CultureWhat to know | Storm Wrecks the Stage the Night Before, But AfroPlus Fest Still Gives the Afro Diaspora a Home in DC
The key details: The night before doors opened, a storm tore the stage apart. AfroPlus Fest went on anyway. Now in its second year, North America's biggest Afro-Caribbean hip-hop festival pulled crowds from Ghana, Jamaica, London, and Baltimore into Washington DC, where music became the thing that reconnected everyone to their roots.