
Little Ethiopia Grows Up: One of DC’s biggest immigrant communities steps off … – Washington City Paper (blog)
Dil Belay once supported Adrian Fenty, but now he’s all in for Gray. (Lydia DePillis)
Back in 2002, Daniel Belayneh started the non-profit Ethiopian Community Services and Development Council because he noticed a clear injustice: Two homeless Ethiopian immigrants had frozen to death in the street, and nobody noticed or cared. When a Hispanic man was found dead under similar circumstances, he says, the tragedy made the newspapers and attracted attention from politicians.