Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. Anacostia River, who? The Anacostia River, often called the “forgotten river,” flows from Prince George’s County in Maryland to the Potomac River....

Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. Evelyn Hampton, a D.C. middle school teacher, removes condoms, needles and occasionally human feces from the front of her K Street home. “They don’t...

Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. In 1998, Wayne Turner, longtime HIV/AIDS activist, lost his partner Steve Michael to AIDS. Turner brought Michael’s body to the White House as an act of...

Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. On Sept. 26, 2016, celebrities, politicians, activists and health care professionals gathered to celebrate the opening of a Planned Parenthood Health Center...

It’s the unruly students in the corner of a classroom, the ones who tell fart jokes instead of math answers.

This is not what she signed up for, the spotlight brightly shining down, glistening off her bikini, as she struts flirtatiously.

More money, more problems. 

How organizations work to erase the stigma and reduce rates