Category: Washington D.C. News

A Howard University professor is under investigation after he reportedly held a mock slave auction in class. Howard University (Courtesy Photo) Details about the incident first were reported by the Caged Bird, an online magazine that targets readers who are students at historically black colleges and universities. The professor, who is white, was reportedly teaching a lesson on Frederick Douglass’ slave narrative. […]

Students at Southeast Washington, D.C.’s Charles Hart Middle School are trying to raise money to visit China this summer. The fundraising campaign will help 25 students from the Ward 8 school travel to and tour the Middle Kingdom from July 5-13. Hart Middle School eighth grade teacher William McMurtrey said a trip to China will […]

As of March 16, Washington, D.C.’s homicide count stood at 21 for the year, just one shy of last year’s 22 deaths in the same span. A recent burst of violence in Southeast D.C. added to the city’s battle with crime. Two men were killed over the weekend of March 10 and 11 in separate […]

On March 9, 1977, the District of Columbia was caught up in a siege of public buildings that still sends chills down the spine of residents, today. That day, a dozen gunmen seized control of the then District Building, now known as the John A. Wilson Building. The building houses government offices and is the […]

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray (D-Ward 7) wants more physicians to set up their practices in neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. He recently authored legislation to make that happen. Ward 7 Council member Vincent Gray has introduced a bill to bring more doctors to the eastern side of D.C. (AFRO File Photo) On March […]

Enrollment among students in the District of Columbia’s public and public charter schools spiked for the eighth consecutive year to 90,061 students for the 2016-17 academic year. Officials primarily attribute this increase to robust growth in the city’s charter schools. Public Schools in D.C. have experienced an enrollment hike for the eighth year. (Courtesy image/logo) […]

To the dismay of members of the D.C. Council, a D.C., the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) program has been slated to continue for at least another five years. The SOAR legislation provides vouchers to D.C. residents and is the only federally-funded voucher in the country. But what may appear to be a beneficial […]

Just days after District officials announced a rise in hate crimes against Blacks and those within the LGBTQI community, local non-profit Casa Ruby reported a third attack on its premises in two weeks. This assault, caught on surveillance March 12, allegedly shows Andrew Cook, the suspect police took into custody March 13, walking onto the […]

Members and leaders of the District’s teacher’s union recently took to the streets to protest their lack of a pay increase for several years. Thirty members of the Washington Teachers’ Union, led by its president Elizabeth Davis, convened a rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown D.C. on March 3. Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington […]

Andrew McPhatter was fatally shot in Southeast D.C. on March 1. (Courtesy Photo) A recent wave of violence in Southeast, D.C. left one man dead after six shootings took place in a span of seven days. Six people were shot along Wheeler Road and one was murdered between Feb. 23 and March 1 as D.C. […]

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), and Delaware’s U.S. Sen. Tom Carper held a news conference on March 1 to announce that a bill granting the residential and commercial areas of the District of Columbia statehood was introduced and based on a plan used […]

As lawmakers debate the Affordable Care Act replacement in Congress, local pastors condemned the GOP version as being detrimental to the poor and elderly. Rev. Graylan Hagler Rev. Simeon Corum, a pastor at Goshen Worship Center in Forestville, Md., said he looked intently at his TV screen when Dr. Tom Price, Secretary of the US […]