DC Schools Work Hard To Make Sure Students Get Meals As Virus Swirls
Racquel Jones Junior, Woodrow Wilson – WDC Winter/Spring 2020 School, for many children is not just a learning environment. For some it’s their main source of nutrition. With the closure […]
Pandemic Allows Earth To Heal
Anna Robinson Senior, Duke Ellington School of the Arts – WDC Winter/Spring 2020 Despite of all the negative and darkness that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic, there has been […]
2019 Scholarship Winner – Cayla Cade
CONGRATULATIONS! Cayla Cade
Students Walkout to Protest Gun Violence…Is It Making a Difference
By Alana Campbell | Junior, Paint Branch High School, Burtonsville, MD | Winter/Spring 2019 One year after students nationwide walked out of school to honor the 17 killed in the Parkland, […]
The Shaw Neighborhood Rallies Behind #DONTMUTEDC
By Aminah Cole | Senior, Bishop McNamara High School, Forestville, MD | Winter/Spring 2019 Chocolate City is melting at the center of its core in the historic Shaw neighborhood, a community […]
Second Chance is Giving Hope
By Eve Ellis | Sophomore, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC | Winter/Spring 2019 Prison Fellowship along with 290 partner organizations sponsored the Road to Second Chances Prayer Walk in […]
2018 Scholarship Winner – Jasmine Boykin
Jasmine Boykin Graduate, Laurel High School in Laurel, MD attending University of Maryland, College Park, MD in Autumn Essay Question Young people across the nation made their voices heard following […]
“It can happen to anybody”: Marchers Recount Stories of Gun Violence
By Mary-Kate Wilson Barbara and Andy Parker came to the March For Our Lives with a poster showing the face of their 24-year-old daughter, Alison. Alison, who was a local […]
Vendors Spread Gun Control Awareness While Making Money
By Cayla Cade Shatavias Shivers drove 10 hours from South Carolina with a truckload of t-shirts to arrive at the March for Our Lives before 6 a.m. to get a […]
DC Emancipation
Reporter: Damon Countee UJW Winter/Spring 2017 April 16 marked 155 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensation Emancipation Act, which granted freedom to about three thousand one hundred enslaved […]
