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Vol. 56, No. 29 • May 6 - 12, 2021
D.C. Residents Walk-Up in a Day of Action Against COVID-19 Pandemic James Wright WI Staff Writer
5 D.C. residents show up the first day of opening for designated walk-up vaccine sites. Several residents went to Turkey Thicket in Northeast to receive their appointment-free vaccine on Saturday, May 1. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
District residents took advantage of the suspension of the pre-registration coronavirus vaccine program and turned out in large numbers on May 1 to be vaccinated in the city government’s Day of Action walk-up sites. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the program last week in the effort to get residents vaccinated against COVID-19. In addition to residents being inoculated at walk-up sites, volunteers fanned out throughout District neighbor-
Visit to D.C. School Serves as Part of National School Reopening Tour In the two months since his confirmation as U.S. education secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona has visited nearly 10 schools across the country in efforts to realize the Biden Administration’s vision of every American student safely entering classrooms both this spring and in the new school year next fall.
The most recent leg of Cardona’s tour brought him to Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in the heart of Southwest where he toured the campus and learned how administrators have collaborated with teachers and community members to facilitate the reopening process. The experience reaffirms the significance of the American Res-
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Morehouse Debate Team Withdraws from Annual Tournament Citing Racism
Education Secretary Cardona Makes Pit-stop at Amidon-Bowen Elementary Sam P.K. Collins WI Contributing Writer
hoods to encourage vaccination. The Day of Action occurred as the D.C. Department of Health reported on its coronavirus website that 490,911 doses of the vaccine have been administered in the city and 20.2 percent of residents are fully vaccinated, as of May 1. Since the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine arrived in the District in December, the city government has inoculated its residents and workers in phases. However, with President Biden issuing a mandate last month everyone in the coun-
National Championship Canceled after Spelman, Others Also Pull Out D. Kevin McNeir WI Senior Editor
5 Morehouse College men withdrew from a debate tournament due to racist taunts. (Courtesy photo/Morehouse College)
South Carolina Republican Tim Scott, the only Black U.S. senator currently in office from within the GOP ranks, may believe “America is not a racist country” as he stated during his rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress on April 28. But the recent decision by the debate team from More-
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