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Our Spotlight of the Month for the month of May 2011 is the Honorable Kwame Brown, who was first elected to the At-Large seat of the District of Columbia’s City Council in 2004 and is currently serving as its 7th Chairman.  We will talk with Chairman Brown about his life’s journey, his personal interests and his…

Happy New Year to everyone!  We truly hope your holiday season was an enriching and enjoyable one, and we wish you all a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. To bring in 2012, we are spotlighting someone whom I have known for some 30 plus years.  She is Ms. Lynn Brantley, and she is President and…

1940 – 2014 For our November Spotlight of the Month, we have the law firm of Patton Boggs, which is one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, and Destiny – Pride is honored with the privilege of interviewing one of its early partners, Mr. Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. In addition, we will converse with Secretary Rodney…

Our spotlight for the month of February is Mr. David A. Berns, the Director of the DC Department of Human Services.  Mr. Berns graciously honored Destiny – Pride recently by participating in our 2011 Toys for Tots Holiday Toy Giveaway Kickoff on last month.  There, he shared with us, and others who were there, his vision…

Our Spotlight of the Month for the month of April 2011 is Rev. Catherine Boddie Bego, who has been on the frontline of providing community service in the Washington, DC area for numerous years. She devoted many years at the DC Government’s Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA), managing a program to battle alcohol and…

Our Spotlight of the Month for the month of June 2011 is Dr. Valoria Baylor, Principal of Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, located in Washington, DC. We will talk with her about her tenure there, and get her perspectives on where we are as it relates to the challenges faced by the school system…

Our spotlight for the month of December 2011 is Captain 1 Willie Bailey, Public Affairs/Community Outreach Officer for the Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department.  Captain Bailey works out of the Fairfax County Penn Daw Fire & Rescue Station (Fairfax County Station 411), located in Alexandria, Virginia.  For 14 years, he has supported the Fairfax County community and vicinity,…

Our Spotlight for the month of September 2012 is Ms. Gail Avent, the Founder and Executive Director of the Total Family Care Coalition, a 501(c)(3) organization located in Southeast, Washington, DC. We will talk with Ms. Avent about her involvement in the human services field and what it was that inspired her to embark upon the…

Our spotlight for the month of August 2012 is Rev. Vincent E. Allen, Pastor of Upper Room Baptist Church, located in Washington, DC. Rev. Vincent Allen is the son of the late Rev. Dr. Willie B. Allen, Sr., a well-respected and prominent leader who was the church’s founder and first pastor, serving from 1957 to 1994.…

March 2013 marked the Third Anniversary of the enactment of the Affordable Health Care Act, the federal health care law that reforms the United States’ health care system. Beginning in January 2014, the health care industry as we now know it will be a thing of the past, and our Spotlight for the Month of…