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The Blizzard of 2010

The Blizzard of 2010

The Blizzard of 2010 - An abandoned shovel lies in the middle of Mayfair Road in Laurel, Md. after futile attempt by a resident to shovel more than two feet of snow that fell across the Washington a...

Winter Scene

Winter Scene

The winter storm that hit the Washington region, Fri., Feb. 5, created a serene wintery scene at Oxon Run Park in Southeast. Click here for more images... Winter Storm Photos by Denise Rolar...

Mission Haiti - Fear, Misinformation Hinder Aid

Mission Haiti - Fear, Misinformation Hinder Aid

A Haitian child shows off a Lifesaver candy given to him by Evangelist Jacobs. “He was so happy to have that piece of candy that he ran around with it showing it to others,” Jacobs said. ...

Jobs Center Opens for Business at St. Elizabeths

Jobs Center Opens for Business at St. Elizabeths

Dave Northington, of Southeast, sits in the Opportunties Center waiting area with his two-year-old daughter Zuri. Finding permanent employment, he said “has been kind of tough.” Photo by Victor...

Inner City Church Raises $1 Million to Support Outreach Ministries

Inner City Church Raises $1 Million to Support Outreach Ministries

Dwight Ellard, Alfred Holston, Maggie Wilson, Bank of America official Pattie Nobels, Archbishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr., Co-Pastor Susie Owens, Verneka Roberts, Bishop T. Cedric Brown and Richard Del...

As Obama Gives His First State of the Union: Blacks Remain Upbeat About His Agenda

As Obama Gives His First State of the Union: Blacks Remain Upbeat About His Agenda

President Barack Obama waves to attendees as he concluded his first State of the Union Address. Vice President Joseph Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) sat behind the president al...

Ellington Community Fights to Keep School in Georgetown

Ellington Community Fights to Keep School in Georgetown

Jack Evans Wants Ellington to become Black History Duke Ellington School of the Arts principal Rory Pullens had more than auditions and admissions tests to deal with, Mon., Jan. 18, when he re...

Judith Jamison Celebrates 20 Years As Ailey Company’s Artistic Director

Judith Jamison Celebrates 20 Years As Ailey Company’s Artistic Director

Judith Jamison, artistic director for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, (left) accepted Vice President Joseph Biden and Dr. Jill Biden’s invitation to visit the Vice President’s residence...

Whitman-Walker Clinic to Observe National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Whitman-Walker Clinic to Observe National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

H1N1 for Seniors Kathy Greenlee, Department Health and Human Services (HHS) Under Secretary for Aging, receives an H1N1 vaccine after delivering a message to the seniors at the Congress Heights Wel...

American Heart Association, 100 Black Men of America Create partnership for stroke education campaign

American Heart Association, 100 Black Men of America Create partnership for stroke education campaign

(DALLAS, Feb. 1, 2010) — The American Heart Association has partnered with 100 Black Men of America, Inc. to raise health awareness and promote initiatives that educate African American...

Liberia's President Sirleaf to Seek a Second Term in 2011

Liberia's President Sirleaf to Seek a Second Term in 2011

Africa's first democratically elected woman president, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Courtesy Photo (GIN) - Africa's first democratically elected woman president, Liberian Presid...

Virginia Commonwealth Student Crowned Miss America

Virginia Commonwealth Student Crowned Miss America

Virginia Commonwealth student Caressa Cameron was crowned Miss America during the 2010 Miss America Pageant, Saturday Jan. 30 in Las Vegas.Courtesy Photo Caressa Cameron, a broadcast journalis...

Washington Informer - Microsoft Diversity ad

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Washington Nationals Seek to Increase Fan Base in Prince George’s County

Washington Nationals Seek to Increase Fan Base in Prince George’s County

The Washington Nationals Dream Foundation donated $5,000 to the Forestville Boys...

Wizards Lose to Clippers, 92-78

Wizards Lose to Clippers, 92-78

“Anytime I lose a game it gets to me. I don't care if you have the best record...

Bowie State Hoops

Bowie State Guard Duke Crews goes in for a lay up over St. Augustine’s Chris Jordan...

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Wizards Pick Up Much Needed Victory

Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Martin scored 23 points in his team’s loss to the...

Georgetown Defeats Seton Hall

Track and Field

Atlanta beats Wizards 94-82 for third straight win

Capitals beat Panthers 5-4 in shootout

Hill, White to be inducted in MEAC Hall of Fame

The Black College Brotherhood

More Wizards speak to authorities about gun case

Pistons beat Wizards 99-90 to end 13-game slide

Lightning beat Caps

Redskins offensive line coach Joe Bugel retires

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BRIEFS

Memorial Service for Dr. James E. Cheek A memorial service for former Howard...

The Religion Corner

The Religion Corner

Lyndia Grant “For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its...

Inner City Church Raises $1 Million to Support Outreach Ministries

Dwight Ellard, Alfred Holston, Maggie Wilson, Bank of America official Pattie...

HOROSCOPES

HOROSCOPES Feb 4 - 10 ARIES A party or gathering with friends from the past...

“Devil’s Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes”

“Devil’s Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes” by...

Judith Jamison Celebrates 20 Years As Ailey Company’s Artistic Director

Soul Singer Pendergrass, Dead, 59

View Point - Jan 28, 2010

The Costs of Incarceration

Gregory Fasts for Haiti

Religion Corner

HOROSCOPES Jan 28 - Feb 3

Do Blacks Only Earn Awards for Negative Roles?

Actress, Comedian Mo’Nique Wins Golden Globe

A King Celebration in Song

Word of the Week
WI Staff   
Thursday, January 14, 2010
28th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee

Students across the District are preparing to compete in the 28th Annual Washington Informer Spelling Bee in March.
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Word of the Week -

indelible -

in-del-uh-buhl – adjective- mpossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent: indelible ink. 2. Making a mark not easily erased or washed away: an indelible pen for labeling clothing. 3. Unable to be forgotten; memorable: an indelible memory.




oblige -

[uh-blahyj] - [no alternate pronunciation(s)] - a verb; constrain (as another or oneself) by physical, moral, or legal force :put under binding agreement to do or to forbear from doing something.

Use in a sentence: The new rules oblige students to wear prescribed uniforms to school. Ramon plans to protest the new rules that oblige him to take out the trash.

[Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, from Latin obligāre : ob-, to; see ob- + ligāre, to bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.]



quarantine \ kwawr-uh n-teen \ - a noun; a regulation restraining a ship from physical connections with the shore while suspected of offering a threat of contagion.

Use in a sentence: If it were it not for the quarantine, the port city might have experienced an outbreak of a deadly strain of influenza. The passengers recounted the harrowing days of the cruise ship’s subjection to quarantine, when they were forced to watch a hairy chest contest while listening to a calypso band under the tropical sun.

Origin: 1600–10; <It quarantina, var. of quarantena, orig. Upper Italy (Venetian): period of forty days, group of forty; derivative of quaranta forty> ≪ L quadraginta>
 

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