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The Best in Jazz Are Honored in D.C.

by Brenda C. Siler May 8, 2025May 13, 2025

There are lots of memories in the office of Fred Irby III, professor of music at Howard University. He is retiring after 51 years at the university. Irby is the founder and director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble, coordinator of instrumental music, and trumpet instructor. He is in the band room taking instrument inventory. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)

Fred Irby Took Jazz to New Heights at Howard University

by Brenda C. Siler April 30, 2025April 30, 2025

Maame Boakye and Nina Oduro, co-founders of Dine Diaspora and co-creators of the Black Women in Food Summit, open the event, which was held April 25-26 at the Eaton Hotel. (Jacques Benovil/The Washington Informer)

Gathering of Black Women Ready to Take On the Food Industry

by Brenda C. Siler April 30, 2025April 30, 2025

GRAMMYs Continue to Advocate for Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence and Other Digital Replicas

by Brenda C. Siler April 21, 2025April 21, 2025

Maame Boakye and Nina Oduro are co-founders of the Black Women in Food Summit, which will take place in D.C. from April 25-26. (Courtesy of Adedayo Kosok, The Art Hype)

Summit Offers More Than the Ingredients for Success in the Food Industry

by Brenda C. Siler April 16, 2025April 16, 2025

Wiper Week took place from April 1-5 at three locations, including Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Maryland, where more than 500 cars came to get free windshield wipers on April 4. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

More than 3,000 Sets of Free Windshield Wipers Distributed in D.C. Metro Area’s First Wiper Week

by Brenda C. Siler April 7, 2025April 7, 2025

Now in theaters, “Opus“ is a thriller about entertainment journalists, written and directed by Mark Anthony Green. Featured in the movie is John Malkovich, a legendary pop icon, and Emmy award-winning actress Ayo Edebiri, a young journalist hoping to get a scoop. (Courtesy of A24 Films)

Journalists Caught In Web of Sensationalism in the Film ‘Opus’

by Brenda C. Siler March 27, 2025March 27, 2025

**FILE** A performance during DC Jazz Festival at The Wharf in September 2022. The Washington Informer is a regular media partner for the annual DC Jazz Festival and covers related programming. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)

Arts Appreciators: Local Artistic Leaders, Celebrate Six Decades of The Informer

by Brenda C. Siler and Micha Green March 26, 2025March 27, 2025

Ahmir Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove, is highlighting the untold story of Sly Stone, lead singer of Sly and the Family Stone, in the new Hulu documentary “Sly Lives!” (Courtesy photo)

Questlove Gives Us All of Sly Stone

by Brenda C. Siler March 19, 2025March 19, 2025

"Black Stage: Classical Canon," a collaboration between Howard University’s Theatre Arts Department in the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts and Shakespeare Theatre Company, has collaborated on Black classical theatre history for a program airing now on WHUT-TV. (Courtesy of The Shakespeare Theatre)

The Classics Still Live in Black Theater

by Brenda C. Siler March 12, 2025March 12, 2025