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The path to a finalized fiscal year 2024 budget of $19.2 billion included robust discussion about excluded workers, SNAP benefits and funding for violence prevention programs. 
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D.C. Council’s Finalized Budget Full of Last-Minute Plays

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Teachers, staff, students, parents and community members recently celebrated D.C.’s rich, unique culture during an event that further connected young people to many of the modern-day movers and shakers they had spent months learning about while completing a major project. 
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Bunker Hill Students Celebrate D.C. History and Culture with D.C. Black Facts Cards


With the launch of a new Black-owned barbershop in Adams Morgan comes the opportunity for its owners and barbers to expand the limits of what Black people can do in a racially compartmentalized industry. 
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Wilson’s on 18th Shines Bright in Adams Morgan

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WJLA-TV (Channel 7) reporter Sam Ford will serve as the keynote speaker for the star-studded annual WETATI Anne Reese Carswell scholarship and awards gala event sponsored by the WETATI Academy on June 17.
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WJLA’s Sam Ford to Keynote WETATI Event


The two-week pilot program will begin June 12 in Ivy City/Brentwood, Buzzard Point and Mayfair. All three predominantly Black neighborhoods have long histories of industrial or development-related air pollution. 
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Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You: Air-Quality-Monitoring Cars


The D.C. Democratic Party has rejected the implementation of ranked-choice voting, saying the method of prioritizing candidates on ballots is not in the city's best interest.
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D.C. Democrats Oppose Ranked-Choice Voting in City Elections


Linda Harllee Harper, the District director of gun violence prevention and the executive director of the Office of Neighborhood and Safety Engagement, died Friday at the age of 58.
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Linda Harllee Harper, D.C. Bureaucrat Who Fought Against Gun Violence, Dies at 58


A crowd of nearly 100 people was on hand on May 20 at Howard University for a forum, "Time To Stand Up," with former NBA standout Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
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Howard University Hosts ‘Time to Stand Up’


The word is out to find retired musicians over 60 years old to play at an open jam session
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Using Music to Bring Back Happy Memories


Richard Jackson will serve as acting director of the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Tuesday.
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Richard Jackson Tabbed as Acting Head of D.C. Dept. of Energy and Environment


D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton thanked President Biden for vetoing the disapproval resolution that would have overturned the District’s policing reform law.
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Norton Lauds Biden for Veto of Legislation Nixing D.C. Police Reform

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Black-Owned Cereal Bar Opens at Springfield Town Center


D.C.-area author and entrepreneur Brandi Forte and her partner, Noel Warner, have taken the morning meal to an all-day experience.
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Black-Owned Cereal Bar Opens at Springfield Town Center

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