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College Park Elects Fazlul Kabir, Maryland’s First Muslim Mayor
A member of the City Council, Kabir won a special election over the weekend to fill out the term of former Mayor Patrick Wojahn. He is the first Muslim mayor elected anywhere in Maryland. Continue reading
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A recent Washington Post story included tacos made by Taqueria La Placita in Edmonston, La Michoacana in Brentwood and Taqueria Habanero and Tacos a la Madre in College Park. Continue reading
- Posted in Brentwood, College Park, Hyattsville
- Tagged demographics, La Michoacana, miXt food hall, restaurants, Tacos a la Madre, Taqueria Habanero, Taqueria La Placita
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Investors about spent about $1.2 billion buying and developing new apartments in Prince George’s over the last year, making it the fourth largest market for multi-family housing in D.C. Continue reading
- Posted in Bladensburg, Brentwood, College Park, Edmonston, Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Mount Rainier, Riverdale Park, University Park
- Tagged apartments, demographics, housing
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A newly refurbished and extended one-mile trail allows bicyclists as well as walkers and runners to go along the southern side of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River. Continue reading
- Posted in Brentwood, Mount Rainier
- Tagged bicycling, Brentwood Levee Trail, demographics, history, Northwest Branch, Northwest Branch Trail
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Although Greenbelt was built on former tobacco fields farmed by several Black families and Black construction workers had helped build it, African-Americans were not allowed to apply to move in until the 1960s. Continue reading
- Posted in Greenbelt
- Tagged demographics, history
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Hyattsville was at the forefront of a movement in the 1910s to impose racial segregation block-by-block in U.S. cities, an effort worth remembering this Martin Luther King Day. Continue reading
- Posted in Hyattsville
- Tagged demographics, history
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College Park Considers How to Address Damage to Historically Black Neighborhood
The city of College Park is looking to rectify the damage done to the historically Black community of Lakeland in the 1970s. Continue reading
- Posted in College Park
- Tagged demographics, history, Lakeland
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