Although the absence of hourly tweets from the commander in chief is refreshing, Twitter and Facebook set dangerous precedents by blocking President Trump’s accounts. They cited the president’s tweets...
Let’s kick off Black History Month with a scarcely reported fact about our nation’s capital – slavery. The District’s proximity to Maryland and Virginia, both slave states, made it an active and...
Until now, talk of reparations conjured up 40 acres and a mule in my mind. That’s not to say that I don’t understand the gravity of the situation. It does mean that it harkens back to an archaic concept...
School reopening in D.C. is a complicated and controversial topic. That being said, I encourage anyone with school-age children to watch the 4-hour session. However, knowing that if you have a school-age child finding...
In a city, once predominantly Black and continually Black governed, it’s discomforting that race and economic disparities still prevail. Covid has shown that there are still pockets in the city that suffer...
Someone recently sent me an article on a do it yourself (DIY) kit to build a quantum computer. I know exactly what you are thinking. What? I thought the same thing for probably a totally different reason. In the...
When Eugene Goodman diverted a group of insurgents away from an area Vice President, Mike Pence had only vacated moments ago, and seconds away from possible death, a Black person had stood in the breach once again. He...
January 19, 2021 One item stood out amongst tonight’s issue-packed ANC 5E meeting – the COVID-19 vaccine. The distribution of the COVID vaccine may be yet another example of the disparate treatment based on...
The Nation’s Capital is on lockdown. All of the main streets heading into the Capitol Hill area are blockaded with armed National Guard or Metropolitan Police. National Guard is strolling leisurely down the street...
Last week I took advantage of one of the by-products of COVID 19; virtual Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) meetings. I Zoomed or WebEx’d through multiple ANC meetings. It was like standing at a buffet...
John D’Angelo of single-member of district 4c in Ward 4 put it this way. “A couple of weeks ago, America was hitting record-high death totals. A 9/11 every day was the reference I saw widely used. The...
January 6, 2021 As a native Washingtonian, I’ve seen all kinds of protests over the years. None more violent and contentious than the protests against the War in VietNam, arcane protests around the IMF, and more...
As President-elect Joe Biden assembles his cabinet and Donald Trump fights kicking and screaming trying not to exit the stage, the next fight is already being joined. If Trump is the backlash for the first Black...