https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:28:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/veterans-honored-with-housing-and-haircuts/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:09:47 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/veterans-honored-with-housing-and-haircuts/ Veterans Day The D.C. Housing Authority treated provided veterans with complimentary lunch, housing and homeownership services, health screenings, job opportunities, manicures and haircuts. Photo by Cheriss May | Howard University News Service WASHINGTON — Vincent Wigfall served four tours of duty in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War.  Like thousands of veterans who served in that divisive war and others most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, he came back a changed man. Through tears, he told how the effect of killing and seeing friends killed made him angry and made his adjustment to civilian life difficult. He was homeless for]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/not-trick-or-treat-trunk-or-treat/ Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:19:00 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/not-trick-or-treat-trunk-or-treat/ Nicole Luke's car design. Photo by Brelaun Douglas, HU News Service. WASHINGTON – It was Halloween night, and tiny goblins and ghouls, witches and pirates scurried along the streets of southeast Washington. However, they weren’t headed door to door.  Instead, they were headed car trunk to car trunk. Trunk of Treat had come to Anacostia.  This year, residents joined a slow growing trend across the nation in cities from Sioux Falls., S.D., to Detroit to Johnson City, Tenn., in which adults bring their vehicles to a parking lot or other location where children go from vehicle to vehicle collecting treats and]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/d-c-residents-wary-of-mayors-criminal-justice-proposals/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:20:35 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/d-c-residents-wary-of-mayors-criminal-justice-proposals/ https://hunewsservice.com/news/community-says-children-of-prisoners-also-punished/ Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:06:03 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/community-says-children-of-prisoners-also-punished/ ScholarCHIPs  reciepetents and fouder Yasmine Arrington. Photo courtesy of ScholarCHIPS WASHINGTON — Yasmine Arrington grew up like most of the other children in her neighborhood, but one part of her life that she kept mostly locked away, one that she says caused her lots of pain, embarrassment and financial struggles. For most of her life, her father was locked away in a Georgia prison while she lived in Washington.  And later, because he was in prison, she and her brothers ended up being raised by their grandmother instead of their mother or father. Arrington is a part of a growing]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/southeast-residents-want-wary-of-guardian-angels/ Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:44:39 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/southeast-residents-want-wary-of-guardian-angels/ https://hunewsservice.com/news/caucus-explores-black-women-behind-bars-2/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:46:59 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/caucus-explores-black-women-behind-bars-2/ Prison Reform A diverse array of femal criminal justice experts cslled for changes to the system at CBC. Photo by Brelaun Douglas WASHINGTON — Darlene Mathis-Gardner is part of what some say is a shocking statistic.  Mathis-Gardner, who served 13 months in federal prison,  is part of the 800 percent increase in the number of African-American woman being locked up in America over the past 30 years. And like so many of those women, most convicted of non-violent offenses, Mathis-Gardner suffered from many of the afflictions associated with incarceration – shame, family dissolution, employment difficulties, mental issues and more. Mathis-Gardner]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/caucus-explores-black-women-behind-bars/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:46:16 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/caucus-explores-black-women-behind-bars/ "Black Women in the Criminal Justice System" panelists. Photo by Brelun Douglas WASHINGTON — Darlene Mathis-Gardner is part of what some say is a shocking statistic.  Mathis-Gardner, who served 13 months in federal prison,  is part of the 800 percent increase in the number of African-American woman being locked up in America over the past 30 years. And like so many of those women, most convicted of non-violent offenses, Mathis-Gardner suffered from many of the afflictions associated with incarceration – shame, family dissolution, employment difficulties, mental issues and more. Mathis-Gardner joined dozens of others last Wednesday at the Congressional Black]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/community-gets-nba-teams-economic-boost/ Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:38:56 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/community-gets-nba-teams-economic-boost/ Mayor Muriel Bowser, Councilwoman LaRuby May, ward 8 community members and NBA officials celebrate new arena agreement.  Photo by Brelaun Douglas, HUNS  WASHINGTON—Just as few blocks from Congress Height Metro Station, on the site of St. Elizabeth’s, a former mental hospital, a new day is coming, according to city officials and civic leaders., The aged campus will be turned into a new state-of the-art WNBA arena for the Washington Mystics women’s basketball team and training facility for the Washington Wizards, its male counterpart.  Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 8 Councilmember LaRuby May made the announcement Wednesday, Sept. 16, to the]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/hundreds-walk-to-stomp-out-sickle-cell-disease-3/ Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:30:45 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/hundreds-walk-to-stomp-out-sickle-cell-disease-3/ September is National Sickle Cell Awarenss Month. Photo Courtesy of SOS Walk WASHINGTON — The vast majority of the more than 700 people that had gathered on the National Mall in the heart of the nation’s capital had never met Ibrahim Kargbo.  It’s safe to assume that most of them have never even heard the name. Still, they came from across the country- Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Kentucky- to walk this past weekend in the rain to help him and so many like him. Kargbo, 28, has sickle cell disease, a debilitating, life-threatening blood disorder that affects over]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/hundreds-walk-to-stomp-out-sickle-cell-disease-2/ Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:28:10 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/hundreds-walk-to-stomp-out-sickle-cell-disease-2/ September is National Sickle Cell Awarenss Month. Photo Courtesy of SOS Walk WASHINGTON — The vast majority of the more than 700 people that had gathered on the National Mall in the heart of the nation’s capital had never met Ibrahim Kargbo.  It’s safe to assume that most of them have never even heard the name. Still, they came from across the country- Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Kentucky- to walk this past weekend in the rain to help him and so many like him. Kargbo, 28, has sickle cell disease, a debilitating, life-threatening blood disorder that affects over]]>