Category: Washington D.C. News

Toni Lanes has bipolar disorder but she says it doesn’t have her. Instead, she is a successful artist that has traveled the world selling her pieces and exemplifying how mental health is not what defines a person. In 2013, Toni Lanes became a client at Art Enables, a nonprofit organization, and was later promoted to […]

The race to replace D.C. Council member Anita Bonds has a millennial feel to it as Aaron Holmes, a 34-year-old resident of Ward 8, has joined the fray to knock off the incumbent next year. Holmes is a well-known political activist who unsuccessfully ran for the Ward 8 D.C. Council seat in 2016. He wants […]

Justin Fairfax is in a tough race to be Virginia’s lieutenant governor, but he is doing everything he can to convince voters in his state that he is ready to be their second most influential political leader. Polls have consistently shown Fairfax leading Vogel by as much as six points and as little as one […]

U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson, a Black woman based in Washington, D.C. and the presiding judge over Paul Manafort’s 12-count indictment, placed President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on house arrest with a $10 million bail for money laundering and other financial crimes. Manafort, and his former business associate Rick Gates, have been brought up […]

The Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is scheduled to host a panel entitled, “The Intersection of Mental Health and the Law” on Nov. 3, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 1301 K Street, NW #1000 East Tower. The event hopes to bring mental health practitioners from different areas to inform, listen, […]

The 25th anniversary of the Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) is scheduled to be located at St. Francis Hall, 1340 Quincy Street NE on Nov. 3 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. These awards are given annually to the authors and illustrators of children and young adult books pertinent to Africa offered in the United […]

The Children’s African Book Awards is scheduled to host a free family festival which will be held at the National Museum of African Art, 950 Independence Ave., SE from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 4. There are various games and workshops planned that are family-friendly. Children will be given the opportunity to spin […]

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder is scheduled to host a Congressional briefing discussing youth suicide and self-injury on Nov. 8 from noon. to 1 p.m. at 2043 Rayburn House Office Building. The meeting entitled “Youth Suicide and Self-Injury, A Crisis of Epidemic Proportions” hope to highlight the growing issue of mental health […]

District residents have split views on the plan offered by U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) to keep the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the next two years. Affordable Care Act The Alexander-Murray plan would not only keep the ACA, otherwise known as Obamacare, subsidies in place for two years, 2018 and […]

She’s 13. An eighth grade student who attends KIPP D.C. Northwest Academy, a D.C. charter school, has used several programs in the school system to help better herself in her educational endeavors. Maya Pinson is a D.C. eighth grader on the move, who excels at academics and extra curricular activities. (Courtesy photo) Maya Pinson, 13, […]

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration is acknowledging that communities East of the river don’t have enough grocery stores. On Oct. 14, D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) led hundreds of residents from his home ward to Ward 8  in an effort to highlight that there are only three full-service grocery stores in Wards 7 […]

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray made it clear that the management at the United Medical Center (UMC) in Ward 8 was subpar and he wants the Bowser administration to do something about it. Vincent Gray represents Ward 7 on the D.C. Council is taking on the Bowser administration to change the management at the United […]