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SOME DC government officials, private-sector education researchers and advocates with whom I spoke during the past week seemed unfazed...

Funded by SpotlightDC:Capital City Fund for Investigative Journalism and The DC Line Outside the three-story, red brick apartment...

WHAT happens when DC’s deputy mayor for health and human services seems determined to steer parts of a multibillion-dollar contract to a...

THE murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has begun, ten months after George Floyd died in the street with Chauvin’s...

If it is true that “none of us are ourselves,” as Isabel Wilkerson declares in her book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,” the...

It is time for a maximum push for a new minimum wage. The federal minimum wage has not budged for more than a decade. The cost of living...

“We need a blueprint for a new society,” author, literary and political activist E. Ethelbert Miller told me when I proposed last year...

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A smile raced across my face when I learned that a lawsuit had been filed against former President Donald J. Trump for inciting the...

As if a baby needing physical protection, she swaddled herself in the mauve quilt her grandmother gave her decades earlier. She had...

This interview with Author and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller is part of the occasional series: Conversations with jonetta Artist...