Virginia Ali, who opened Ben’s Chili Bowl in 1958 with her husband, Ben, credits her children and family with keeping the business open during the toughest parts of the pandemic. […]
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(Screengrab from YouTube video) By Howard University News Service WASHINGTON — Like much of the nation, cities and counties in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have seen rapidly rising coronavirus […]
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A sign at the end of the New Carrollton Metro Station showing the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on Sept. 18, 2021. (Kelly Livingston/Capital News Service) By KELLY LIVINGSTON Capital News […]
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation: Comprehensive Policy Reforms Needed to Support Youth and Young Adults Transitioning from Foster Care With a national moratorium on youth aging out of foster care […]
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By Micha Green AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com Despite the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic preventing an in-person gathering, the Association for the Study of African American Life […]
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