by dbs | Dec 5, 2024 | Activities, Friends! Newsletter, MLK-Library-Friends
Seasons greetings to all our Friends: MLK Library Friends invites you to its annual meeting on December 12 at 6 pm in the Friends Room on the lower level of Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library at 9th and G Streets NW. Come hear about our plans for next year, and...
by dbs | Dec 2, 2024 | Homelessness
Giacomo Bologna 11/22/2024 5:30 a.m. EST Sinai Hospital filed a lawsuit against a homeless patient for trespassing after the man was medically cleared to leave The homeless man arrived at the emergency room of a North Baltimore hospital on Monday, July 1. He was...
by dbs | Nov 26, 2024 | Homelessness
Kate Ryan | kryan@wtop.com November 25, 2024, 5:33 PM Just in time for Thanksgiving, some formerly homeless families will be celebrating in a brand-new shelter in D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser led the ribbon cutting at the Aston, a former college dormitory near the George...
by dbs | Nov 21, 2024 | Homelessness
Lauren Comito, the executive director of Urban Librarians Unite, has studied the trauma endured by library staff. In September, her organization began offering virtual peer-led support groups for U.S. library workers.Credit…Laila Stevens for The New York Times...
by dbs | Nov 21, 2024 | Homelessness
“They already have us in tents,” said Gwendolyn Shine, 69, right, responding to President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to arrest thousands of homeless people sleeping in American streets and move them to large tent cities. “We’re not criminals,” said Keith Aaron...
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