WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and ranking Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings finally met Wednesday, and in what apparently was an otherwise cordial conference about lowering prescription drug prices, the Maryland representative said he admonished Trump for his “hurtful,” and “insulting” statements about African-American communities. Courtesy photo: Maryland Congressman Elijah Trump admonished President Donald Trump during meeting […]
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Black Women Change Wildest Dreams into Reality
Stephanie Wilson and Joan Higginbotham, two Black women who dared to dream the impossible. One reached for the stars, the other was exceptional at math. Nevertheless, both reached, what seems, the ultimate height – making their dreams reality. As a young girl growing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a small town of 44,000 and 130 miles west […]
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Blacks, Minorities Largely Absent During Inauguration
WASHINGTON – African Americans, Hispanics, in fact most people of color, were a rarity at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The lack of participation by America’s black and other minority communities was stark to viewers on television and on the ground. The makeup of the audience, as well as those on the main stage were in stark […]
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Virginia Ex-Felon Joins Others to Vote for First Time
Every Election Day for nearly 30 years, people have told Terry Garrett, that she couldn’t vote. Garrett was convicted of a felony for shoplifting at 18 years old and was stripped of her right to decide which people governed her community, her state and her nation. On the cold crisp morning of Nov. 8, Garrett, […]
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Election Day Holds Long Voting Lines in Penn.
The lines to vote in Pennsylvania, a battleground state for the presidential election, are so long that Henry Nicholas, president of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, was late to lead his own town hall voter rally. It took him an hour to vote, he said. Beulah Robinson waits in a line […]
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D.C., Nation Head to Polls, Early
Holly Gerberich, owner of a Washington advertising agency, jetted into the voting booths early at Malcolm X Elementary School in southeast Washington. Gerberich, founder of Gerberich Growth Strategies, wanted to make sure she cast her vote and wasn’t going to let anything get in the way. “I came to vote early for convenience,” she said. […]
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17-Year-Old Coolidge High Student Fatally Stabbed on Metro Bus
17-year-old Kaelia Minor was killed after being stabbed by 18-year-old Kyla Jones following an altercation on a Metro Bus. Howard University News Service talked to Coolidge High School students where Minor was a senior.
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Gentrification Pushing Black Churches Out of D.C.
Long-standing Black churches are disappearing from the nation’s capital one at a time, the culprit – residential only parking. As the city’s new, mostly White residents push for special neighborhood parking, they are inadvertently forcing churches out of the District of Columbia, city officials and church members said. On K Street in Washington’s southeast neighborhood, […]
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Moviegoers Laugh and Applaud. But It’s Not a Film
WASHINGTON – Inside one of the theaters at the Regal Cinema movie complex in Washington’s Gallery Place/Chinatown, the audience of mostly millennial’s sat in one of the darkened theaters and laughed loudly at the dialogue and pictures on the big screen. But it wasn’t a film that had the audience chuckling. It was the presidential debate. […]
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Presidential Debate Leaves Viewers Uneasy and Unmoved
HUNS – A watch party for the first presidential debate of 2016 in Busboys and Poets, filled with Democrat Hillary Clinton supporters, gave her televised clash of ideas with Republican nominee Donald Trump the feel of a boisterous Super Bowl party. Viewers jeered the opposing team, in this case Trump, applauded Clinton’s zingers and rebuttals and […]
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D.C.’s Petworth Community Hosts A Fun Day to Promote Unity, Solve Problems
David Sheon says it’s a new day for the Petworth Community. These days, the member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) Ward 4D said he and his colleagues are more focused on people than on the trappings of office. “We get $12,000 a year from the city, and the old ANC spent a lot of that […]
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The Realities of Gentrification in the “Chocolate City”
WASHINGTON – On a recent hot Friday morning, Uprising Muffin Company, the new Black-owned coffee shop on 7th Street next to the Shaw Howard Metro stop, is humming. The store, structured on the Starbucks model but with muffins at its core, is doing a brisk business as Shaw residents wander in with laptops and commuters from the […]