Myles Walker

The MPD Gets Away With It–Again

On October 23, 2020, Metropolitan Police Department officer Terence Sutton initiated an unauthorized police pursuit that killed Karon Hylton-Brown, a twenty-year-old African American father to an infant. For ten full minutes, Sutton followed Hylton-Brown in an unmarked car at speeds prosecutors called “unreasonable.” Hylton-Brown was riding a rental scooter without a helmet on. The pursuit,

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The National Institutes of Health Decide (Minority) Health Is Overrated

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 uniting the university’s healthcare and

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Fake News: 2 Nice

In an unusual twist of events, the most controversial personality at a John D. Seevers reelection rally was not John D. Seevers himself. This time around—specifically Saturday, October 13 in Atlanta, Georgia—it was Atlanta-bred and internationally-renowned rapper 2 Nice, who gave both a performance and an official endorsement for President Seevers. “I ain’t even gon’

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When Bowser Plays Ball, DC Strikes Out

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 to his selfish, stupid will.

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Donald Trump: A Danger to the DMV

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 having heard of Lesotho), and

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