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Getting Back into The Swing of Things: Free Back-to-School Events in the DMV

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It’s that time of year that parents love and kids dread: back-to-school. As summer winds down and the school year peaks its head around the corner, families across the district prepare to send their babies back. Picking the back-to-school outfit, buying supplies, scrambling to finish that summer packet – if your child knows where it […]

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Book Review: The Bluest Eye and its Haunting Similarities to Beauty Standards Today

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What is beauty? How do we, as a culture, define what’s beautiful? How does the dominant culture impact beauty standards? Toni Morrison explores these questions of beauty in her haunting and timeless novel, The Bluest Eye. In it, the prolific writer and Howard alum draws tells the story of a young Black girl named Pecola

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Embrace the Third Place: How to Make the Most Out of Your Summer at Your Local Union Market

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In a declining economy, and a tumultuous social and political climate, there’s a lot of discourse on what people need to build healthy communities. The idea of a Third Place was introduced by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, and is defined as “a space for informal, free social interaction, essential to democracy.” He argued that people must

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