By AFRO Workers
The AFRO will host its annual D.C. Excessive Tea on Sept. 7 from 2 – 5 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church.
Annually the publication hosts the tea in honor of women and men who’ve considerably impacted the Black neighborhood.
The AFRO will acknowledge Prince George’s County Government Angela Alsobrooks on the 2024 occasion, together with Congresswoman Eleanour Holmes Norton, civic chief and professor Cora Masters Barry and Former D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt.
“This 12 months’s honorees had been chosen as a result of their exceptional and unwavering service to the D.C. neighborhood,” mentioned Diane Hocker, AFRO director of neighborhood and public relations. “It’s going to be a pleasant tea with a lot of excessive vitality. Our attendees could have the possibility to community, be entertained and luxuriate in some scrumptious meals.”
Hocker began planning this 12 months’s tea in December 2023. The occasion final got here to D.C. in 2022, honoring Cathy Hughes, Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Denise Rolark Barnes, Michelle Richardson and Karyn A.Temple. The job of organizing the D.C. tea handed to her after the dying of D.C.’s personal Edgar Brookins, a beloved member of the neighborhood and long-time AFRO circulation and common supervisor, who orchestrated the inaugural D.C. Excessive Tea years in the past.
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“Edgar Brookins was every thing. He was ‘Mr. D.C.,’” mentioned Hocker. “He was very instrumental within the AFRO bringing the tea to the D.C. in 2018.”
This 12 months’s tea will likely be a spotlight of the 2024 social calendar, full with catering from B&B II, nice leisure and naturally, the AFRO Excessive Tea style present, the place contributors showcase their most interesting threads and hats.
Tickets for the 2024 D.C. AFRO Excessive Tea can be found for $100 at afrotix.dwell and the admission value features a free six month subscription to the publication.
