By Southwester Staff On the morning of Dec. 19, 2020, Washington, DC, our Southwest neighborhood lost a friend, neighbor, volunteer, and a true servant to our city. For more than 20 years, Viola Ethel Moore lived in Southwest at the Carrollsburg Condominiums, and later at Tiber Island Cooperative Homes. She worked part-time and volunteered for […]
SWNA to Honor Media Arts and Scholarship at Annual Black History Program
By Southwester Staff The Southwest Neighborhood Assembly History Task Force (SWNA HTF) cordially invites you to our 2021 Virtual Annual Black History Program on Monday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., via Zoom. The 2021 Black History theme is “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.” Established by the Association for the Study of African American […]
Southwest Comm-Unity Forum’s Annual Toys for Tots a Huge Success
By Paul Taylor The Southwest Comm-Unity Forum annual Christmas Toys for Tots was another huge success. Held on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., at Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC). We could not have wished for a more beautiful Saturday with children laughing, music pumped up, and volunteers sharing Christmas treats with […]
Launch of the Neal Peirce Foundation
By Andrea Peirce In December 2019, Southwest lost one of St. Augustine’s founding members: Neal Peirce. Peirce was a lifelong journalist who moved to Southwest in the 1960s. He is also recognized as one of the founders of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly (SWNA). Over the past year, the Peirce family has begun the work of establishing a […]
Op-Ed: Participate in the SW Community Survey Today!
By Southwest DC Action As members in our community, we have become deeply concerned by the rate of inequitable change in the Southwest-Waterfront neighborhood. Rampant redevelopment in today’s Southwest is reminiscent of the 1950s and 1960s, when 90% of Southwest was demolished. The subsequent rebuilding displaced many, including thousands of longtime African American families in […]
Mutual Aid February Dates and Donation Needs
By Carlee Brown and Max Grossman Ward 6 Mutual Aid (W6MA) is a grassroots group working with Black and Brown grassroots organizations to help keep our communities safe. The Southwest Pod of W6MA is partnering with Christ United Methodist Church (CUMC) on a community food and supply drive to serve our neighbors in response to […]
Corrections to Amidon-Bowen Plans for Term 3 In-person Learning
By Southwester Staff Editor’s Note: In the January 2021 issue of The Southwester, we printed an article about the term 3 opening at Amidon-Bowen elementary school that contained some errors. This article is the corrected version. Starting Feb. 1, things are going to change for parents and students in the DCPS community. For the first […]