Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In 1920s Harlem, dancing ...

“It was a Washington, D.C. dance, but as people moved out to the suburbs they took it with them,” said Beverly Lindsay-Johnson of Fort Washington, Md., who serves as president of the National Hand ...

Tony Thomas, education program coordinator at the Anacostia Community Museum, remembers when he was a boy joining other youngsters in the basement while upstairs his parents hosted a card game called, ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

Lawrence Bradford, dancer, teacher influential choreographer of DC Hand Dance. DC native, dancer, choreographer and teacher - Lawrence Bradford was the most influential hand dancer and instrumental in ...