Category: Washington D.C. News

Unapologetically Black films that highlight otherwise underrepresented voices are getting their time in the spotlight during Black History Month at Suns Cinema, an art-house theater in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in Northwest D.C. The 17 movies offer diverse slices of the Black experience. “Moonlight,” the Academy-Award winning movie about a bullied Miami teenager struggling with […]

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton wants to continue to serve the residents of the District of Columbia and said she has the energy to do it. Norton, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a delegate in 1990 and has been re-elected with no serious opposition since then. The delegate said […]

A damning report has found that a third of the District’s public high school graduates last year missed too many classes or did not properly make up their classes, findings officials fear could cheapen the value of public high school diplomas from D.C. “We very much are committed to putting out the news, the good […]

African American unemployment at 6.8 percent may be at an all-time low, but Black homelessness nationally remains high at about 40 percent as of December 2017. Homelessness in Washington has been a pressing issue for years. In December 2016, a survey by the United States Conference of Mayors showed the capital had the highest rate […]

First-time candidates for political office in the District of Columbia are learning this election year that campaigning is a tough, time-consuming process, but it does have its rewards. There are a number of first-time candidates for offices ranging from the District’s delegate, to the U.S. Congress, to the ward positions on the D.C. Council. During […]

Deanwood, a Northeast neighborhood in D.C.’s Ward 7, has been a Black enclave for over a century, but in a few years, it will become a part of the District’s gentrifying areas. Deanwood is located in the far Northeast corner of the District and is bounded by Eastern Avenue to the northeast, sharing a border […]

A special needs student at Ballou High School has died 19 days after police said he was attacked in the classroom over a cellular phone. Joevon Smith was hit in the face and body several times at the school on Jan. 10 after he wouldn’t let two people use his cellphone, according to police. The […]

AltaGas, a Canadian company, wants to merge with Washington Gas at the purchase price of $4.5 billion. Washington Gas is the primary producer and supplier of natural gas in the Washington, D.C. region. AltaGas has already gotten approval from national government agencies such as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department […]

The District’s Shiloh Baptist Church hosted its 27th Annual Martin Luther King Memorial Prayer Breakfast. The Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, used the event to call for a new Poor People’s Campaign. In the wake of King’s death in 1968, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy made good on […]

The prospect of Amazon placing its second headquarters in the District of Columbia has city residents enthusiastic about its potential economic and psychological impacts. On Jan. 18, Amazon officials released 20 cities that are on its list for the facility. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) said she is proud the District made the cut out […]