Tasty Morning Bytes – Omega Centennial, “Not with a white” and Black Gentrification in Anacostia
Good morning, DCentric readers! Here are the links we’re perusing today:
Omega Psi Phi brothers celebrate centennial at D.C. birthplace “Indeed, the next four days are a time of fraternity for the brothers, much as it was a hundred years ago when three Howard University students and their faculty adviser established the first black fraternity at an all-black university. The two other all-black fraternities at the time had been founded at white institutions.” (The Washington Post)
His parents said, ‘Not with a white girl’ “I couldn’t fathom that my race could make me the ‘wrong kind of girl’ for anyone. Yes, it was white privilege that blinded me to the fact I might be the bottom of the barrel on someone else’s race card.” (CNN)
Mayor Gray’s Interfaith Council has a Scientologist on it “Guess how many Buddhists, Mormons, Hindus, and Jehovah’s Witnesses there are? Zero.” (TBD.com)
Everybody Loves D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier “A poll released by Clarus Research Group in March puts her approval rating at a cosmic 84 percent…’Who else has an approval rating like that?’ asks political consultant Chuck Thies. ‘Just the Dalai Lama.’” (Washington City Paper)
Black professionals leading the charge of gentrification across Anacostia “Just who is a gentrifier?…Although gentrification in much of the city means an influx of young white professionals, in communities east of the river it’s overwhelmingly young black professionals who are moving in — or, in some cases, moving back.” (The Washington Post)