Category: D.C. Community

The African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, located on 12th Street, N.W., has begun a transition to the Grimke School Building – which is adjacent to the Civil War Monument – after receiving a $5 million capital improvement grant from the city. Although museum officials hoped to enter the new 10,000-square-feet facility by September, […]

One of the winning programs in the 2010 ING Unsung Heroes awards competition was submitted by Dr. Alesia Slocumb-Bradford, a teacher at Jefferson Middle School in Washington, D.C. She is one of only 100 winners across the country that are going back to school with a $2,000 ING Unsung Heroes grant, which identifies her as […]

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) recently sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan after hearing complaints at “Norton in Your Neighborhood” community meetings about inconveniences when the Secret Service secures a facility or neighborhood. “As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, I fully understand that security concerns necessitate that […]

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, the March of Dimes and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield joined forces at the Verizon Center during a recent Washington Mystics game. The groups participated in a massive diaper drive and collected over 21,000 diapers for Stork’s Nest, a prenatal education and incentive program for low-income women maintained by Zeta Phi Beta, one […]

Several organizations have joined forces to sponsor the 2010 tour stop of the BET Foundation’s (BETF) Women’s Health Symposium, a day-long event that brings Black women and their families together for health education, fitness, entertainment and more. The day’s events will include a morning fitness warm-up and a fitness demonstration session, a “Hoop It Up […]

Bowie State University, one of Maryland’s leading historically Black institutions, continues to work toward becoming a key research school with gains in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The school’s faculty and students recently took center stage in a published brochure that describes the STEM opportunities available at the Prince George’s County school. “This brochure […]

A promising local student, StarQuasha Spears of the District, has received a full-tuition undergraduate scholarship at the University of Phoenix thanks to educator Stephanie Day, a teacher at Friendship Public Charter School. Spears is a senior at Anacostia High School and received the 2010 Teaching It Forward scholarship sponsored by the University of Phoenix for […]

Back to school means seeing friends, catching up and wearing new clothes, which is fun and exciting for kids. But for parents, back-to-school shopping, planning and scheduling can be stressful. If you plan ahead and involve your children in the process, you will save money and have the opportunity to teach some valuable life skills […]