Like That barbershop is celebrating 30 years of serving Southeast D.C. “I’m told that Like That barbershops are considered landmarks, much like the Big Chair on Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave.,” says Sharon Hollingsworth, owner of Like That. Sharon and her husband never anticipated opening a barbershop, they knew nothing…

Southeast D.C. got its first full-service grocery store in 15 years when discount German store Lidl opened on Sept. 28. Full-service grocery stores, which provide a wide range of food items as well as household supplies and other amenities, are sparse east of the Anacostia River. Lidl, which is rapidly…

A long-running Anacostia clinic is expanding in Southeast D.C. as part of its broader mission of addressing health issues in the largely Black community. The new clinic, run by Whitman-Walker Health, has already broken ground on a new location in the Congress Heights neighborhood. Whitman-Walker, a D.C.-based non-profit community health…

“Being that I’m an employee here, my medicine is for free,” says 79-year-old Frank Cardile. “So, that’s why I gotta keep working. Until I die.” It is no secret there is a health care crisis in America. There is one now, as we fight to save the Affordable Care Act…

This is the sixth in a series of profiles of current graduate students at the University of Mississippi. To read the previous profile, click here. Although the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of this year’s Miss Mississippi Pageant, Chensey Mardis is not letting that stop her from representing the…

This is the fifth in a series of profiles of current graduate students at the University of Mississippi. To read the previous profile, click here. For some, the desire to teach and help mold the minds of the next generation comes at an early age. For others, however, the realization…

This is the fourth in a series of profiles of current graduate students at the University of Mississippi. To read the previous profile, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty for many across Mississippi, the United States and the world. For college students, the journey back to their college…

This is the third in a series of profiles of current graduate students at the University of Mississippi. To read the previous profile, click here. “My professors always made me feel like a valuable member of the classroom and always wanted to hear what I had to say — even…

This is the second in a series of profiles of current graduate students at the University of Mississippi. To read the previous profile, click here. There are currently over one million active-duty personnel across the five branches of the United States military — and there are over sixteen million veterans. …