Babatunde Oloyede is the president of the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization and owns a District business. (WI photo)
**FILE** Babatunde Oloyede is the president of the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization. (WI photo)

The Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, based in Northeast, will hold a business networking breakfast, “The Power of the Purse,” on May 25 from 9-11:30 a.m.

Speakers for the event include Kristi Whitfield, director of the D.C. Department of Small and Local Business Development; Justina Wilkins, owner of Justina’s Hair Gallery; Ayanna Howard of the Earl Howard Studio; Latoya Liles-Walker, owner of Tsunami Hair Studio; Jhavon Khasif of Nailbad & Bar; and Rahama Wright of Yeleen Beauty. Steve Glaude of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development.

D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (I-At Large) will serve as a guest speaker. 

For more information, call 202-396-1200.

James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the Washington Informer Newspaper. He has worked for the Washington AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The Washington...

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