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Dr. Charity Oyedeji is a board-certified hematologist—that is, a doctor specializing in the study of blood and blood disorders—and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Oyedeji is the recipient of multiple research grants and co-author of more than 35 peer-reviewed publications. Her employers at Duke Health, the umbrella organization...

At the time of the 1970 United States Census, African Americans made up 71.1% of Washington, DC’s population. This was the most lopsided the city’s racial demographics had (and have) been since it was 72.7% white during the 1930 census. This enormous figure, 71.1% (which would be the fourth-blackest city...

Following Joe Biden’s decision to not seek re-election in 2024 and the resulting chain of events, liberal voters and commentators were torn on how to feel about them. Some felt that after Kamala Harris was chosen to run in Biden’s stead, that the younger, quicker, sharper vice president would finally...

The unprecedentedly undemocratic presidency of Donald Trump is threatening to hit a new autocratic, dystopian low, and Washington, DC has unfortunately found itself squarely in his crosshairs. For months, Trump and his congressional cronies have been hellbent on scaling back the District’s autonomy and forcing its local government to bend...

President Donald Trump, who doubles as the self-proclaimed “least racist person anywhere in the world” and the self-proclaimed “best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln,” is inarguably anti-Black. He has refused to condemn white supremacy, pushed baseless, racist conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa (while never...

Nothing you will read in the following words, sentences, and paragraphs will be revolutionary. Nothing will be groundbreaking, trailblazing, or even yet to be heard. The content of this polemic will be merely the latest in a vast corpus of critiques of the federal government’s treatment of the city and...