Category: Washington D.C. News

Capital Pride alliance is hosting their annual Pride Celebration from June 11-12. Events include the Pride Parade on June 11 at 4:30 p.m.  The parade will begin at the intersection of 22nd & P Streets near DuPont Circle. On June 12 , the Pride Festival, Pennsylvania Ave., NW, between 3rd and 7th Sts., NW, will […]

The C. Delores Tucker Legacy Chapter of the Association of the Study of African American Literature and History (ASALH) will hold a fundraising event June 12 at Bus Boys and Poets, 1025 5th Street NW at 5:30 p.m. Malaak Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz will be the guest narrator. The event will […]

Step Afrika!, an international dance company based in Washington, D. C., is commemorating 21 years of dance and educational youth empowerment with a fundraising event. The Step Afrika! VIP Gala will be held on June 9 at Dock 5 Union Market, 1309 5th St. NE., at 7 p.m. Step Afrika! is a nonprofit dance company […]

Despite a hotly contested debate between District Mayor Muriel Bowser and Metro executives, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) begins its SafeTrack repair and replacement program this weekend. Metro released its revised scheduled for almost a year of maintenance work that will require trains to share a track or take entire stretches of track […]

A bill to increase the minimum wage to $15 was sent to the full D.C. Council after a committee unanimously approved it on June 1. The bill, which was proposed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), would take effect in 2020 if passed by the council. Fourteen other states have increased minimum wages at the […]

Several professionals, varying in ethnicity, attended the first Vote It Loud Inaugural Multicultural Media Correspondents dinner May 26 at the National Press Club in D.C. Jaime Foxx, Rep. Yvette Clark (D-N.Y.), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and several media professionals were honored at the event.

Kenyan McDuffie wants a new homeless shelter on Rhode Island Avenue. (AFRO File Photo) D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie (D-Ward 5) proposed that a District-owned homeless shelter be placed on the Rhode Island Avenue thoroughfare. That proposal has drawn strong support and opposition in his ward. McDuffie revealed 1700 Rhode Island Avenue, N.E. as the […]

A middle-aged man was injured by an off-duty police officer in Northeast D.C. May 29 after trying to steal a bag of crab legs, according to reports. Anhtuan Phu Pham, 47, was shot by Theodore Dyson, a 26-year veteran of the police force, who was working as a security guard in a Giant Food Store […]

Advocates of the Second Amendment celebrated an announcement May 26 that struck down the District’s gun law requirement to show “good reason” to get a permit to carry a concealed firearm.  However, the celebration may be short lived as city attorneys filed an immediate appeal. In a ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, […]

D.C. Council member Jack Evans (Ward 2) is poised to represent D.C. at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. (AFRO File Photo) Democrats in the District of Columbia selected delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention scheduled for July 25-28 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. As part of the platforms, several political leaders said […]

In two separate skirmishes at the D.C. Central Detention Facility, five inmates sustained stab and puncture wounds from homemade knives and other weapons on May 26. According to Sylvia Lane, a corrections spokeswoman, three of the men were taken to hospitals and two were treated by a prison doctor, she said. None of the wounds […]

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) advocates for the District in the U.S. House of Representatives. House Republicans turned back a local effort to loosen federal control over the District’s budget on May 25. Lawmakers voted 240 to 179 to approve H.R. 5233, a bill that stipulates that the District does not have the authority to […]