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Stories from the February 23, 2009, Print Edition

Mimicking minstrels

by Marisa Kabas

With his face coated in black paint and his mouth encircled in red lipstick, Omari Daniels harkens back to an often-forgotten and racist practice in American history.

City Lights fade to dark

by Jennifer Tchinnosian
Hatchet Reporter

Eighteen-year-old Eric Fortune-Epps wants to go to GW so he "can get a good job and have a better life," but he does not even know if he can make it through his senior year of high school.

Group empowers black men

by Meghan O' Keefe
Hatchet Reporter

Statistics show that black men have the lowest retention rate on campus within the last six years - something the BMI hopes to change.