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ArtBy Patty Smith May 26, 2015
My Friend Nathaniel
I met him in the 90s in a pink rooming house. I had just lost Ruth, my mother’s middle sister….
ArtBy Chris Shaw May 26, 2015
By an Inch, Marsh is Pinched!
Billy didn’t want it this way, but Ferret Apache and Jed Harris wound up being laid side by side in…
ArtBy Leonard Hyater May 26, 2015
Jesus is Watching
The burglar broke into the house and heard this voice and it said, “Jesus is watching, Jesus is watching!” So…
ArtBy Chon Gotti May 26, 2015
Loving is Respecting
“Love” is a word most people take for granted. But if you truly love someone, you show it through your…
ArtBy Angie Whitehurst May 26, 2015
Crazy for the Roof of Housing First
Now is the time across the board to work together and toil toward assuring Housing First as part of Safety,…
OpinionBy Gary Minter May 26, 2015
Fight of the Century
Talking with Gene Simmons of Kiss (or someone who looks a lot like him), and Danielle the bartender at Margaretville,…
OpinionBy Gwynette Smith May 26, 2015
The Decision of Our Lives
Brown v. Board of Education, the 61st anniversary of which was May 17, was a landmark decision that really laid…
OpinionBy Arthur Johnson May 26, 2015
MOVING UP: The Battle Over Fast Food Wages
The battle in recent years over income inequality has been reaching a boiling point as employees of major fast food…
OpinionBy Jeffery McNeil May 22, 2015
When Do We Stop Crying About the White Man
We keep hearing from civil rights leader how white people are holding us back but if we pause a moment…
Media Center FeatureBy Street Sense Filmmakers Co-op / Levester Green April 29, 2015
📹 I Am Levester Joe Green II
A Street Sense Filmmakers Co-op production, directed by Levester Green, touching on poetry, police harassment, education and more.
NewsBy Reginald Black April 19, 2015
DMV Area Assesses Itself
A breakout session at the National Conference of Ending Poverty focused on ending homelessness in the Washington metropolitan area and…
NewsBy Jacquie Lee April 8, 2015
Poverty Conference Receives Mixed Reviews
More than 800 people from across the nation gathered at the Washington Convention Center on March 28 for the fourth…
ArtBy Ken Martin April 2, 2015
Developmental Disability Month: My Daughter
It’s National Developmental Disability Month. One disability not only hidden but most frequently overlooked is Selective Mutism. According to the…
NewsBy Jacquie Lee March 26, 2015
Bowser Signs Action Plan at Regional Summit on Homelessness
On March 17, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser joined regional executives Ike Leggett from Montgomery County, Maryland, and Rushern…
ArtBy Cynthia Mewborn March 2, 2015
Public School Meets Staging Hope!
On January 29, 2015, “Staging Hope”–a Street Sense Theatre Group Workshop directed by George Washington University professor Leslie Jacobson, Roy…
NewsBy Reginald Black February 19, 2015
Southeast: The Final Frontier
In a recent article published by Al Jazeera America, the question was asked: who can afford to live where? The…
News February 2, 2015
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Housing Segregation
On January 21, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case involving a dispute between the Texas Department of…
NewsBy Marie-Laetitia Vidor / Hannah Roop December 10, 2014
Seniors Tread Hard Line Between Fixed Incomes and Rising Costs of Living
In and around Washington, D.C., seniors are the most vulnerable to hunger. According to a report by Feeding America, which…
September 5, 2014
Bea Gaddy Family Center
Services: Shelter Location: Baltimore, MD
NewsBy Sophie Alexander July 2, 2014
Transportation Barriers Increase with Fares
Effective June 29th Metro Fare prices increased slightly making cost of transportation an even greater problem for D.C.’s low income…
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