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SuperShuttle Driver: Most Drivers Work 24 Hours A Day, Something Worse Will Happen If We Ignore These Signs “When drivers are waiting for a fare, they stop at gas stations. It was there where five drivers told us they regularly work 24 hour shifts. One said he “works like a slave” 100 hours a week to bring home…only $700. He said the rest of it goes to pay SuperShuttle’s fees.” (WUSA Washington, DC)

Fewer principals flee from D.C. schools “On Monday, 24 of about 125 school principals will start in D.C. Public Schools, replacing leaders who fled the system or whom school officials said weren’t making the grade. That’s fewer than the 30 replacements needed last school year and the 26 the year before that.” (Washington Examiner )

Actor Wendell Pierce Takes To Twitter To Talk About ‘The Help’ “Pierce said his mother was hurt and insulted by the film, because her experience was, in fact, significantly worse than what was portrayed in the film (what he was referring to as ‘Jim Crow lite). ‘My mother said it was a good story,’ he said, ‘but she knows a different reality.’” (npr.org)

Minority Report: White Is The New Black (In Southeast Anyway) “Do I think it must be uneasy for some (see, didn’t say all) white folks to go from ‘majority rules’ to ‘Why is everyone looking at me?’ Sure. Do I think that is any different than what black folks have been experiencing in America for like forever? Nope. Welcome to our world (or a least a teeny tiny fraction of it). (Congress Heights On The Rise)

March Held to Honor Mississippi Hate Crime Victim “Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith says that seven teenagers left a party together with the intention of finding a black victim to assault. Anderson was the first black man the group saw upon exiting the highway, and they began to attack him in a motel parking lot. In the end, Deryl Dedmon, 18, allegedly ran over Anderson and is being charged with murder.” (The Root)