Category: Washington D.C. News

It’s time to do more than talk about the Black and brown people whom Kelsey Coleman contends are getting pushed out of the rapidly gentrifying District. Now is the time for action, the 16-year-old said. Coleman made her comments Feb. 8 at a seminar with students and adults that centered on housing discrimination in the […]

With an influx of students varying in age, race, gender, and body type, Bikram Hot Yoga studios are some of the most inclusive places for yogis to lay their mats in the Washington D.C. region. At many yoga studios throughout the city, Kendra Dibinga is the sole Black person in the room. With her Bikram […]

Despite making up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, Black Americans continue to be the most likely group to be targeted and killed by police. A 2017 police violence report found that Black people were more likely to have been unarmed and less likely to be threatening someone when killed by police. As of […]

Brazil Diggs, an Eastern Senior High School student, dreams of becoming a professional dancer. On Feb. 2, the 16-year-old asked professional athletes and women in sports if her “frenemies would eventually try to worm their way back into her life” and ride her coattails. “I feel that if I became famous, they would want to […]

Though D.C. lost its “Chocolate City” moniker several years ago, city leaders say they’re working to ensure African-American residents can not only live in the city, but prosper. On Feb. 24 at noon, Mayor Muriel Bowser and multiple city agencies, including the Mayor’s Office on African-American Affairs, are hosting an event focused on the advancement […]

Brookland Manor is set to be re-developed into a more upscale housing complex and residents have mixed feelings about that. Brookland Manor is a 20-acre, 19-building housing community that is located at the corner of Rhode Island Ave., N.E. and 14th Street., N.E. in Ward 5. Brookland Manor is located close to the economically-booming Rhode […]

As the country remembers the centennial celebration of the United States’ involvement in World War I, and honors African American participation in Times of War, Ryan Reft, co-curator of the Echoes of the Great War exhibition, will take guests on a tour of the activism and aspirations of African American service personnel during World War […]

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 […]