RECIPIENT OF THE DC BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION 2023 LEGACY AWARD
Oversight Round Table Delves into Violence Interruption Grant Management
Serving Our Community in the DMV
Vol 60 No 1...October 17-23, 2024
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5 Pastor Delonte Gholston counted among dozens of public witnesses who flooded Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building in Northwest during an oversight round table intended to examine the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement’s management of violence intervention grants. (WI File Photo)
The Washington Informer at 60: ‘If It is to Be, It is Up to Me’ By James Wright WI Staff Writer
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
D.C. Councilmember Trayon White’s federal bribery indictment inspired, and even exacerbated, critique and scrutiny of the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) from all directions over the last couple of months. However, members of the violence prevention community who recently testified before the D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety had just as much to say about
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5Dr. Calvin Rolark, founder and first publisher of The Washington Informer, with his daughter Denise Rolark Barnes, current publisher of the newspaper. (WI File Photo)
Howard Homecoming Creates Community, Celebrates Black Excellence, Fosters Next Generation of African American Leaders
Maurice Fitzgerald was looking through some old papers in his Prince George’s County home recently and came across a program celebrating the 50 th anniversary of The Washington Informer. “I looked at the program and I saw pictures of Roy Lewis, Victor Holt and Khalid Naji-Allah, all great photographers of The Washington Informer,” said Fitzgerald, 69, who was a freelance photographer for the District newspaper. “I said to myself ‘this is really cool.’ The Washington Informer has come a long way and survived a lot.” The Washington Informer, founded by Dr. Calvin Rolark on October 16, 1964 as a weekly print newspaper, is celebrating 60 years of publishing news across multiple platforms. The focus of The Informer is providing positive news of the Black community, something that was often missing from other publications, whether white or Black owned, a point Rolark often stressed.
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Five Black Women ANC Candidates Form a Slate Goals Include Unity, Saving Black Majority in Ward 8 By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
Centennial Celebration Exemplifies Legacy, Imprint of Illustrious Institution
Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Robin McKinney officially launched her re-election bid in August, taking pride in the economic activity in Downtown Anacostia that she said she and the other Black women commissioners of ANC 8A By Jada Ingleton encouraged – and even facilitated – in collabWI Digital Equity Fellow 5Howard University’s 100th homecoming celebration conoration with the Anacostia Business Improvement tinues through Oct. 20, exemplifying the institution’s cultural With the general election looming, racial contributions and legacy, and highlighting the week of program- District. McKinney told The Informer that, if re-elected, disparities, and a divided nation, homecoming, ming as a place for African Americans to reflect, collaborate particularly at historically Black colleges and and foster the next generation of Black leaders. (WI File Photo/ she wants to maintain that spirit of collaboration,
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Celebrating 60 years. Your credible and trusted source for Black news and information.
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