A Success Story in His Comfort Zone- December 30, 2006 "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own kindred . . ."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... The Slaves in Our Midst- December 23, 2006 Last Tuesday morning, one mile north of the White House, I sat in the upstairs dining room of a Dupont Circle cafe having a cup of tea with a slave. Well actually she's now a runaway slave who's living in the Washington area home of a good Samaritan.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... Where the 'Angry Young Men' Are- December 16, 2006 Darrell's barbershop was as quiet as a monastery this Saturday morning -- an alarming development in a shop that always does a booming business on weekends. Owner Darrell, regular barbers Bobby T. and Boogie, and barber trainee Fatmouth were sitting in their chairs at 10 a.m., waiting for the first customer to come through the door. Clearly something was wrong.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... The Breakdown That Really Needs Fixing- December 9, 2006 From Jan. 2, 1999 -- the date Mayor Anthony Williams was sworn in to office -- to yesterday, more than 1,700 people, mostly young black men, have been murdered in the nation's capital. That horrible statistic has an impact far beyond the grave.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... A Christmas Wish for Carver Terrace- December 2, 2006 Last Saturday's front-page story in the Washington Afro-American newspaper about Carver Terrace did not herald the advent of a blessed season. The piece, by staff writer Valencia Mohammed, concerned more than 75 students at Charles Young Elementary School who were so fed up with the shootouts in the Carver Terrace and Langston communities in Northeast D.C. that they marched in protest through their neighborhood, shouting: "Put the guns down. Stop the violence. We love life and want to live."...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401680_xml/~3/24... |