WASHINGTON — When Miss America 2010 talks about HIV and AIDS, it’s not just something she read about in a book or heard in an infomercial. For Caressa Cameron, it’s personal. At 8, when most girls her age were preoccupied with Barbie dolls and jump rope, she was watching her uncle die from AIDS in […]
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Gray: ‘City Has to Establish Budget Priorities’
Spending in the District government has not focused on priorities, and, as a result, it could take years before an economic rebound fully occurs, said Mayor-elect Vincent Gray. Until then, he added, the city has to grapple with a multimillion-dollar hole in its operating budget that threatens a rise in taxes and cuts in programs […]
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Black Student Publication at GWU Awarded Grant
ACE MAGAZINE, the Black student publication at George Washington University, has received a $1,000 grant from Campus Progress, a nonprofit youth outreach arm of the Center for American Progress. According to a release announcing the grant, the entirely student- produced magazine, which is in its third year of operation, was founded as part of the […]
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Capital Area Asset Builders Partner with Links
As Americans enter the Thanksgiving season, some District-based organizations are trying to help local citizens weather the economic storm still playing out. Area residents can pay off debts, save money, fund education, buy homes and start new businesses with assistance from the Capital Area Asset Builders (CAAB). Offered twice a week at CAAB’s home office […]
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George Washington U. School of Business Partners with Black MBAs
The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) MBA Admissions and the National Black MBA Association, Washington, D.C. Chapter, have partnered to offer a full or partial scholarship for a full-time MBA student to attend the GW School of Business. The scholarship will be awarded to a qualified student who is admitted to the full-time […]
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Barry Movie Set for DVD Release
The biopic, “The Nine Lives of Marion Barry,” is set for release Dec. 7 on DVD. According to the film’s distributor, Indiepix, the highly acclaimed movie also be available on iTunes, Amazon.com and most major retailers. Barry currently represents Ward 8 in Southeast Washington where he’s often lauded as a folk hero. He has also […]
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Economy Subdues Holiday Spirit
Cool temperatures and fiery-colored leaves; carved pumpkins and trussed-up turkeys; harried gift shopping and hurried cross-country trips; mounds of food and stacks of gaily-wrapped presents—that’s what the end-of-year holiday season in the United States is usually made of. But not so much this year, many across the Baltimore-Washington metro area and beyond are reporting. With […]
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Local Politicians, Stars Face Off in Fundraising Tennis Match
Local politicians, including former Mayors Marion Barry and Anthony Williams, Mayor-elect Vincent Gray, Chairman for the Committee on Libraries, Parks and Recreation and Ward 5 Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander and At-Large Councilman Kwame Brown, joined tennis celebrity Zina Garrison, area youth and their families for the 12th Annual Heart to […]
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‘Warrior’ Against Violence Targets Youth in Troubled Communities
Gregory Baldwin is a man on a mission. He wants to save Black boys from a lifetime of oppression, low self-esteem and street violence. Baldwin also endeavors to keep sharing the story of how he turned his own life around after it hung in limbo. Some 20 years ago, Baldwin, now 46, was shot 10 […]
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Legal Marijuana-like Substance Faces Harsh Scrutiny
“Got any K2?” Nouri Moore, 19, asked, approaching the counter of an Asian-owned convenience store in northeast Washington, D.C. A cashier at the Northeast Market located on the 1300 block of Mount Olivet Road, N.E., came to the counter, where a large basket sat, displaying the rainbow packages of the legal drug like candy. “How […]
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District’s Black Residents Remain Hard Pressed to Find Jobs
With the city’s 10 percent unemployment rate likened to a ticking time bomb, things can’t get much worse as 30,000 residents search for work. So when Mayor-elect Vincent Gray assumes the helm in January, one of the first objectives aligned with his economic development plan will be to help quell the District’s burgeoning unemployment problem. […]
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Wilson’s Restaurant Survives Gentrification
Before integration, Black-owned businesses flourished in African-American communities and were considered one of the strongest pillars of African-American culture. But with the benefits of integration also came the declining desire among African Americans to support Black-owned establishments, believing that Whites and other ethnic groups could deliver better products, goods and services. Several generations later, Black […]