The Washington Informer

More than 776,000 children have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since Congress approved changes to federal food assistance rules, according to a new analysis that found children accounted for nearly half of the 1.67 million people who disappeared from SNAP rolls in a dozen states. The losses have alarmed anti-hunger advocates because SNAP […]

Black women are being systematically undervalued and extracted from institutions, leading to economic losses and a democracy issue, as they are expected to carry democracy while being denied full protection within it.

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Janeese Lewis George has emerged as the presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee for D.C., and is focusing on institutional change, expanding solar energy infrastructure, making local government more efficient, and ensuring District families spend no more than 7% of their income on childcare.

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Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill requiring local school districts to develop a policy to keep students away from their phones at school, which has been met with mixed reactions from students, teachers, and parents.

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Community members will celebrate Juneteenth with a Ward 7 parade and picnic, in coordination with Dr. Opal Lee's "Opal's Walk for Freedom", to commemorate the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and declared the end of slavery.

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