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Courtesy of U.S. Census Bureau

Black Experience, National

Black Leaders Push for Fair 2020 Census Count

by James Wright Jr. June 19, 2019December 21, 2021

Fred and Renita Hill are co-owners of Gotta Go Now. (WI photo)

Hill’s Gotta Go Now is Moving Forward

by James Wright Jr. June 19, 2019December 21, 2021

D.C. residents are being given a chance to share their thoughts on whether convicted drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III should receive an early release from prison. (Courtesy of NBC Washington)

D.C. Residents Split on Drug Dealer’s Fate

by James Wright Jr. June 19, 2019December 21, 2021

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (WI photo)

Mendelson, DeWitt Caught Up in Budget Battle

by James Wright Jr. June 12, 2019December 21, 2021

Tanya Clay House, LaToia Jones, Lakeila Stemmons, Robert Brandon and Jon Bosworth participate in a voter suppression panel sponsored by the D.C. Democratic State Committee and the Ward 8 Democrats at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School on June 6. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)

Voter Suppression Talk Rises as 2020 Approaches

by James Wright Jr. June 12, 2019December 21, 2021

Jan Desper Peters, executive director of the Black Mental Health Alliance, speaks at the "Can We Talk?" conference and benefit dinner, held at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Northwest Washington over the weekend.

Black Mental Health Discussed at Henson Conference

by James Wright Jr. June 12, 2019December 21, 2021

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

Entrepreneurs Healthier Than Workers, Study Says

by James Wright Jr. June 12, 2019December 21, 2021

D.C. residents are being given a chance to share their thoughts on whether convicted drug kingpin Rayful Edmond III should receive an early release from prison. (Courtesy of NBC Washington)

D.C. Residents Asked to Weigh in on Rayful Edmond’s Fate

by James Wright Jr. June 5, 2019December 21, 2021

Robert White

D.C. Councilman Sponsors Bill to Give Felons the Vote

by James Wright Jr. June 5, 2019December 21, 2021

The DC Black Business Task Force is requesting the District government conduct a disparity study on African-American contracts. (WI file photo)

Black Experience, Local Business

Task Force Questions Racial Disparity in City Contracts

by James Wright Jr. June 5, 2019December 21, 2021