The Supreme Court on June 28 struck down Chicago, Ill.’s strict anti-handgun legislation, but D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said the decision in fact sanctions Washington D.C.’s new and revised gun laws, created after the same court struck down the city’s more restrictive gun ban two years ago. The nation’s highest court struck down a […]
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D.C. Woman Withdraws Suit over Church’s Gay Marriage Ceremony– But Quits Church
After Yvonne Moore, a member of Covenant Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., sat through a same sex commitment ceremony in her church in 2007, she was angry. First, she filed a lawsuit. Then she left the congregation she has been a part of for nearly 40 years. “Why did I do it?” Moore said during […]
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HUD Grants $30 Million to 29 U.S. HIV-AIDS Housing Programs
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded $30.2 million to 29 HIV/AIDS housing programs across the nation, which it said would allow more than 1,000 low-income citizens living with the virus to maintain permanent housing. Over the next three years, the funds will also help provide permanent support for over 1,232 households, […]
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Leading Civil Rights Attorney, Activist William Taylor Dies
Civil rights attorney William Taylor, an avid supporter of education and social equality, died June 28 in Bethesda, Md. He was 78. Taylor’s career, which spanned more than four decades, began in 1954 when he worked as a lawyer on the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund. NAACP President Todd Benjamin Jealous labeled the attorney […]
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U.S. Government Accepting Help from Foreign Sources to Clean Up Oil Spill
The United States government is accepting offers of assistance from countries around the world to help contain a runaway, deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico and clean up the spill which has pumped oil into the gulf for more than two months. “The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries […]
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Local Student Rises to the Top of Class
Eric Charles Stewart Jr. recently graduated from Cross Country Elementary-Middle School, where he was the class valedictorian and received nine awards for academic excellence. Nearly half of Eric’s class was African American and 25 percent of the class will attend a magnet or academic high school in the fall.
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Baltimorean Receives ‘Ray of Hope’ Award
In a press release, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) announced Darryl A. Stokes, vice president of engineering and standards for BGE, as the 2010 recipient of the Ray of Hope award, which recognizes the academic and professional achievements of Black males. The award is presented annually on Father’s Day weekend by Black Professional Men […]
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Y of Central Maryland Seeks Volunteers
To better serve the community, particularly local youths, the Y of Central Maryland is seeking volunteers willing to serve as mentors. Y mentors work with children between the ages of 6 and 18 who have been identified as “at risk” and in need of additional adult support in their lives. According to a press release […]
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MSU Student Receives James H. Ashby Jr. Award of Excellence
Temitope Owoeye is the recent recipient of the James H. Ashby Jr. Award of Excellence, an award established this year in memory of James (Jim) Hubert Ashby Jr., a devoted husband, father, brother, son and friend who died suddenly on Nov. 27, 2009, in Randallstown, Md.? Jim received his early education in the public and […]
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Morgan State Professor’s Historic Graduation from Pa. School
Dr. An’Nita C. Moore of Baltimore recently completed her final oral doctoral defense at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Moore is the first African American to graduate from Drexel’s doctorate of nursing practices program. She is currently an assistant professor at Morgan State University.
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Council Approves New Teacher Contract
Even though City Council Chairman Vincent Gray lavished praise on the architects of the landmark teachers union contract, he acknowledged that inequities exist and that those who have been impacted have looked to the Council for assistance. In comments to the media, Gray expressed relief that the controversial contract, approved unanimously this week by the […]
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Fenty a No-Show at Education Debate
Mayor Adrian Fenty was a no-show at the highly anticipated June 28 debate that was slated to focus on the state of the city’s troubled public schools system. According to the District of Columbia Chapter of Young Education Professionals, which sponsored the “Great Education Forum,” Fenty was expected to spar with his chief opponent in […]