Colleen Grablick
- A local organization is teaching essential workers how to de-escalate situations with aggressive anti-mask customers. [NBC 4]
- Projections of the 1963 March on Washington and recent Black Lives Matter protests went up at Martin Luther King Jr. Library. [Twitter]
- Vision-impaired voters in Virginia will now receive electronic ballots, compatible with screen-reading technology. [Post]
- A Montgomery County police officer was sentenced to two years probation for assaulting a detained suspect in 2019. [Post]
- Maryland extended the moratorium on gas, water, and electricity shut-offs until Nov. 15. [WBJ]
- A petition is pushing for Howard University to name its College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman. [WJLA]
- Maryland plans to expand high-speed broadband into the state’s rural areas, but the project will take nearly a year to complete. [Post]
- Black voters hope last week’s March on Washington will motivate more people to head to the polls this November. [Afro]
- The USDA extended its free meal program for students after school leaders warned that some families would go hungry without it. [Post]
- Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced a $4 million initiative to pay legal fees for tenants facing evictions. [WTOP]
- Take a peak at the panda cub’s tiny paws. [National Zoo]
- An 80-person task force started its review of racial bias in Montgomery County’s police department. [WTOP]
- ICYMI: What did last week’s March on Washington mean to longtime Washingtonians and local organizers?
- ICYMI: D.C. is doubling the availability of the opioid overdose medication Naloxone.
- This Day in DCist: More than 500 tombstones were displayed at Marvin Gaye Park as a chilling reminder of overdose deaths in D.C.
