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THE DISTRICTBuilding renamed in
honor o f Marion BarryThe man once known as the
District’s “m ayor for life” has a
city government building named
in his honor: The busy office
building at One Judiciary Square
on Thursday was christened the
Marion S. Barry Jr. Building.
The four-term mayor has been
honored by the city in other ways
since his death in 2014 at age 78.
The summer youth employment
program that he championed
bears his name, and his statue
stands on Pennsylvania Avenue
NW outside the Wilson Building.
But as she dedicated the
building that houses a collection
of city offices, Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) told onlookers,
including Barry’s widow, Cora
Masters Barry, that this honor
seemed especially fitting.
“Marion Barry, the public
administrator, would like his
name on this building even
more,” she said. “You know him as
the brash politician, and too few
people focus on the budget geek
he was.”
The city will a dd a mural inside
the lobby depicting Barry’s life.
Barry’s memorial foundation
sold T-shirts at the ceremony to
raise money for p rojects honoring
his legacy. They were decorated
with a phrase referring to the
youth jobs program: “I got my
first job from Marion Barry.”
Cora Masters Barry said she
hears that sentiment all the time.
“If I w alk out of my house for
five minutes, somebody’s going to
walk up to me and say this,” she
said. “Now you can just point to
the T-shirt.”
— J ulie ZauzmerWoman fatally shot,
2 men wounded in SEA 47-year-old woman was
fatally shot and two men were
wounded by gunfire Wednesday
night in a shooting in Southeast
Washington, D.C. police said.
The vi ctim was identified as
Jeanette Walls, who police said
had no fixed address.
The shooting happened about
10:25 p.m. in the 4300 block of
Wheeler Road SE, in the
Washington Highlands area.
Police said Walls was taken to a
hospital, where she was
pronounced dead. The men,
according to police, were taken to
hospitals with injuries described
as not life threatening.
N o arrests have been made.
H omicides in D.C. are up
18 percent from last year.
— Peter HermannVIRGINIAIdeas sought to replace
Lee statue in D.C.A state panel is soliciting
recommendations on what
should replace Virginia’s Robert
E. Lee statue at the U.S. Capitol.
A virtual hearing by the
Commission for Historical
Statues in the U.S. Capitol is
scheduled to start at 9 a .m. on
Tuesday, news reports said.
The first 80 people who sign up
to speak will have up to
three minutes each.
People can also submit written
comments. T he deadline for those
is Nov. 27.
The Virginia Department of
Historic Resources will present a
list of five finalists, and the
commission will pick one to
recommend to the General
Assembly.
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washingtonpost.com/local/lotteryLOTTERIEStheir donation after one of their
children suggested that the par-
ents blend their interests —
Heather’s expertise in women’s
issues and Jim’s deep knowledge
of Howard.
“The fact that we began this
discussion as a family at the
beginning of the pandemic and
now here we are, post an election
where the vice president-elect is a
Howard alum, is just really in-
credibly inspiring,” Jim Murren
said.
But investing in Black women
is also good business, Heather
Murren said. The country will
need “every asset” to rebuild the
economy when the pandemic
ends.
“It’s incumbent on all of us to
make sure we allow people to
fully realize their potential be-
cause it benefits all of us,” she
said. “Our hope is that this really
is the beginning point. This is
what we hope will become a
model of excellence.”
[email protected]White women and 66 percent for
White men.
Dawuni hopes to tackle those
disparities.
“By the time they finish How-
ard, they will have the skills they
need... to become the leaders we
want them to be,” she said about
future students.
The Center for Women, Gender
and Global Leadership will be
housed on campus, tentatively in
the Louis Stokes Health Sciences
Library, Dawuni said. The school
is planning to hold an official
opening, probably virtually, in
the spring.
Heather Murren, who has been
a longtime supporter of women’s
issues, said she was drawn to
Howard after watching racial un-
rest unfold over the summer, as
well as the disproportionate ef-
fect of the coronavirus on Black
women and other women of color.
She said she was “thinking
through and reflecting on what I
can do.”
The Murrens said they madepolitical science professor at
Howard, will lead the charge. She
has been doing research and ac-
tivism around women’s issues
since she joined the university’s
faculty in 2015, she said.
“We are looking at this center
as part of positioning Howard
University within the global dis-
course on issues relating to wom-
en, gender and masculinity,”
Dawuni said. In addition to pro-
ducing research, she said, the
center will promote community
service, award scholarships,
match students with internships,
and “prepare future leaders who
are gender-conscious and
grounded in Black feminist con-
sciousness.”
For every 100 men promoted
into a managerial positions, just
58 Black women advance into
similar roles, according to a work-
place study by McKinsey & Co.
and LeanIn.org. Women of color
held just 3 percent of C-suite roles
at the beginning of this year,
compared with 19 percent forprograms and underwriting fac-
ulty salaries, Frederick said.
“The focus on Black women is
long overdue,” said Frederick,
add ing that women constitute
70 percent of Howard’s student
body. The center will deal with
the “vexing inequalities” that
Black and minority women face
worldwide, including maternal
mortality and income inequality,
Frederick said.
The announcement comes
days after Howard alum Kamala
D. Harris became the nation’s
first female vice president-elect
and amid a renewed national
focus on racial inequality.
“I think people recognize that
if they invest at Howard and at
other HBCUs that they may be
assisting in the matriculation and
in the development of the next
Kamala Harris or the next Elijah
Cummings or the next Thurgood
Marshall,” Frederick said, using
the acronym for historically Black
colleges and universities.
