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Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 59 No 43...August 8 - 14, 2024
H Street Main Street Showcases Youth’s AI-Generated Art
Initiative 83 Approved with Questions about Ward 8 Signatures
Summer Youth Employment Program Teaches Mindfulness, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship
Opponents Continue to Question the Approval Process
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer As the summer winds down, proponents of the “Ranked Choice Voting and Open the Primary Elections to Independent Voters Act of 2024,” otherwise known as Initiative 83, are setting their sights on District voters who live in Ward 8. Candice Nolde, an advisor to the “Yes on 83” campaign, told The Informer that organizers plan to hit every festival in the coming months, and erect signage and circulate mailers to further drive home the point to Ward 8 voters that ranked-choice voting and open primaries can change the tide in electoral politics. “It’s about being present on the ground,” Nolde said. “The approval of Initiative 83 would mean that a significant number of disenfranchised people would be able to participate. It’s about building consensus around a candi-
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5 Tae’lor Johnson, a student in the dance department at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Northwest, D.C., showcases her piece “Strength and Stillness,” an up-close, black-and-white painting of a Black woman that she developed with AI prompts. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
High school student Siegfried Hinton Wright spent the better part of his summer working on H Street in Northeast. That’s where he channeled his youthful energy through meditation and learned how to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create media. Such experiences led to the creation of two paintings -“Beauty and Sadness” and “Soul of the District.” It also culminated in a business deal that he and his peers -- Noel
Former Football Players Discuss Gun Violence Prevention Locally, Nationwide at White House Meeting
Ward 5 Leaders Remember Joseph L. Bowser
DMV Native Kyle Arrington Says D.C. Families ‘Frustrated,’ ‘Hurt’
I-83 Page 42 5Professional athletes meet with Greg Jackson of White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to discuss solutions for the gun violence epidemic. (Ashleigh Fields/The Washington Informer)
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By Ashleigh Fields WI Contributing Writer
Father of Mayor Bowser Dies on Mayor’s 52nd Birthday
Kyle Arrington, a DMV native, and his fellow former Baltimore Ravens player Anquan Boldin, among others, met with Greg Jackson, director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to discuss the disparate impact
In the weeks leading up to his death, Joseph L. Bowser, father of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, couldn’t help but to fulfill his civic duties. He continued to stay abreast, and even weigh in, on the happenings of the North Michigan Park community where he lived for more than 50
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By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
5D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser with her father, the late Joseph L. Bowser, in 2020. (Courtesy Photo/Facebook, Mayor Muriel Bowser)
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