Wishful Thinking…by Katherine Gotthardt
(Editor’s Note: the following piece has been submitted by Katherine Gotthardt of All Things Writing, LLC)
Category: Our Voices
Equity Works and We Know It
by Jennifer Roberts We understand equity and its effect on living a quality life. Equity affects the way we shop, eat, purchase vehicles and purchase homes. We even see it at work in little things that don’t seem to have much significance. Creating equitable environments is what we do. Look at the way we purchase […]
Inspiration Friday: “Enough” by Katherine Gotthardt
Another Friday word of inspiration by author Katherine Gotthardt Enough In the family of “Is there enough?” money plays hide and seek, food travels by foot, arriving when it can. Dinnertime stretches like grandma’s back. Can you still touch your toes? (Read: Will there be any left for me?) Mom asks about winter clothes. Anything […]
The Weeds of Marijuana Injustice Continue to Grow
It’s common knowledge that the American justice system discriminates against people of color, especially Black people. On April 7, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed two laws that legalized possession and use of marijuana for adults over the age of 21. But the state marijuana laws in Virginia can be confusing. Marijuana possession and consumption were […]
Rampage shut out at home by the Virginia Royals
T.S. Eliot said that “April is the cruelest month,” and judging by recent results, this month can’t end any sooner for the Northern Virginia Rampage, as they were shut out at home by the Virginia Royals 28-0 on Saturday. On a beautiful day in Dumfries, at Chuck Coles Memorial Stadium, the Rampage were looking to […]
Rampage look to get back on the winning track against Virginia Royals
Tomorrow, the Northern Virginia Rampage look to get that elusive first win of the season as they take on the Virginia Royals at Potomac Middle School at 4:30pm. It will be part of a Major League Football Spring Elite doubleheader. Despite adding some new wrinkles on offense last week with the arrival of new offensive […]
Speaking Of…by Katherine Gotthardt
You’ve come to grips with it: no one’s in the audience. Every day, you hear yourself, reverberating in the mic, saying the same things in different ways, repeating your truths like mantras, your words like they came from the mountain. You must be doing something wrong, though. Nothing is happening. Nothing is changing. Nothing nods […]
Conversations in the Community announces upcoming events
During the next several weeks, Conversations in the Community has announced several events throughout the Northern Virginia areas: Virtual Conversation: Join our virtual conversation on Thursday, April 21st at 7:30 p.m. EST“We Have Not Arrived: Apathy in the African American Community.” We will discuss the contemporary challenges of racism in social systems such as housing, education and politics […]
A Marginalized Voice: Devalued, Dismissed, Disenfranchised & Demonized
“For I felt that without a common bond uniting men, without a continuous current of shared thought and feeling circulating through the social system, like blood coursing through the body, there could be no living worthy of being called human.” Richard Wright Black men have historically faced a challenge of finding their way and being […]
Commanders president says team doesn’t want bidding war over new stadium
Washington Commanders President Jason Wright insists the franchise isn’t trying to pit D.C.-area governments against each other in a bidding war over a new stadium, saying he feels that’s a “mischaracterization” of the team’s pursuit of a new venue in the region. In an interview with The Virginia Mercury, Wright, who oversees Commanders’ business operations […]