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Councilmember McDuffie Fights to Remain in Attorney General’s Race
Vol. 57, No. 27 • April 21 - 27, 2022
James Wright WI Staff Writer D.C. Councilman OR Council member Kenyan McDuffie plans to fight a ruling by the city's Board of Elections which concluded he cannot continue his campaign for the June 21 Democratic primary nomination for attorney general because he lacks the credentials for the position based on the law. “Let me be clear, today’s ruling was an attack on our democracy and on working people in D.C.,” McDuffie said in a statement. “Unelected bureaucrats, prompted by a frivolous challenge from a corporate lawyer, who is funding his campaign with the millions he made defending powerful interests like Facebook and Amazon, telling a lifelong District resident who has spent his entire life fighting for working families that he’s ‘not qualified’ is exactly what it looks like. We’re taking this ruling to the courts where we expect
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5 Mayor Muriel Bowser and some of her supporters march in the Emancipation Day parade on April 16. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
HU President Frederick Reviews Milestones as Retirement Looms
The Stark Reality of Parents’ COVID Deaths – Grandparents Step In
But Students and Faculty Offer Wide Range of Perspectives
Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer A newly-published report reveals that 200,000 children have reportedly lost parents to COVID-19. And as young orphans attempt to cope with such tragic losses, many grandparents have assumed the role of primary caregivers. The Covid Collaborative coalition estimated that about 167,000 American children lost a parent or primary caregiver to the pandemic, with much higher rates among communities of color. However, researchers at Imperial College London put the number of children who have lost one or both
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5 Cassandra Gentry, grandmother raising two grandchildren.
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Since recently announcing his retirement, Howard University [HU] President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick has been vocal about what the university will accomplish prior to his departure, particularly as it relates to upgrading campus amenities, improving student experiences and stabilizing HUs finances. During a recent State of the University address, Fred-
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