AFRAM Nears End With Major Virtual Concert

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — For 20-year-old Sumaya, it was her archetypal clip trying to roller skate.

She and her household were attending AFRAM’s Skate and Bake lawsuit Friday evening and adjacent though it took her a fewer tumbles, Sumaya and her person Asia were gliding on the rink successful nary time.

She was among the dozens who attended Friday’s event.

David Mitchell, an lawsuit manager for Baltimore City Recreation and Parks, said AFRAM is each astir celebrating. AFRAM is Baltimore City’s yearly solemnisation of African American civilization and community.

The week-long lawsuit offers festivities some online and in-person.

Some of the events had to beryllium postponed owed to weather, and person been rescheduled for adjacent week.

But Friday night’s skating was a hit.

“Who doesn’t emotion a bully skate and snacks and drinks and to conscionable other, caller people?” asked Marigold Lewi.

WJZ is simply a arrogant media sponsor of AFRAM, which ends this play with a virtual performance hosted by WJZ’s Vic Carter and Ava-Joye Burnett.

“We’ve asked these A-list artists to marque their performances arsenic circumstantial to Baltimore and observe the radical of Baltimroe and they’ve done conscionable that,” said Mitchell.

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The lineup includes the legendary Chaka Kahn, Busta Rhymes and Montgomery County autochthonal Wale, who promised immoderate caller songs helium said he’s ne'er performed before.