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The DC Voice Applauds and Recognizes Minority-Owned Businesses That Survived COVID!

Any small business that survived the Covid-19 pandemic should be applauded. Any minority-owned, small business that survived needs to be applauded and acknowledged! The DC Voice would like to salute any small business – particularly minority and Black-owned businesses! It\’s not easy bringing a dream to life. Keeping it a viable business through the ups …

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Celebrating a First – Zaila Avant-garde

On July 8, 2021, Zaila Avant-garde became the first African American in the nearly 100 years of the competition to win the 2021 Scripps National spelling bee champion! Let\’s all take a moment to celebrate her magnificent achievement! Congratulations Zaila!    

The Day Black Wall Street Died – The Tulsa Massacre – The Story of America Part 2

The Black Dispatch, June 10, 1921  \”Dr. Arthur Jackson, ex-president of the State Medical Association, was shot down by a white boy about sixteen or seventeen years old, according to eyewitnesses. He was rushing up from his basement of his home, which was in flames, with his hands in the air. Two loads from a …

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Coming Full Circle – Native American Secretary of the Interior – Deb Haaland

If any culture can make proclamations to \”take their country back\” or decry the impact of being overrun by immigrants – it would be Native Americans. Even that term is a slight to a great nation of peoples who now find themselves partially named after an Italian explorer since America is named after – Amerigo …

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Wards 5, 7, and 8 – DC\’s Most Undeserved but for How Much Longer?

Any conversation about income disparity, affordable housing, food deserts, or high infant mortality usually centers around three wards; 5, 7, and 8. It\’s said with such frequency and flippancy that it belies the true impact to the quarter of a million residents in those 3 wards. That\’s over 35% of DC residents that live in …

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Bloody Sunday – March 7, 1965; We\’re Still Crossing That Bridge

Sunday, March 7th marks fifty-six years to the day when Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), led a group of Civil Rights marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were stopped by 150 Alabama state troopers, sheriffs deputies, and possemen, who …

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International Women\’s Day – #ChooseToChallenge

International Women\’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Groups come together worldwide to celebrate women\’s achievements or rally for women\’s equality. Much like Black History Month – you wonder why there is only an …

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