New stores to fight city’s food insecurity

A proposed new supermarket in Ward 7 will tackle disparities between the District’s most affluent areas and its most economically deprived.Upcoming new Lidl in Columbia Highest neighborhood. Photo by Sofia Bellucco.“A Lidl, which  will open at Skyland Town Center on Good Hope Road Southeast at the end of 2022, will be the first new grocery […]

Local magazine saved thanks to social media

   Social media has been criticized for its negative effects, but it has saved one D.C. magazine from going out of business at the height of the pandemic. Andréa Butler, editor-in-chief for SESI Magazine. Photo courtesy of Butler.In 2020, Sesi Magazine, the only local teen magazine for Black girls on newsstands, was struggling to survive after […]