PHOTO: Actor and award-winning humanitarian Jesse Williams/ Courtesy КАК Я НАШЕЛ СВОЙ БИЗНЕС У СЕБЯ ДОМА By now, most, if not all of the African world has watched or heard about Jesse Williams’ five-minute oratorical masterpiece at the BET Awards earlier this week. Upon accepting the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award, Williams, a Black actor who rarely minces […]
Community College Preparatory Academy, the only adult charter school in the United States, gives adults of all ages living east of the Anacostia River an opportunity to attain their high school diploma and prepare for college-level work see here. Connie Spinner, founding executive director, launched the program after seeing students struggle at the University of […]
#OurLivesMatter: One Year Later By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinskahovka-service.ru If there’s any doubt that District youth want to quell violence in their community and boost civic engagement among their peers, young people at a local recreation center are slowly but surely laying those concerns to rest, all the while sharpening […]
Police Union Contracts: The Ultimate Get-out-of-Jail Free Card By Sam P.K. CollinsКрышки The 2014 state-sanctioned murder of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald, like other shootings of its kind across the country, revealed the lengths that city and state political leaders will go to absolve police officers of any responsibility in the callous execution of black people. […]
Black College Students Show the Power of Unity By Sam P.K. Collins Founder and Host of AllEyesOnDC.com @SamPKCollinsinfolio-rg.ru If there has been any doubt about the power of grassroots organizing, a recent gathering at Howard University (HU) ’s Blackburn Center, has, to some degree, given some hope to the disillusioned. For much of the day […]
TMCT Martin Luther King, Jr. Panel Recap veroxybd.comragrani.ru By Sam P.K. Collins As much of Black America enters a new era of political and social consciousness, no bastion of white supremacy is safe, including that which paints the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a passive integrationist and unwavering friend of the establishment. Amid […]
TMCT Black History Month Panel Recap By Sam P.K. Collinstrevordiy.wordpress.comvisualcage.ru In African spiritual systems, people often uphold the memories of their ancestors and honor their achievements through storytelling and prayer. In doing so, they gain a deeper understanding of their history and grow empowered to carry on their forefathers’ and foremothers’ work the best way […]
Washington Bar Association Honors Judge Eric Christian Esteemed Jurist Receives the Ollie Mae Cooper Award By Barrington M. Salmon A packed auditorium of family, friends, colleagues and admirers celebrated with DC Superior Court of Appeals Chief Judge Eric T. Christian recently as he received the Washington Bar Association’s prestigious Ollie Mae Cooper Award. The award […]