Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

The District of Columbia Public Schools has failed its students and it’s time for officials to acknowledge that, Councilwoman Mary Cheh said at a Feb. 8 hearing in which she and other councilmembers responded to a report that concluded 34 percent of last year’s seniors never should have graduated. Cheh quoted a report that showed […]

“What color is innocence?” asked a student in 11th grade as she drew pictures with crayons and markers. She and five other students were in English class when their teacher, Topher Kandik, told them to draw four images to represent four statements and phrases he said out loud. Later at the end of the activity, […]