By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com On April 16, 1862, eight months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved Blacks were freed in the District of Columbia, and 157 years later, Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Office of Cable, Television, Film, Music and Entertainment (OCTFME) is keeping that history and celebratory moment alive with weeklong festivities […]
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READY Center Pools Resources for Returning Citizens in Order to Lower Recidivism Rates
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer The READY Center, 1901 E Street S.E., the new facility created to help returning citizens receive access to a multitude of services, is a quiet nondescript building just behind the treatment facility. But what the outside lacks in architectural pizzaz is surface. What it holds inside is the important […]
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Mayor Bowser Engages Senior Community
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Mayor Muriel Bowser held a special town hall event for seniors this week as part of a series of Budget Engagement Forums for District residents throughout the month of February. Bowser, senior staff and members of the Bernice Fonteneau Senior Wellness Center were all present at the John A. […]
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DCYD New Executive Committee Calls for Northam’s Resignation
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com After celebrating the new Executive Committee for D.C. Young Democrats (DCYD) Thursday evening, on Friday the fresh team woke up to controversy surrounding Governor Ralph Northam’s (D-VA) racist yearbook pictures, and launched them into action to address the leader of the District’s neighboring state. Newly elected Executive Committee members […]
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Workers and Legislators Unite to Help Low-Wage Contract Employees
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer A little over a month ago Faye Smith found herself in the Senate Office Building protesting and searching for Senator Mitch McConnell in order to impress upon him how the federal shutdown was impacting her life. Now with the shutdown officially over, and another one looming, Smith is back […]
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Grosso Hopes To Reduce Opioid Related Deaths with New Marijuana Legislation
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer Council member David Grosso (D- At-large) presented legislation that would give D.C. residents more access to the District’s medical marijuana program. This effort is one of many measures to reduce opioid-related deaths. “We are all concerned with the ongoing tragedy of D.C. residents dying from opioid overdoses and this […]
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D.C. Council Overrides Bowser’s Veto of Fare Evasion Decriminalization
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com When Mayor Muriel Bowser used her power for a rare veto of a bill that would decriminalize metro fare evasion, much of the D.C. Council and local advocacy organizations spoke out against her decision. So when the District of Columbia Council voted 11-2 to override the veto last week, organizations […]
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Bowser Pushed for Emergency Legislation for Unemployment Benefits and SNAP
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer As the country enters its second month of a financially crippling federal government shutdown, on Tuesday Mayor Muriel Bowser announced plans for legislation that would offer some relief to D.C. residents who were impacted. That relief comes in two ways. One would be an emergency bill to allow federal […]
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Bowser’s Veto of Fare Evasion Decriminalization Brings Wrath of Council Members and Advocates
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day more than 46 organizations publicly admonished Mayor Bowser’s veto of the {Fare Evasion Decriminalization Bill}, joining Council member Robert C. White, Jr. who released a blunt statement criticizing the move last week. The letter by local organizations was addressed to D.C. Council members […]
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Black Furloughed Workers Share Grievances at DMV Town Hall
By Micha Green AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com The government shutdown has been going on over a month and furloughed workers are hurting. “It hurts physically and it hurts mentally,” said Tyra McClelland a member of the Local 727 union of the American Federation of Government Employees. On the 31st day of the partial government […]
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Grosso Pushes Marijuana Legislation with Democratic House in Session
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer District of Columbia Council Member David Grosso pushed a revised version of his Marijuana Legalization and Regulation Act, a bill that could surge through with a Democratic House of Representatives firmly planted in Congress, officials said. “Since D.C. voters approved initiative 71 to decriminalize recreational marijuana we have seen […]
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District Wide Policy on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking
By George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer January marks the 15th annual National Stalking Awareness Month, but D.C.has been ahead of the pack with a District wide policy on Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking released at the beginning of the year. “With this policy, we are talking another step to ensure that D.C. Government is […]