J. Jarpa Dawuni, an associateBY LAUREN LUMPKINHoward University has re-
ceived a $1 million gift to open a
center devoted to producing gen-
der-based research and promot-
ing Black female leaders, officials
announced Thursday.
The Center for Women, Gender
and Global Leadership will be
one of a handful of academic
centers nationwide designed to
amplify Black and minority wom-
en’s issues, Howard President
Wayne A.I. Frederick said.
The gift from Howard trustee
Jim Murren and philanthropist
Heather Murren will start a mul-
timillion-dollar fundraising cam-
paign to support the center’s en-
dowment — funding academic
THE DISTRICT
Howard gets $1 million to open women’s center
University will produce
research and promote
Black female leadersmoving for his wife’s career is a
unicorn?
Ridiculous. And it doesn’t
make dad feel like what he’s doing
is normal.
“It’s still rel atively uncommon,”
Brad Harrington, the executive
director of the Boston College
Center for Work and Family, told
NPR about the number of stay-at-
home dads. “Depending on whose
numbers you believe, it’s
somewhere between 1 out of 20 or
maybe one out of 15 at-home
parents now is a d ad.”
Not common but still normal.
As our society slowly, haltingly
grinds toward gender parity in
the workplace, we need to get it
into our minds that equality also
has to happen at home, in
partnerships, in families.
A nd by advocating a platform
that encourages men to share
equally in households, to support
their spouses’ ambition, to fight
back against bosses who scoff at
personal leave, to advocate for
family leave and child care and to
smash the crushing patriarchy
that makes such rigid demands
on them as well, Emhoff can make
a lasting impact.
It’s a j ob perfect for a “second
gentleman.” It’ll make him a first,
too.
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Twitter: @petuladBut this is what our nation is
increasingly looking like — what
it needs to look like. We’ve got
41 percent of households with
women as primary breadwinners
and we still act like a dad picking
a kid up from school or a husbandman to be consistently involved in
the Senate Spouses club,” Sen.
Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said of
her husband while speaking at a
National Journal event in 2014.
Bessler joined the meetings as
soon as his wife got to
Washington and immediately
made an impact.
Klobuchar remembers driving
to an event with then-Sen. Claire
McCaskill (D-Mo.) and seeing her
husband walking across the lawn
holding something.
“I yelled out the car window,
and I s aid, ‘What are you doing
with the pink box?’ He yelled
back, ‘It is the Senate spouse club
event. I am going to Jim Webb’s
wife’s baby shower,’ ” Klobuchar
said in a farewell speech to
McCaskill on the Senate floor.
“Claire looked at my husband and
said, in her typical, blunt way,
‘That is the sexiest thing I have
ever seen.’ ”
This is adorable, but it ’s the
kind of thing that frustrates the
stay-at-home dad y’all met at the
top of this column. I w ill admit I
was totally guilty, too — cooing
over how great he was when all he
did was show up for preschool co-
op duty, same as any mom.Neither was John Zaccaro,
husband of Geraldine Ferraro,
whose 1984 campaign for vice
president was dogged by
questions about her family’s
finances. Zaccaro pleaded guilty
to fraud charges right after the
election. Nope, he wasn’t going to
be the poster dude for supportive
spouses either.
How about a man who actually
did serve as a first dude (it has to
be “dude” in Alaska) before his
wife ran for vice president: Todd
Palin?
When more than 3,000 pages
of Todd’s emails went public a
decade ago, it was clear he was all
up in his state’s business, from
judicial and state board
appointments to contract
negotiations with public
employees. They called him an
“unpaid adviser,” but he acted like
more of a mansplaining shadow
governor.
There are congressional
husbands who approach their
spousal roles with traditional
gusto. The Ladies of the Senate
have rebranded themselves as the
Senate Spouses club as Congress
slowly becomes more female.
John Bessler “became the firstproved herself to be a t ough and
capable prosecutor, state attorney
general and fierce senator. It’s
pretty clear that doing a job Dan
Quayle could handle isn’t going to
be a heavy lift for her.
But what her husband is going
to do with his barrier-breaking
role is an intriguing — and
potentially impactful — first.
Supportive husbands content with
being in the shadows of their
prominent wives have existed before.
You just don’t hear about them.
You know Annie Oakley, right?
But what about Frank Butler, the
sharpshooting star of a t raveling
Wild West show? He hit 24 of 25
targets when his extravaganza
rolled into Oakley’s town in 1876.
She got her gun and hit all 25.
They married and Butler stepped
out of her way as Oakley became
the star of the show; her earnings
supported the two of them
throughout their 50-year union.
Or what about Martin D.
Ginsburg, husband to late
Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg? One of the two
recent films about her life, “On
the Basis of Sex,” is also a love
letter to her husband and an
instruction guide on how to be
both supportive and personally
successful in a marriage.
“Most closely,” RBG said, when
she was nominated to the court
by President Bill Clinton in 1993,
“I have been aided by my life’s
partner, Martin D. Ginsburg, who
has been, since our teenage years,
my best friend and biggest
booster.”
Emhoff is well suited to be a
great “second gentleman.” He’s
divorced, but his ex-wife and
Harris are friendly and have
worked tog ether in raising two
kids, who are now adults. He left
his job at a l aw firm this week to
avoid a conflict of interest and to
focus on his new role.
And — the factor that worked
in the Democrats’ favor in this
election — his last name isn’t
Clinton.
I wrote this piece in my head in
2016, imagining Bill Clinton
reprising his time in the White
House in a t otal script flip as “first
gentleman.” But I kept tripping
over his baggage. Not ideal.
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