By now you may have heard about my encounter with the squirrel family and while the squirrels ultimately didn’t survive, you can help if you happen to find some unattended baby squirrels around the District.
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You can place your order until 11:59pm tonight (July 31st) with an estimated delivery date of August 18th or 19th (everything prints and ships after July 31st). This is a reusable 100% cotton, 3-layer mask with finished edges and ear loops. $15/mask plus shipping.
There is also a Southeast Love shirt and hoodie sale, PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE! The deadline for this order is also tonight with an estimated delivery of August 13th. Spread the word but slow the spread! ❤️
(Washington, DC) The District’s reported data for Thursday, July 30, 2020 includes 69 new positive coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, bringing the District’s overall positive case total to 12,126.
The District reported one additional COVID-19 related death.
80-year-old male
Tragically, 585 District residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19.
The community spread chart is subject to fluctuation because the data is based on symptom onset date. As national demand for testing increases and results take longer to come back in DC and across the country, DC Health has identified a need to increase the reporting lag time by four days to reduce volatility in the data. The most recent data reflects an increase in community spread. To ensure this graph accurately reflects the most recent data, the community spread count is being paused as these adjustments are made.
Busboys and Poets has always been a place for artists, activists, and writers of the community to gather and break bread. And while we may be physically distant right now, we can still stay connected and break bread together.
Join us on Zoom for Busboys and Friends: A Virtual Dinner Party held every Friday night at 6 pm. Hosted by CEO and Founder, Andy Shallal with a special dinner guest each week.
Order your favorite meal and beverage from Busboys and Poets, set your table, and tune in for a special dinner with some of the most influential leaders of our time.
This week's very special dinner guest is the Founder of the landmark 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine. Nikole got hooked on journalism when she joined her high school newspaper and began writing about students like her, who were bused across town as part of a voluntary school desegregation program.
Her heroes are the race beat reporters such as Ida B Wells, Ethel Payne, Simeon Booker and Claude Sitton, whose fearless coverage helped move this nation closer to its promise.
Prior to joining The New York Times, Nikole worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City, where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools. Before that, she reported for the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest, The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., where she covered numerous beats, including demographics the census, and county government.
Nikole started her journalism career covering the majority-Black Durham Public Schools for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. During her three years there, she wrote extensively on issues of race, class, school resegregation, and equity. Nikole is a native Iowan, a child produced by the hopes of both the Great Migration and those who migrated from foreign shores. She has also lived in Indiana, Georgia, North Carolina and Oregon. Now she is Bed-Stuy fly in Brooklyn.
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HumanitiesDC is offering the opportunity for graduate students and others conducting and presenting original humanities research to become Humanitini Curators. Each Curator will create a public humanities program based on their research or area of expertise. As part of the application, prospective curators will need to fully describe this research topic, and where it is situated within a wider humanities field. This opportunity is part of the Humanities Grant Program supported with funding from the District of Columbia Government through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
The public programs will follow HumanitiesDC’s successful Humanitini model that brings thoughtful humanities discussions to Washington, DC’s happy-hour scene.
Project Period 2 – All Humanitini events proposed at this deadline must take place within October 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. Prospective Curators will provide three preferred program dates that fall within the project period on their applications and will be asked to indicate whether they would be able to accept an assigned program date.
Soul of the City provides young people, ages 14 to 19, an opportunity to explore the role of the humanities in asking and answering critical questions about the world. The Soul of the City grant encourages the development and delivery of a high-quality humanities-driven youth engagement program. The award recognizes innovative models that empower and engage young people in programs that build civic engagement, critical thinking and leadership skills. This opportunity is part of the Humanities Grant Program supported with funding from the District of Columbia Government through the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Awarded since 2014, Soul of the City grants provide communities, neighborhood organizations, churches and educational organizations the opportunity to work with young people through the humanities lens.
If you are sick, stay home! Only one household member should attend. Face masks are required! Stay 6 feet from others. No pets allowed. Customers must not touch products before purchase. Keep your Market visit brief.
The market team is taking extraordinary measures to keep you safe. Please support them in this difficult season, eat healthily, and stay safe! 10am - 1pm 3200 6th Street, SE
Join Alan Banks of Friendship Place, Washington, DC explains how his social service organization helps homeless populations in urban communities understand and renew their lives in order to maintain a sense of dignity through targeted health and wellness initiatives.
Alan Banks is Community Engagement Associate and Speakers Bureau Coordinator with Friendship Place, a premier housing service provider for people experiencing homelessness in the DC region. Friendship Place develops innovative, customized, person-focused programs to empower participants to rebuild their lives, find homes, get jobs and reconnect with friends, family and the community, permanently.
