One of the year’s most contentious debates in the District seemed to be settled on August 1, when the DC Council approved the landmark deal to bring back Washington football. In a 9-3 vote, the Council gave the green light to the $3.7 billion deal that would redevelop the defunct RFK Stadium to once 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,
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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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 in America today), represents the
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 put an end to the
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.
This month I attended World Pride in DC with my friends. Growing up in a more conservative town, identifying as bisexual was never something I felt comfortable boasting about. But since starting college in D.C. (which according to the William Institute, has the highest percentage of LGBTQ adults than all 50 states), I haven’t just
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
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 citizens of Washington, DC. But
In the world of sports, greatness has been known to attract hostility. The more talented an athlete is, the larger the target on their back. The potency of this phenomenon tends to grow the more anomalous an athlete’s success is, such as in cases of Black athletes excelling in historically white-dominated sports. The Williams sisters
