By Peri Hamlin, with contributions by Kirstin Jones One of the first “Southwester” articles written about 2011 SWNA Scholarship recipient Kirstin Jones was in 2009. Back then, she was a young teen doing amazing things. “The Southwester” spotlighted her because she was selected as a student representative to the D.C. State Board of Education. Fast […]
Richard Wright Senior Earns Herself and School a Perfect Score
By Helen Compton-Harris, Director of Outreach Still relatively new to the area, Richard Wright Public Charter School is proud to be the first public high school located in Southwest.For decades, Southwest residents commuted to Northwest, Northeast, and Southeast D.C. to attend a public high school, but not now. Richard Wright PCS is here to offer […]
African Art in Fragments of Time and Gold
By Southwester Staff Rich with archeological treasures of enduring artistic beauty, the exhibit Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, is filled with delights to behold. Covering the period from the beginning of Islam in the seventh century to the […]
Artechouse Displays the Blues
By Sheila Wickouski Blue is all around us, evoking many emotions from the optimism of “blue skies” to the sadness of “singing the blues.” In art, the color blue has been used for tens of thousands of years, from a blue Egyptian funerary figure, a Chinese blue-and-white teapot, Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, to […]
Mutual Aid Kicks off Autumn Food Drive
By Max Grossman and Carlee Brown Ward 6 Mutual Aid (W6MA) is an all-volunteer 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) to serve our neighbors with food and supplies throughout the ongoing covid crisis. […]
SW Support Group Celebrates Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month
By Jennifer Fei and Thelma D. Jones On Wednesday evening, Oct. 21, the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund (TDJBCF) Support Group held its Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month Celebration via Zoom and Facebook live. Attendees tuned in from as far as North Carolina, Georgia, and New York to celebrate their survivorship and to support […]
Native American Veterans Memorial to Open November 11
By Southwester Staff The National Native American Veterans Memorial will open on Wednesday, Nov.11, at 4th St. and Independence Avenue, SW. A short virtual message marking the event will be posted on the National Museum of the American Indian’s website and YouTube channel. Previously scheduled events to mark the memorial’s completion have been postponed “due […]