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VOL. 17 NO. 3
HYATTSVILLE’S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
MARCH 2020
Council reviews preliminary Magruder Pointe plan By Sophie Gorman Oriani
Dance students from the Jim Henson Center for Visual and Performing Arts Academy perform during Northwestern High School’s “Of African Descent” production. KELSEY MANNIX
There was much discussion during the Feb. 3 and Feb. 18 city council meetings, as the members reviewed a preliminary plan of subdivision (PPS) for the upper parcel of the Magruder Pointe development. The proposal, which has already been viewed by the City of Hyattsville Planning Committee, outlines the layout of a proposed 31 lots in the upper parcel SEE MAGRUDER ON 12
Celebrating African history through art
Despite city opposition, liquor board OKs license transfer
By Kelsey Mannix
By Sophie Gorman Oriani
NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL
As people filed in to Northwestern High School’s auditorium on Feb. 13 for the Jim Henson Center for Visual and Performing Arts Academy’s “Of African Descent” production, they were greeted with upbeat music from various African cultures playing over the sound system. Those beats set the tone for the eve-
ning’s educational celebration of culture and diversity. Students sang, danced, played instruments and performed theatrical readings showcasing various aspects of African culture — the successes, the challenges and everything in between. The production coincided with the International Decade for People of African Descent, which is an initiative of the United Nations
designed to raise awareness of the contributions people of African descent have made to the global community and to “propose concrete measures to promote their full inclusion and combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” according to the U.N.’s website. The official decade runs from 2015-2024. At the beginning of the program, Sekou SEE NHS ON 8
At the city council meeting on Jan. 21, the council approved a motion authorizing the mayor to send a letter opposing the transfer of Lee’s Liquor liquor license. Lee’s Liquor applied to transfer their license from 2903 SEE LIQUOR ON 9
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