Profile - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Fri, 10 Mar 2023 20:05:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Profile - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Jason Reynolds Is the Bard of Black YA Fiction. Now He’s Written a Totally Different Kind of Book. https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/03/27/jason-reynolds-is-the-bard-of-black-ya-fiction-now-hes-written-a-totally-different-kind-of-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jason-reynolds-is-the-bard-of-black-ya-fiction-now-hes-written-a-totally-different-kind-of-book Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:00:45 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1066343 Jason Reynolds arrives for breakfast at the Busboys and Poets on V Street one winter Saturday, he looks, atypically for a writer, like a model—black Saint Laurent coat and boots, black Rag & Bone jeans, silver 1960 Rolex GMT-Master. (Luxury watches are his new collecting obsession.) On his fourth finger, though, is possibly the cheapest […]

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Meet an Amazing Blind Man Raising Blind Triplets https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/09/07/meet-amazing-blind-man-raising-blind-triplets-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-amazing-blind-man-raising-blind-triplets-2 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 11:00:32 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=202557 On May 22, 2010, Leo, Nick, and Steven had pancakes for breakfast. The date is as easy for the triplets to remember as their birthday. Because on that particular Saturday, a visitor was coming, a man named Ollie Cantos. Ollie had something in common with the brothers. He was also blind. A government attorney, Ollie […]

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60 Years Ago, a Local Musician Wrote a Song to Encourage DC Residents to Vote https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/06/14/amos-ledbetter-dc-voting-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amos-ledbetter-dc-voting-song Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:42:07 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=194443 In 1956, residents of the District of Columbia were able to vote in a presidential primary for the first time in 82 years. They couldn’t vote in a presidential election–that change wouldn’t come until the 1961 ratification of the 23rd Amendment. Still, activists and community leaders began to urge citizens to take ownership of their say in the policies […]

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Profile: Gen. Larry Spencer, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/02/28/its-rare-to-find-a/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-rare-to-find-a https://www.washingtonian.com/2013/02/28/its-rare-to-find-a/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:32:46 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/dead_drop/defense-department/its-rare-to-find-a.php It's rare to find a military brat who spent his childhood years living in one place. It's rarer still that the place is Washington, DC.  Gen. Larry Spencer, the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force, was born...

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