The Anacostia Community Museum, a local Smithsonian museum in Ward 8 of D.C. that tells the stories of the local community, is at risk of being absorbed into the National Museum of African American History and Culture due to a $3 million budget cut, but community members are rallying to save the museum.
Author Archives: James Wright Jr.
James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the ×îÐÂÂ鶹ӰÒôÊÓƵ Newspaper. He has worked for the Washington AFRO-American Newspaper as a reporter, city editor and freelance writer and The Washington Post as a copy editor, in addition to reporting for the Informer. Working as a journalist in D.C. for 30-years, Wright has interviewed foreign leaders such as Libya's Moammar Quadafi and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki as well as a number of U.S. Black political leaders. He has traveled to nations such as Libya, Afghanistan, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom and Italy to do his work.
