Love and Vigilance: Traveling During COVID-19
There’s a lot to learn from New York’s turnaround in the long battle against COVID-19, even in the DC area where our collective resolve...
Let Us Heed the Words of Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation...
If Frederick Douglass could see the controversy over the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. today, he would offer the following “reality...
Commentary: Making a Climate Difference on Capitol Hill
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. The enormity of the challenge can sometimes lead to a feeling of personal helplessness. Solutions are...
What is Initiative 81?
When I proposed Initiative 81, I was motivated by a personal crisis. Entheogenic plants and fungi had helped me overcome crippling postpartum depression. By...
The Power of Proximity: How we should plan to ReOpen DC
There is a saying, used by social and economic justice campaigners, “Nothing about us without us is for us.” It seems highly appropriate in...
End DC’s Federal Injustice System
In a federally controlled park, in the middle of a federally controlled city, stands a federally controlled statue. Abraham Lincoln, the flawed leader who...
Help The District’s Vulnerable Children
Like the nation, the District of Columbia has been shocked, traumatized and damaged by the coronavirus public health crisis. On top of this, the...
The Unearthing Of A Buried Sin
"How Long, Not Long" --the phrase that rang out from the public speech Our God Is Marching On! delivered by Martin Luther King Jr....
Don’t Place Your Faith in Build First for Greenleaf
In just two months, the Washington Post has published a perspective and an op-ed on environmental hazards in Southwest DC due to economic activity....
We Need to Replace the Emancipation Statue
On Tuesday, June 23, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced that she’ll be introducing federal legislation to remove the Emancipation Statue from Lincoln Park,...
