month takes on new meaning as students from across the African diaspora celebrate "African Takeover Day." As NewsVision reporter Dawchelle Hamilton reports, the tradition is one which brings on even more meaning for students at Howard University.  ]]>