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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D) apologized Tuesday for causing “great embarrassment to the city and City Council” for improperly awarding a city contract to a woman he had been dating. Barry’s apology comes a week after lawyer Robert S. Bennett concluded in a report to the council that the former […]
Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary and Donnie McClurkin are back for the third season of “Sunday Best.” The auditions began December 2009 in Nigeria now, the Judges have returned to the United States with three casting calls. The first took place in Detroit. Now the Sunday Best team are making there way across the country so, […]
Last week I talked about how interracial dating can go wrong by citing a certain website that is designed exclusively for those desiring only interracial relationships.
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has fired ten DCPS teachers for administering corporal punishment and two for sexual misconduct since July 2007, according to a report she has submitted to D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray. Another 28 served suspensions ranging from two to ten days for some form of corporal punishment, […]
VIA DC EXAMINER: Admidst news of derailments, computer glitches, fire and other life-threatening situations cropping up on Metro trains, the transportation agency has announced on their website that they will be raising their fare beginning next week. Fares on Metrorail, Metrobus and MetroAccess will increase 10 cents, effective Sunday, February 28, through June 26. Fare […]
BOWIE, Md. – A Maryland high school student has died. Police tell FOX 5 that a 16-year-old Bowie High School student was running laps after school when he collapsed on the basketball court. According to police, the boy collapsed and died while taking part in a basketball practice at about 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon in […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Somewhere between the produce aisles and Giant’s every-day-fresh bakery, the Rev. Anita Naves is working up a sweat. She is holding a somewhat surprised shopper’s hand, anointing his forehead with oil and crying out for the Holy Spirit to enter the man’s life and drive out all worry and doubt. Nearby, […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: An educator at a state-run juvenile detention center in Prince George’s County was found dead on the facility’s grounds Thursday, and her death is being investigated as a homicide, police said. Maryland State Police identified the woman as Hannah E. Wheeling, 65, of the 200 block of Portland Place in Bel […]
The White House and the Department of Education have announced a new Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge and are inviting public schools across the country to compete to have President Obama speak at their graduation. At the beginning of the school year, the President encouraged students across the country to take responsibility […]
(Washington, DC) — An 80-year-old foster care program run by the Archdiocese of Washington, DC has come to an end. This is the first action taken by the church, which has been embroiled in a dispute with the city over the wording of a law legalizing same-sex marriage. The “Washington Post” says Catholic Charities’ foster-care […]