WINNER OF SIX SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS D.C. AWARDS FOR 2022
Vol. 57, No. 51 • October 6 - 12, 2022
ASALH Examines Historical Perspectives of Black Health
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Vice President Harris Announces Slate of Actions to Help Black and Minorityowned Small Businesses Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer
5 Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Freedman Bank Forum hosted by the U.S. Treasury Department on October 6. (Anthony Tilghman/The Washington Informer)
Vice President Kamala Harris used her time at the Freedman’s Bank Forum to announce new public and private-sector efforts to advance racial equity. Harris said the administration recognizes the continued difficulty that Blackowned businesses have in finding funding. She acknowledged that they’re routinely the first to suffer during an economic downturn. Among a slate of new actions by the Biden-Harris administration, the vice president announced that the Small Business Administration (SBA) would propose a rule this fall to expand its lender base by lifting the moratorium on new Small Business Lending Companies. The action would allow new lenders to apply for a license to offer SBAbacked 7(a) small business loans. Also, the Minority Business Development Agency (MDBA) will issue a
Biden, Harris Deliver More Promises to Blacks at CBCF Phoenix Awards Dinner
Maryland Memorial for Victims of D.C. Snipers Serves as Epicenter of ‘Reflection’
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Twenty Years After the Attacks, Gun Violence in U.S. Has Reached Epidemic Proportions Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer October marks the 20th anniversary of the D.C. sniper attacks, which not only claimed 10 lives and had the D.C. metropolitan area under siege, but brought the late Charles Moose to national prominence as Montgomery County, Maryland’s evenkeeled, reassuring police chief.
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5 President Joe Biden was the keynote speaker closing out the Phoenix Awards Dinner for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 51st Annual Legislative Conference ending October 1 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Vice President Kamala Harris walked on stage to greet an audience filled with former congressional colleagues and voters that helped elect her to office and warmly smiled at them. She was invited to give remarks and introduce President Joe Biden, the featured speaker at the Phoenix Awards Dinner, held during the 51st Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference on Oct. 1 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest. Taking advantage of the opportunity to acknowledge the family-like atmosphere, Harris said, “Isn’t it wonderful to be back? Three years and we’re back and in person,” she said, as she reminded the audience of nearly 3,000 attending the black-tie affair that the last in-person CBCF legislative weekend was held in 2019.
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