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Southeast’s White Supremacists Buckle Under ‘Counter’ Pressure By Sam P.K. Collins New High WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins School Soon after the National Park Principals Service granted White supremacist Jason Kessler permission Outline Goals to host, in front of the White By Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer @SamPKCollins When the new academic year kicks off this month, students at nearly 20 D.C. public schools will return to newly installed principals. Anacostia and Ballou high schools, located in Ward 8, count among the crop of institutions that have undergone significant personnel changes over the last few months. While the men at the helm of Southeast’s two public high schools say they recognize the hurdles ahead in boosting parent, student,
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5 Members of Black Lives Matter and other counter protesters march near Lafayette Park in Northwest on Aug. 12 in opposition of white supremacy and the Unite the Right rally. /Photo courtesy of JoVaughn Davis
Owner of Ben’s Chili Bowl Looks Back on 60 Years of Excellence By Dorothy Rowley WI Staff Writer
5Ben’s Chili Bowl owner Virginia Ali still works periodically at the original restaurant on U Street in Northwest. /Photo by Dorothy Rowley
At a time when Virginia Ali should be basking in the rewards of long, arduous hours spent overseeing her family’s famous Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant, she prefers keeping busy ensuring that the tradition she created with her late husband continues for generations to come. But as the iconic eatery’s 60th anniversary approaches, the 84-year-old Ali recently took a moment to reminisce about those times in the late 1960s and
early ‘70s when her restaurant struggled back to its feet following the rioting that took place in D.C. after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ali said while those weren’t the best of times, it was hard work and perseverance that proved key to the restaurant’s survival in the aftermath of the four days of unrest in April 1968 that resulted in the permanent shuttering of several minority businesses along the once-bustling U Street corridor in Northwest.
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House, the second iteration of a right-wing rally that ended violently last year, plans coalesced around the protest that successfully countered that of the unwanted guests. Hours before confronting a cadre of White supremacists not even totaling 40, thousands of local demonstrators of various ethnicities, ideologies and left-leaning political affiliations openly and aggressively denounced “Unite the Right 2” and President Donald J. Trump’s complicity in the mistreatment of marginalized groups on Sunday afternoon. “I’m happy about the diversity of the crowd against White supremacy,” Raelea Taylor, a college student from Prince George’s County, said as she, her sister, cousin and friend gathered among legions of activists prepared to face the White supremacist group that pulled into Foggy Bottom Metro station on a private Metro train before marching along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House under police protection. Hours earlier, counter protest festivities kicked off at Freedom Plaza, less than two miles Northwest of the anticipated clash between the “Unite the Right” protesters and opposition forces, where a sea of people, some sporting bandanas, ski masks and black
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