Youth Town Hall Budget Meeting
DC Youth We Want To Hear From You! If you are 21 years old or younger and want to share your opinions on what’s happening in your city, then come out & be heard! Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s Youth Town...
View ArticleYouth Education Alliance Using the Media
This Tuesday, June 5, 2012, I will be facilitating a workshop entitled “Use the Media Before It Uses.” The Youth Education Alliance, which recently merged with Empower DC and one of the very few...
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Empower DC’s Summer of Youth
Summer is a time of liberation and growth for youth as it is for movements for justice. Youth are free! You can hear it in the collective shrill at last bell of the year. Youth know instinctively -a...
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Report on the Mental Health of DC’s Youth
“People are just not reaching us where we are at. We want to be reached.”– Washington, D.C. focus group youth participant. In the following audio podcast, radio journalist Netfa Freeman interviews...
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Summer In The City, Ivy City That Is…
Youth from Ivy City from left to right, Stephanie Chloe, Dedrica (Drica) Clyburne, James Batts, Moniya Walker and Santasia (Tay) Scarborough This summer, Empower DC hired several youth from Ivy City to...
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Mayor Gray Must Understand, Our Language is Our Right
Washington, DC – On July 22, 2013 Mayor Vincent Gray, along with a handful of aides and scores of reporters, paid a visit to Petworth with the intention of cracking down on synthetic marijuana and...
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Beat Club Goes To Detroit
On an early morning in the third week of June we packed a mixer, a pair of speakers, a microphone, and five mini-synthesizers into our car. We were on 270 heading west as the sun came up. By late...
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A Day for The Children of Incarcerated Parents and Those At Risk
The 5th Annual Concerned Fathers Public Safety Community Event was organized by Family and Friends of Incarcerated People (FFOIP) on Saturday, August 14, 2010 and was held in River Terrace Park at...
View ArticleYouth Speak Out About the Choice Between Incarceration and Social Services
Grace Ebiasah is an organizer for Different Avenues, a DC nonprofit working to change, improve, and protect the health, rights, and safety of women and girls in the region. She spent an afternoon at...
View ArticleFFOIP Public Safety Community Event
Back by popular demand Family and Friends of Incarcerated People Present The 10th Annual Public Safety Community Event Saturday, August 15, 2015 Noon – 7:00 PM Anacostia Park, 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE...
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Black Lives Matter DC Hosts Intergenerational Community Conversation on Gun...
In the weeks following the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, communities called on their legislators and school administrators to effectively address gun violence. In addition to conversations about gun...
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