Category: Washington D.C. News

Only about 17 percent of residents in Ward 7 have a bachelor’s degree or higher. The poverty level for children under 18 is 40 percent. The median household income in this majority-Black ward is about half the amount in Washington, D.C., and three-quarters of the amount in United States overall. But this economic environment didn’t […]

Chancellor Antwan Wilson resigned from leading D.C. Public Schools on Feb. 20, after he was criticized for asking the city’s deputy mayor to transfer his daughter from one city school to another without following proper protocol. The day before his resignation, Wilson went on an attempted name-clearing media campaign, talking to various news outlets to […]

Students at St. Anthony’s Catholic High School, located in the Brookland section of the District of Columbia recently got a double treat. On Feb. 15, students had the chance to talk to an astronaut and that man, Alvin Drew, is a 1977 alumnus of their institution. “I used to sit where you are now and […]

Ward 8 Democrats agreed at a panel on educational deficiencies in the District, that the schools in the ward and all of D.C. are lacking and something must be done now. On Feb. 17, the Ward 8 Democrats held a panel discussion “I Believe the Children Are the Future? A Discussion on the State of […]

Washingtonians are mourning the loss of Peggy Cooper Cafritz, a prominent philanthropist, art collector, activist, and arts education figure who helped found the famed high school, Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Cafritz, 70, died Feb. 18 at a local hospital. The Washington Post reported that she died after suffering complications from pneumonia. Peggy Cooper Cafritz, […]

In a budget the Trump administration deemed “efficient, effective, accountable,” thousands of D.C. students face the risk of losing significant financial aid to attend college. The Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request to Congress included the elimination of the DC Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG). Mayor Muriel Bowser launched #SaveDCTAG as a way to preserve the District’s grant […]

The long-awaited opening weekend of Marvel’s “Black Panther” has given rise to a unique, but temporary, new bar. The Wave USA, a D.C.-based event production company, is transforming a black-owned lounge into a “pop-up bar” modeled after the fictional African nation of Wakanda. The pop-up bar, dubbed “Enter Wakanda,” opened at Red Lounge on the […]

In the midst of Black History Month, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated abolitionist Frederick Douglas’ 200th Birthday by unveiling a newly refurbished portrait of the former slave turned Black educational leader. The unveiling took place at the John A. Wilson Building inside of Bowser’s Ceremonial Room, a space usually used for official meetings. A […]

On Feb. 10, sporting a sweet sassy smile, Nikki Giovanni, spoke powerful words at Busboys and Poets 5th and K, in Northwest Washington, D.C. “My mother died. It has been 10 years.  Mommy died in June, my sister died three weeks later, then my middle aunt died, though you don’t look at it the same, […]

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes has generally had no problem getting re-elected to the U.S. Congress since 1990 but she faces a spirited challenge this year from a political newcomer. Kim Ford, who worked as an assistant secretary of education in the Obama administration and as a dean at the University of the District of Columbia, […]

The Rev. Willie Wilson, the senior pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church located in D.C.’s Ward 8, has been getting water bills that have been outrageous and learned he is not alone. Now, he is leading the fight to get DC Water, the Washington, D.C. area’s agency that supplies and regulates water and sewage […]