GrayOnSYEP Click the link above to view Vincent Gray speaking about the Summer Youth Employment Program at his Ward 1 Town Hall. I started my time at CentroNia with the PMC during the middle of the Summer Youth Employment Program, or SYEP. Passions run high around this program because kids who worked in it didn’t [...]

Not long ago, at the Ward 1 Town Hall meeting held by Almost Mayor Vincent Gray, I did something I never thought I’d do at any political event. I walked out. I was outraged. Had Vincent Gray, the man who will probably be Washington’s next mayor, just advocated fighting as a method for dealing with [...]

I recently wandered through the Mount Pleasant library, killing time and waiting for something-I forget what-to happen.  Behind me were two men, speaking Spanish, probably from El Salvador, browsing what is a notably sparse Spanish-language section of this library in what is a predominantly Latino neighborhood. The shelves in the English-language area were pretty spare [...]