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Nicole Thomas's added another trophy to her cabinet on Sunday night with victory in the inaugural Tobago carnival TUCO calypso competition at the Shaw Park Cultural Complex.

With a mother who struggled with heavy substance use, Rodney Stotts grew up in southeast Washington during the crack epidemic. By early adulthood, he reflected his circumstances – dealing drugs and on course to cross up with law enforcement, he says. Then, by accident, he found work with raptors, rehabilitating injured birds of prey and using them for environmental education at Earth Conservation Corps, a nonprofit then focused on cleaning the notoriously polluted Anacostia River. Why We Wrot...