- “My sense is that my friend, like a lot of my colleagues, is afraid to find out that somebody close to him has also been victimized by the police because knowing that truth pops the bubble of his perception of our shared reality.” [HuffPost]
- A new go-go documentary airing Sunday explores the history of the music and the erasure of Black culture. [Post]
- The stormy, rainy weather will be sticking around this weekend. [WTOP]
- A Black D.C. National Guardsman spoke out after a video of him chanting along with protesters went viral. [WJLA]
- A debate over funding for a Capitol Hill school shuttle forces the neighborhood’s parents to confront their privilege. [Post]
- First, they lost their spring season. Now some local collegiate athletes are losing their entire program. [WCP]
- An incident involving blackface at a 2018 party hosted by a Washington Post cartoonist resurfaces amid current protests. [Post]
- WMATA says Phase Two of construction on the Silver Line is set to begin tomorrow. [WJLA]
- Local Black hospitality publicists assessed restaurants’ social media responses to recent protests. [WCP]
- A new Black-owned butcher in Georgetown has received monetary donations from around the world. [WJLA]
- Washington Post employees will receive a $1,000 bonus as a “thank-you” for working through the pandemic. [Washingtonian]
- McLean-based Mars, Inc. says it will rebrand its Uncle Ben’s rice, acknowledging the racist stereotypes behind the name. [NBC]
- How farmers and vendors of color say the Freshfarm network can immediately make changes towards inclusivity. [WCP]
- New Carrollton elected its first Black mayor. She’s also the city’s first woman mayor, too. [WTOP]
- ICYMI: Prince William County will stop reporting county jail inmates to ICE.
- ICYMI: Former staffers at Alexandria coffee shop Killer E.S.P. allege that the owner sexually harassed them and didn’t take enough COVID protections.
- ICYMI: The D.C. Board of Elections will send every registered voter a mail-in ballot for the November election.
- This Day in DCist: D.C. voters approved Initiative 77, the ballot measure to eliminate the city’s tipped minimum wage.
