Washington City Paper: Contents for Apr. 18

Holy Rolling
Archbishop George Stallings is putting race into the race to represent Ward 6.

Cover Story

The last time a black politician told white Washingtonians to "get over it," he at least had the benefit of knowing he had won the election. At an April 1 candidate forum at Eastern Senior High School, the Rev. George Augustus Stallings Jr. tells audience members who have a problem with his candidacy to "get over it"—almost a full month before the April 29 special election for the Ward 6 D.C. Council seat.

What may seem like rhetorical recklessness is part of the plan—Stallings knows exactly what he is doing. As a black man who took on the Roman Catholic Church in 1989 over its racial dynamics and claims to have won, the 49-year-old Anacostia cleric is happy to become a lightning rod on race. Stallings spends most of his time at the Ward 6 forum talking about blacks, whites, and the color of politics in Washington—doing his damnedest to make it the loudest issue in the campaign.

"There is a great racial divide in Washington, D.C.," Stallings proclaims, draped in a purple Nehru suit with a kente stripe, his voice drumming along in an intense preacher's cadence. "We need to learn how to live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools. We have to level the playing field. That's the only way we can achieve this. We cannot have this disparity in Ward 6. We need to come together to talk about race."... Continued

Issue of Apr. 18 - 24, 1997

News and Features

Holy Rolling
Archbishop George Stallings is putting race into the race to represent Ward 6.
Cover Story By Tom Stabile
Safety in Numbers
The mayor's super security force may be the mightiest in the land.
The City By Amanda Ripley
Bitter Sweets
Ed Jackson has encountered a particularly hostile business environment.
The City By Brett Anderson
Easy Riders
The City By Alan Green
The New Prohibition
D.C.'s liquor task force has a message for city bars: The party's over.
The City By Jason Cherkis
Comfortably Numb
WGAY returns to the easy-listening womb.
The City By Eddie Dean
A to Zenon
The Mail By Trevor J. Orsinger
Cavalier Attitude
The Mail By Darius B. Withers
Multiculture Shock
The Mail By Bonnie J. Morris and Ph.D.
Bootleg Moonshine?
The Mail By Adam Goldstein
Ode to Joy
The Mail By Aric Vance
A Tale of Two Cities
The Mail By Steve Thompson
Star-Crossed
The Mail By Jennifer Cook
Girl Talk
The Mail By Susan Shrum

Columns

The Odds of March
Cheap Seats By Dave McKenna
CityDesk
City Desk
Treadwell's ANC Job Corps
Loose Lips By Ken Cummins
Distinguished Korndog
Paper Trail By David Carr

Eats

Hiding in Plain Sight
Young & Hungry By Brett Anderson

Movies

Cat and Mouse
Film Review By Arion Berger
Kevin Smith Chases a Comeback
Talking Pictures By Mark Jenkins
Corbin Fever
Videocrity By Dave Nuttycombe
Children in Nature
Film Review By Mark Jenkins

Music

Squirrel Bait
Music Review By Glenn Dixon
Beethoven: Overtures
Music Review By Joe Banno
Skylarking
Music Review By Christopher Porter
Fantastic Spikes
Music Review By Michael Wiener
Blue Sky, Hold the Axes
Music Review By Rickey Wright

Theater

Arts and Events

Gettin' Serviced
Artifacts By Christopher Porter
On the Lamb
Artifacts By Karyn-Siobhan Robinson
Women Without Men
Books By Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Moody Blues
Books By Scott Morris
Universal Joint
Tracey Lee, the first major-label signing from Howard's RNF collective, is on his way.
Arts By Ta-Nehisi Coates