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James Wright Jr. is the D.C. political reporter for the Washington Informer 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.

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Dr. Ernest Chrappah, director of DCRA, speaks to the attendees of the "Food for Thought" event in Southeast on Sept. 18. (Courtesy of DCRA)
Posted inLocal Business

Food Entrepreneurs Talk Business Success

by James Wright Jr.September 25, 2019December 21, 2021
Flag of the District of Columbia
Posted inCommunity

Norton-Led Dems Back D.C. Statehood

by James Wright Jr.September 19, 2019December 21, 2021
Burnie Williams runs his family's Chat's Liquors on Capitol Hill. (James Wright/The Washington Informer)
Posted inCommunity, Local Business

Chat’s Liquors Keeps Patrons in Good Spirits

by James Wright Jr.September 18, 2019December 21, 2021
Actor Jeffrey Wright narrates "Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook," a documentary that examines right-wing attempts to undermine the right to vote. (Courtesy photo)
Posted inBlack Experience, Lifestyle

Film Gives Unflinching Look at Voter Suppression in U.S.

by James Wright Jr.September 13, 2019December 21, 2021
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) speaks at the State of Housing in Black America issue forum while panelists Maurice Jourdain-Earl, Nikitra Bailey and Mark Alston look on. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience

Music and Sports Stars Dominate ALC Housing Forum

by James Wright Jr.September 13, 2019December 21, 2021
Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D), National Urban League President Marc Morial, NAACP President/CEO Derrick Johnson, American Medical Association President Patrice Harris, NNPA Columnist Dr. Julianne Malveaux and Dr. Jonetta Cole, president of the National Council of Negro Women, participate in the Congressional Black Caucus National Town Hall on Sept. 12. (Roy Lewis/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience

Black Leaders Say to Remember Past, but Focus on Future

by James Wright Jr.September 12, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inHealth

High Maternal Mortality Rate Among Blacks Alarms D.C. Leaders

by James Wright Jr.September 11, 2019December 21, 2021
Zabrina Dempson is the D.C. Superior Court's administrative leader. (Courtesy of D.C. Superior Court)
Posted inCommunity

Dempson Tapped as First Female D.C. Superior Clerk

by James Wright Jr.September 11, 2019December 21, 2021
Thomas Penny III talks with mentee Arturo Evans at the My Brother's Keeper Summit & Volunteer Fair at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest on Sept. 5. (James Wright/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience, Community

Bowser Carries on Obama ‘Keeper’ Initiative

by James Wright Jr.September 11, 2019December 21, 2021
D.C. Councilman Vincent Gray (second from left) speaks while (from left) Washington Business Journal reporter Sara Gilgore, Dr. Tamarah Duperval-Brownlee, Dr. Hugh Mighty and Wayne Turnage listen at a Sept. 6 panel discussion on hospital services in the District at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel in Arlington, Va.
Posted inCommunity

Gray Wants East End Health Care System

by James Wright Jr.September 11, 2019December 21, 2021

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