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Good morning, DCentric readers! While you were outside enjoying the beautiful sunshine, we were scouring the internet for tasty links. Enjoy!

Black and Latino Single Moms Have Median Wealth of Zero “Researchers from NYU’s Women of Color Policy Network found that single mothers possess 4 percent of the wealth of single dads. Stats on black and Latino single moms are particularly staggering. While white single mothers have a median wealth of $6,000, black and Latino single mothers have a median wealth of zero.” (The Root)

An Army That Looks Like The Country – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic “I think, coming from my background, there was a point when a section of African-Americans were really debating whether they were “American” or not. For my money, that debate is settled and I tend to think it was settled at Port Hudson almost 150 years ago.” (The Atlantic)

Let’s Compare This Crazy Anti-Gay AFA Op-Ed With One “Meanwhile, the majority of the United States moves on, not hating gays, dancing with its lesbian friend Ellen DeGeneres, and salivating at that sexy Twilight vampire battling that shirtless Twilight werewolf, unaware that hate speech is still something a national newspaper feels the need to publish alongside its other opinion writers.” (Wonkette)

Adrian Fenty and Michelle Rhee: We fought for D.C. schools. Now it’s up to you. “…we’ve gone from being the worst-performing school district in the country to a force of 46,000 children who lead the nation in gains — with some of the greatest advances coming from our students of color, students receiving special-education services and students formally learning the English language for the first time.” (The Washington Post)

Neighborhood Responds to Death Outside DC9 “They come to buy cigarettes and beer, and I always ask where they’re from,” Ogbe explained. “Because lots of them, they look like junk people. They look like homeless people. Then they tell me they’re here for a show. They bring in different kinds of people from all over and sometimes they cause problems.” (Washington City Paper)

Fenty Write-In Email Targets Capital Bikeshare “The email, which was generously bolded and incredibly rambling, contained several veiled threats which claimed that if people didn’t write-in Mayor Adrian Fenty during November’s general election, then Vince Gray would be sure to take away D.C.’s shiny new bike-sharing system. It was a Sisyphean task to excerpt anything really substantive from the body of the email, but here’s a shot…” (DCist)