Politicians, organizations and residents gathered in Southeast D.C. to march in the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk and Parade Jan. 18. (Photo by Shantella Sherman) The 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Walk and Parade Jan. 18 took place on the District street that bears his name. Thousands of people stood on the […]
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Planned Parenthood Battle Leaves Women Vulnerable
Attempts at undermining preventive healthcare have turned into a bitter fight. (Courtesy Image/Logo) Attempts at undermining preventive healthcare by Republicans opposed to President Barack Obama’s universal healthcare and Planned Parenthood have turned into a bitter fight with the nation’s most vulnerable in the middle. The recent attempt to defund Planned Parenthood just days before Christmas […]
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D.C.’s Surveillance Progam Moves Forward
Mayor Bowser signed a bill to provide rebates for security camera systems on the exterior of certain buildings. (Courtesy photo) Following recent legislation, D.C. residents can expect to see an increase in surveillance cameras on businesses, non-profits, religious institutions and homes. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Private Security Camera System Incentive Program Emergency Act of […]
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Baltimore Homeless Shelter Holds Youths Close
Danny Jones says that Loving Arms Shelter helped put him on the right track. (Photos credit: Facebook/Danny Jones) Danny “Virgo” Jones lived homeless in Baltimore for nine years. Ever since he was eight years old, his family has been homeless. At 15, he struck out on his own and found a home at Loving Arms. […]
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Walmart Pulls Out of Southeast D.C. Leaving Anger in its Wake
Walmart decided against building stores in Southeast D.C., causing a major ripple in several development deals in areas in desperate need of revitalization. Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was livid while discussing the recent economic pullout of Walmart from several signed leases to build new stores east of the river. He described it as Walmart’s […]
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D.C. Resident Geraldine McCrae Turns 100
D.C. resident Geraldine McCrae turned 100 on Jan. 15. (Photo by Valerie Russell) Family and friends gathered at Martin’s Camelot in Upper Marlboro, Maryland Jan. 16 to celebrate the life and accomplishments of longtime D.C. resident, Geraldine McCrae who turned 100-years-old. McCrae was born in Guyana, South America on Jan, 15, 1916. By the age […]
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Looking Back on D.C. Mayor Bowser’s First Year
Muriel Bowser takes the oath of office Jan. 2, 2015 while family members watch. (Photo by Rob Roberts) D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) released her first annual Accountability Report Jan. 11. The “Bowser Administration Transition Plan Accountability Report Year One Update,” addresses nine major topics that effect D.C., including arts, education, transportation, good government […]
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Organization Tries to Bring Baltimore’s Penn and North Back from Brink
Maria Thompson, President of Coppin State University, was on hand to announce the Coppin’s Science and Technology Center. (Courtesy photo) Last April, the CVS standing atop the MTA metro Station at Penn North Plaza became a nationally televised symbol of Baltimore’s chaotic unrest in the wake of Freddie Gray’s detainment by Baltimore police and subsequent […]
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Report: Black Women UnderRepresented in Public Office
D.C. Council member Anita Bonds thinks that more Black women should seek political office. (Twitter Photo) Despite the high-profile of Black women office holders like D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D) and U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Black women hold few elected positions, particularly in statewide offices, according to a December […]
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Judge Won’t Force Officer to Testify in Trial for 3 Officers in Gray Case
Officer William Porter, right, arrives at Courthouse East with his attorneys Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Baltimore. Circuit Judge Barry Williams is holding a motions hearing Wednesday ahead of the trial for Caesar Goodson, who drove the police transport van where Freddie Gray was critically injured. Prosecutors want Porter, whose trial ended in a mistrial […]
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St. Paul Officer Apologizes for Facebook Post on MLK Protesters
A St. Paul police officer is apologizing for a post he made on Facebook urging drivers to run over protesters who rallied against the police killings of two black men in the Twin Cities last year. Protesters huddle on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. […]
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Murder Rate Desensitizing D.C. Youth
Deontray Ingram, 22, was one of D.C.’s 162 homicides in 2015. His death is one of many that leaves community members concerned about the youth’s lack of sensitivity to violence. “It is very much appropriated now, and they are always fighting,” Fehema Johnson, 22, told the AFRO Jan. 16. She is on staff at John Tyler […]
