SPECIAL THIS MONTH
38 Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in the District of Columbia • by Michelle Phipps-Evans. For some, this is an exciting time – baseball in DC. However, before the Nationals, which brought professional baseball back to the city in 2005, the city’s baseball history goes back more than 150 years. | PDF
32 Once and Future Beacon: H.D. Woodson SHS – 1972, 2010 •by Virginia Avniel Spatz. It’s been a short and eventful life for the first home of H.D. Woodson Senior High School. The city’s “only high-rise high school,” on the other hand, is going from concept to demolition in just a few decades. | PDF

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
10 East Washington Calendar | PDF only
18 Bulletin Board • by Peter Vankevich | PDF only
22 Ward News • by David Garber & Virginia Avniel Spatz | PDF
26 The District Beat • by Mark Segraves | PDF only
28 The Numbers • by Ed Lazere | PDF only
30 New Benning Library: Aspect or Obstacle? • by Virginia Avniel Spatz | PDF
32 Once and Future Beacon: H. D. Wilson Senior High School • Virginia Avniel Spatz |
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34 Planned Parenthood’s Teen Health Messengers Celebrate Fifth Anniversary with a Tribute to Ophelia Egypt • by Youth Health Messengers, Opehlia Egypt Program Center | PDF
35 Continuing Egypt’s Legacy in 2008 • by Delores Harris, Youth Health Messenger, Opehlia Egypt Program Center | PDF
36 Meet Your Neighbor: Eleanor Holmes Norton • by Maceo Thomas | PDF

EAST WASHINGTON LIFE
38 Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in DC • by Michelle Phipps-Evans | PDF
40 New Summer Music from DC Residents • by Khadijah Ali-Coleman | PDF
42 Deanwood: A New Book Celebrates this Community’s History • by Karen Lyon |
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44 African American Music Association Celebrating Black Music East of the River •
by Deidre R. Gantt | PDF
46 Amazing Race, Amazing Grace: Rachel’s Story • by B. Michelle Harris McQureerir | PDF

BODY & SPIRIT
48 A Summer of Simplicity • by Rev. Kip Banks | PDF

KIDS AND FAMILY
50 Building Early Math Awareness • by Ed-Genuity Consultants | PDF

REAL ESTATE & FINANCE
52 Eaton Place: Sophisticated Condos at a Bargain Price • by Jillian P. Brown | PDF
54 An Annual Mortgage and Homeownership Checkup • Lewis Smith and Frank Demarais |
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55 Changing Hands • by compiled by Don Denton | PDF only

CLASSIFIEDS
56 The Classifieds | PDF only

THE NOSE
59 The Nose Knows • by Anonymous | PDF only

June 2008 East of the River Cover, Contents and Masthead | PDF only