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Celebrating 58 Years - Vol. 58, No. 52 • October 12 - 18, 2023
Amid Conversation about Crime Prevention, Activists Raise Up Victims of Police Violence By Sam P.K. Collins Staff Writer
5Andrew O. Clarke, Esq., lawyer for the Wilson and Martin families, and Dalaneo Martin’s mother, a member of the Coalition of Concerned Mothers, at a vigil for 17-year-old Dalaneo in March 2023 . (Robert R. Roberts/WI File Photo)
A day after seven D.C. council members introduced legislation centered on a whole-of-government approach to public safety, a judge sentenced two men to prison for their involvement in Makiyah Wilson's murder. As family members of the late Wilson received their justice on Friday, Oct. 6 in D.C. Superior Court, a group of activists gathered not far from there, outside of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s central headquarters, in search of a similar
By Sam P.K. Collins WI Staff Writer
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Elderly Tenant Pursues Civil Suit against Property Manager
The Washington Informer Celebrates 59 Years The Washington Informer, the largest Blackowned newspaper based in the District, will celebrate its 59 th anniversary on Oct. 16. “The Washington Informer checks a lot of boxes,” said Ron Burke, the company’s director of advertising and marketing. “It is a Black woman media company. After 59 years it is still going strong. That is the reflection of the strength of the leadership and the staff. It shows that the community believes in us.” The Informer was founded in 1964 by Cal-
type of justice for those who had either been killed during encounters with police, or while in police custody. That afternoon, Tanya Wilson, mother of Lazarus Wilson, took to the microphone atop a yellow truck that had driven protesters from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to police headquarters on Indiana Avenue in Northwest. Hours earlier, Wilson joined members of Harriet’s Wildest Dreams and the relatives of other young men who had been killed by D.C. police officers in front of the DOJ. Families
In the latest stage of her crusade to improve her living conditions and that of her neighbors, D.C. resident Glenda Richmond has filed a civil suit alleging that her building manager didn’t accommodate tenants during building inspections and repairs that kept them out of their apartments for hours. Richmond filed the suit in August, weeks after WinnCompanies announced that it would be installing new laminate flooring in her apartment and that of 19 other elderly tenants at Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments in Northwest. The suit alleges 5 The Washington Informer celebrates 59 years on Oct. 16. (WI File Photo)
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