A cultural celebration of Black joy and visibility returns to the nation’s capital on Sunday, Oct. 19, as Nationals Park in Southeast gears up to host the city’s third annual Black on the Block .

Now in partnership with Live Nation Urban , the highly-anticipated festival will feature food, music, giveaways, and more than 80 Black-owned businesses, promising a family-friendly event where the vendors are the headliners and the Black dollar is the bottomline, according to sisters and co-founders Char and Lanie Edwards.

“Circulating the Black dollar is what we can control – we have so much buying power…you could see the impact that we have,” Lanie Edwards, 30, told The Informer. “It’s really important for us to make sure that everything Black on the Block does, the vendors are at the for

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