Today, Mayor Vincent Gray and other city politicians broke ground on what will become the Chuck Brown Memorial Park. “Chuck Brown was instrumental in developing a distinctive 20th-century American ...

Want to celebrate the life of D.C. musical institution Chuck Brown? Here’s where you’ll go-go. (Sorry.) The District has released the best renderings yet of the planned Chuck Brown Memorial Park, in ...

WASHINGTON — Chuck Brown Day, the annual celebration of D.C.'s Godfather of Go-Go music, is bustin' loose and leaving the park which bares his name. The ninth annual party marking Brown's birthday is ...

The “Wind Me Up, Chuck” installation, the artist says in a release, will serve as a park-within-a-park. Two artists and a team were selected as finalists for the project by the D.C. Commission on the ...

WASHINGTON — D.C. residents gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of go-go icon Chuck Brown at the District's eighth annual festival dedicated to the legend and his music. Chuck Brown Day, a free ...

“Hold up!” DJ Kool shouted from the stage. “Wait a minute!” the crowd responded at Chuck Brown Memorial Park, in the signature call-and-response fashion of go-go swing. David Jordan, 53, of Northwest ...

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 ...