Black Power is Black Votes
“Black power is black votes, if we want to stay in our neighborhoods we must vote,” says Mrs. Stancil, a 92-year old Elder and...
D.C. Witness’ Response to Councilman White’s State of Emergency Declaration
With homicides in Washington DC starting the year 2021 with a pace that has already exceeded last year’s total during the same timeframe, Councilmember...
Give Us Statehood Now!
I watched the final vote in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump with a mixture of frustration and anger. The frustration was that...
Insurrection Overshadowed A Historic Day in Georgia
January 6, 2021 was a shameful day in U.S. history with the pro-Trump invasion and desecration of the Capitol. Because of that disgraceful incident,...
DC Voters Want One Fair Wage and DC Council Should Too
At the end of June, DC residents voted for tipped workers to be paid one fair wage. Initiative 77, approved by 56 percent of...
Gap Years and the Class of 2020
As a college and gap year counselor, I always get excited when high school students ask me about the possibility of taking time off...
Happy Birthday, Deanwood!
This year's Deanwood Day celebration will take place on May 21, 2022, at IDEA PCS located at 1027 45th St. NE. And Deanwood is...
Why Statehood?
Since the founding of the District of Columbia in 1790, the rights of the residents within the District have changed over time. The twenty-third...
Let’s Build on DC’s Progress in 2019
As we collectively utter, “I can’t believe this year is almost over,” it’s worth looking back at all that happened and start to think...
DC’s Black and Brown Students Face Perilous School Year
Our country is confronting dual cataclysms: one the global pandemic now afflicting millions and one a long-overdue reckoning of the centuries-old scourge of racism....
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