Baby Einstein Child Development Center has served children 6 weeks to 5 years old and their families in the Anacostia neighborhood for over 10 years. D.C. is the most difficult city in the country to find and afford childcare in D.C. The Center’s Director, Ms. Regina Snead is working very hard to support these children and families because she cares about them deeply, but also knows how crucial having childcare immediately is.
These families cannot afford to be without childcare. They have to go to work. Being able to take leave, or miss work and maintain employment, especially over an extended time period is not an option.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
CONTACT DC OFFICIALS - HELP THE CENTER FIND A SPACE
The center needs to secure a space to relocate IMMEDIATELY. The community can reach out to the following officials to strongly urge them to make sure space is made available immediately:
Around 10:00 AM, on Thursday, January 18, 2024, an Anacostia community member called 911 about a gas leak near the DanAkil Convenience Store on Marion Barry Avenue SE. Next door to the convenience store is the Baby Einstein Child Development Center. The staff at the childcare center quickly began packing up all of the children and rushed them to safety at a local business outside of the safety zone before the Fire/EMS arrived.
“One of Dr. King's most radical speeches, given at Riverside Church in Manhattan, 1967.
This is the speech that linked war, poverty and corrupt economics. This is the speech that talked about America being " the greatest purveyor of violence in the world" and on "the wrong side of a world revolution." This is perhaps the speech that helped get him killed--assassinated exactly one year to the day after delivering it.”
D.C. government does not require schools to educate black students as well as white students according to a complaint submitted to the U.S. Department of Education by a D.C. resident.
Note from the editor:
This complaint was submitted just two days before the release of the Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action admissions to universities. The author of this complaint, Jeff Schmidt, is a long-time DC resident and father of a student who graduated from DC public schools and then went on to graduate from college. Schmidt is a boomer, cisgender, white man, with a PhD in physics from the University of California, Irvine, who takes an active volunteer role in assisting DC public school science and math teachers in creating better curriculum.
It’s entirely possible for a student to get a good education in the DC public school system but it’s no easy task. According to the NCES’s National Report Card, only 17% of DCPS 8th graders are proficient at math.
After reading DC’s Education ESSA Plan, he sent the following letter of complaint to the US Department of Education. In it, he asks that they consider applying the same standards used in schools and classrooms with significant numbers of white students to every school and each student. Why don’t we do that? Why should we accept year in and year out that Black kids and white kids won’t be treated equally? Long after Brown v Board of Education, racism in DC public schools continues to be baked into the system.
Because of a long history of racist policies and practices, DC’s Black and brown residents experience more job discrimination, inadequate access to health care, and a lack of affordable housing. Using the budget to prevent evictions, adequately fund all public schools, and get health care and cash to those who need it are just a few ways lawmakers can transform DC into a more equitable community where everyone can live well.
For those of us who call the DMV area home, we have the annual OutWrite DC Literary Festival. A project within The DC Center for the LGBT Community’s Center Arts programming, OutWrite DC has been creating space for writers who are non-hetero and trans since 2010.
Not surprisingly, [Covid-19 has] hit communities of color particularly hard. This article was written to help individuals in African-American and Latinx communities deal with the Rona in the event that it enters their homes…
The same false, racist narrative that stole Deon’s boyhood and turned him into a full grown man out for blood is the same narrative we have seen from Mayor Bowser and MPD over and over again…
Black people are allowed to be joyful or feel seen with DC renaming a street after Black Lives Matter. It’s also our responsibility to let you know what we are fighting for, who has the power to change things and that power concedes nothing without demand…
As we approach the 4th Annual Women’s March this Saturday, and especially given our interactions with Women’s March staff and leadership over the last month, it has become apparent, again, that all of our efforts to call you in have failed. You have failed both to fulfill your agreements to acknowledge the harm you have caused, and to complete the reparations you have previously committed to…
On Feb 6, the DC Council had their first vote on the Crimnibus aka Councilmember Pinto and Mayor Bowser’s “Secure DC” Omnibus in their legislative meeting. While this hyper-racist crime bill passed the first vote, HUNDREDS of you called & emailed and PACKED the Council meeting, resulting in some critical harmful provisions being removed from the bill!
These harm reduction amendments are an important win. Unfortunately, many dangerous provisions still remain and the second and FINAL vote is coming up on March 5th. But we know the community pressure is working!
So, please join us and take action to stop the crimnibus!