Register in advance for this webinar by clicking on this link: smithsonian.zoom.us…
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Inspiration | Action is a new weekly virtual series of programs by Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum to educate and inspire participants to calls of action and become civically engaged. Experts will briefly present on four related topics based on one monthly theme. At the end of each program, participants will be provided digital resources to engage, participate in, or just learn more about the topic discussed.
Please join in on these weekly 30-minute programs designed to harness the collective power of community and its ability to care for and comfort each other in these uncertain times.
Note: Sign Language interpretation or live captioning for our virtual programs available upon request. Two weeks advance notice is appreciated. Place your request by emailing Linda Maxwell at MaxwellL@si.edu
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Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Columbia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, July 24, 2020
WASHINGTON – Doemini Mosley, 35, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to defrauding Howard University out of more than $100,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin and James A. Dawson, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Washington Field Office Criminal Division.
Mosley pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Her co-conspirator, Brian Johnson, 35, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty last week to the same offense. The charge carries a statutory maximum sentence of five years in prison. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Mosley faces a potential recommended sentence of between 10 and 24 months in prison. The plea agreement calls for Mosley to pay $139,697.75 in restitution and $85,850 in a forfeiture money judgment.
Mosley worked at Howard from 2011 through June 2017, initially in the financial aid office and then ultimately as the Associate Director of the Bursar’s Office. Johnson, a Howard graduate, served as Associate Director of Financial Aid from 2014 through August 2016. In the fall of 2016, Mosley proposed a scheme to Johnson in which Mosley would cause fraudulently-obtained money to be sent from Howard University to Johnson, with Johnson then kicking back half of the proceeds to Mosley. As part of the scheme, Mosley applied fraudulent financial aid awards onto Johnson’s student profile even though he was no longer a student or employed at the school. As a result, Mosley caused Howard University to issue $107,697.75 to Johnson’s bank account between November 2016 and May 2017. Johnson admitted sharing half of the fraud proceeds with Mosley in the form of cash or electronic payments.
Mosley also separately defrauded the university out of an additional $32,000 in May 2017.
The Honorable Beryl A. Howell accepted Johnson’s guilty plea last Friday and Mosley’s guilty plea today. Johnson is scheduled to be sentenced on September 25, 2020. Mosley is scheduled to be sentenced on October 2, 2020.
This case is part of an ongoing investigation being conducted by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kondi Kleinman of the Fraud and Public Corruption Section is prosecuting the case.
Metro Transit Police daily blotter reports show the time and location of arrests, reports and citations for a specified 24-hour period. Generally, reports are published every weekday, except holidays. Please note that blotter reports are not a comprehensive list of every police event, and information is based on initial reports made to MTPD. Follow-up investigations may reveal different or additional information. As a result, the classification of crimes may change as investigations are advanced. Please refer to crime statistics for official information. Incidents that occur aboard trains are reported from the nearest rail station.
The Private Security Camera Incentive Program, administered by the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants, encourages residents, businesses, non-profits, and religious institutions to install security camera systems on their property and register them with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). This program is intended to help deter crime and assist law enforcement with investigations.
There are two ways to participate:
The Private Security Camera Rebate Program creates a rebate for residents, businesses, nonprofits, and religious institutions to purchase and install security camera systems on their property and register them with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). The program provides a rebate of up to $200 per camera, with a maximum rebate of up to $500 per residential address (e.g., home offices, condo buildings, and apartments) and $750 for all other eligible addresses. The rebate is exclusively for the cost of the camera(s) including any applicable tax.
The Private Security Camera Voucher Program provides a private security camera system to eligible residents free of charge. District residents—either owners or tenants—who receive public assistance may be eligible to have a camera system installed at their home.
If you have questions about the rebate or voucher program, please contact us at security.cameras@dc.gov or 202-727-5124.
Note: The Safe at Home Private Security Camera Program for Seniors is administered by the Office of Aging. For additional information and to enroll in that program, please contact the Office of Aging at (202) 724-5626.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District seek the public’s assistance in locating a suspect in reference to an Assault on a Police Officer offensethat occurred on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in the 1600 block of H Street, Northwest.
At approximately 12:01 am,the suspect threw bricks at multiple police officers. The suspect then fled the scene. Two officers were transported to area hospitals for treatment.
The suspect was captured by a nearby surveillance camera and can be seen in the photos below:
Anyone who can identify this individual or who has knowledge of this incident should take no action but call police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE at 50411. Crime Solvers of Washington, DC currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment of the person or persons responsible for a crime committed in the District of Columbia.
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