By Southwester Staff By the time you read this, school will have started up again in The District and students will be back in classrooms. Not their typical classrooms, though. Instead, they will be returning the classrooms they finished the 2019-2020 school year in: their homes. At the end of July, due to the ongoing […]
Southwest’s Labyrinth: A Path to Meditate
By Rev. Ruth Hamilton Did you know the District is home to nine labyrinths, per www.LabyrinthLocator.com? Six of the nine are in Northwest; two in Northeast; and, one here in Southwest. On Tuesday, Sept. 15, Westminster Church at 4th and I SW will open to the public to walk the labyrinth–an ancient spiritual tool for […]
Why You Should Stop Saying “I Don’t See Color”
This statement probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. We got an award-winning documentary filmmaker to tell us why. By Dawn Porter Editor’s Note: This essay originally ran on the website of “Reader’s Digest.” Am I your only black friend? Before you answer, let me add to the question. I don’t mean George from […]
Healing Practices for Challenging Times
Shared by Smith Center and Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund By Lisa Simms Booth, Kiersten Gallagher, and Julia Rowland The Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund (TDJBCF) partnered for an evening of healing on Wednesday, July 15. The evening, hosted via Zoom and live-streamed via […]
D.C.’s Norton Scores Victory to Clean up the Anacostia in Water Infrastructure Bil
By Southwester Staff The District’s tireless Congresswoman and champion, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced in July that she was able to include in the House’s Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA), a major water infrastructure bill, a provision that would help accelerate the cleanup of harmful sediments in and around the federal navigation channel […]
Feeding the People who Feed the People
By Vyllorya Evans and Mary Wedgewood Christine Spencer, president of the James Creek Resident Council, has assembled an amazing group of volunteers to distribute much-needed free meals to seniors and other vulnerable residents in the Old Southwest community. These volunteers must adhere to strict food sanitation practices, in addition to all the COVID-19 practices. To […]
Friends of Southwest Continues to Support Residents
By Donna Purchase Friends of Southwest Continues to Support Residents By Donna Purchase The Friends of Southwest D.C. (FOS) has been a friend indeed to the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly (SWNA)! Most recently, FOS provided a $5,000 grant to SWNA to update their website, which is up and running at www.swna.org (feedback welcome). The Friends have […]