It\’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, yet the evolving nature of the global crisis remains a challenge to public health officials and citizens to this day. At this point, science suggests that the most common measures initiated in response to the pandemic virus—social distancing, hand washing, and widespread mask use—are […]
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Statehood can’t wait any longer. As Mayor Bowser states, “Washingtonians have waited over 200 years for the representation we deserve as American citizens.” As long as D.C. residents go without full access to democracy, Bowser said, “our entire nation is denied those voices and votes.” Eleanor Holmes Norton explains that when D.C. becomes the the 51st state, residents will have voting representation
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Last week we kicked off Black History month with a little-known fact about Slave Markets in DC. We continue this week with a story of one of those enslaved Washingtonians\’ who played a major part in two of the most iconic and historic landmarks in DC. The statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square drew
Someone sent me this photo and I felt compelled to share it with our DC Voice readers. The captions say it all.
Something good is happening in 2021, although the impetus for it — glaring evidence of racial inequality and discrimination — is painful. Finally, reparations are being imagined at various levels of government and in multiple U.S. cities. D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie has proposed a law creating a task force to plan for reparations. McDuffie, quoted
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The DC City Council passed a resolution to honor Officer Eugene Goodman. January 6, 2022, will be recognized as Officer Eugene Goodman Day in the District of Columbia. [gview file=\”https://thedcvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CER24-0009-Introduction.pdf\”]
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It does not take much to see the surface-level differences between the administration of Donald Trump and the still-young administration of President Joe Biden. The Tweeting, fearmongering, propagandizing, and conspiracy inciting of the Trump presidency simply cannot be confused for anything other than what it is. One will not forget which president wrote “When the
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It does not take much to see the surface-level differences between the administration of Donald Trump and the still-young administration of President Joe Biden. The Tweeting, fearmongering, propagandizing, and conspiracy inciting of the Trump presidency simply cannot be confused for anything other than what it is. One will not forget which president wrote “When the
Biden\’s Executive Orders: Not Executive Enough? Read More »
It does not take much to see the surface-level differences between the administration of Donald Trump and the still-young administration of President Joe Biden. The Tweeting, fearmongering, propagandizing, and conspiracy inciting of the Trump presidency simply cannot be confused for anything other than what it is. One will not forget which president wrote “When the
Biden\’s Executive Orders: Not Executive Enough? Read More »
Unless you walk around or go through life with tunnel vision, it\’s obvious that Cities across the states are undergoing gentrification with no stopping in sight. I wrote an article entitled Gentrification During COVID in My Brooklyn Neighborhood. The article focuses on how my neighborhood, like others, is changing due to gentrification. Some feel it\’s
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