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Celebrating 58 Years - Vol. 58, No. 7 • December 1-7, 2022
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D.C. Entrepreneurs Embrace Small Business Saturday James Wright WI Staff Writer
District entrepreneurs took advantage of Small Business Saturday on Nov. 26 to show off their wares to new potential customers and to encourage residents and city leaders to support local businesses. “I am really a supporter of Small Business Saturday,” said Amira Hikim, the owner of KittybyAmira, a high-end clothing concession that has become a part of the Southeast Washington’s Eastern Market neighborhood’s marketplace. “Customers are coming to my tent to make purchases. Small Business Saturday is a good way to get new business and new customers. This is a time for small businesses to get together and compete with the bigger chain stores for customers. This is a day just for us.” Hikim, who has sold her wares at the Eastern Market marketplace for about 25 years, joined tens of thousands of small
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5 Holiday decorations at the White House this year embodied the theme “We the People.” The décor in each of the rooms represent what brings people together. White House Christmas Tours 2022 can be booked on-line at whitehouse.gov. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer). See additional photos on Page 37.
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Amid Violence, Parents and Business Owners Demand Stronger Safe Passage Program Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer As youth continue to succumb to gun violence, parents and community advocates across the District have expressed a need for a more robust, interconnected Safe Passage program that addresses the perils that schoolchildren face on their daily commutes. Even though workers with dark green vests have established their presence near several District public and public charter schools, some parents, like Talisa Sutton-Stephenson, said that
Safe Passage requires stronger parent engagement and interagency collaboration. Years before the pandemic, Sutton-Stephenson participated in Safe Passage while serving as a manager of a program that provided housing for the families of youth in the court system. In her role, Sutton-Stephenson became involved in the grassroots organizing that not only placed Safe Passage personnel outside of public and public 5 The Safe Passage program places trusted adults charter schools, but along major streets from the community along specific routes to improve
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student safety on their way to and from school. (Courtesy photo)
Whitman-Walker Spearheads Annual HIV Awareness Events Lindiwe Vilakazi WI Staff Writer
Community health clinic Whitman-Walker, in partnership with the Smithsonian museum, is hosting a series of events this week in honor of World AIDS Day. The annual observance is dedicated to commemorating those who have lost their lives to the life-threatening disease while spreading awareness of the progress, support, and equity needed in the fight to end the har-
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