Category: Washington D.C. News

A Montgomery County, Md. Police officer take pictures after a shooting outside the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, Md., Friday, May 6, 2016. Police say three people were hurt in the shooting. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A woman was killed and three people were wounded in two shootings within an hour […]

Lisa Campbell, 38, a teacher, and Cherie Evette Diggs, 40. (Photos Courtesy of the Fairfax County Police Department) Fairfax County police officials on May 4 charged two Alexandria, Va., preschool employees with misdemeanor assault and battery of a 4-year-old female student. Lisa Campbell, 38, a teacher, and Cherie Evette Diggs, 40, a teacher’s assistant at […]

A series of high school fights resulted in 12 Washington, D.C. students facing assault charges in juvenile court, according to police reports. Aquita Brown, spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department, told the AFRO April 30 that D.C. police made arrests at two high schools on April 26 and April 27. Arrests were made at H.D. Woodson […]

A scene from the documentary showing two of the 67 seventh graders in the “I Have a Dream” program at Kramer Middle School. Washington, D.C. has been known over the years by several monikers, “Our Nation’s Capital,” “Chocolate City,” and for an unfortunate period of time, America’s “Murder Capital.” It was during the latter, at […]

William Jacob Paatii Ofosu-Amaah was born in Accra, Ghana on July 13, 1950 to Lawrence and Bernice Ofosu-Amaah. As the last born child in a large family, he always received a lot of attention from many family members. He was a precocious boy and was seen in the barber’s shop mingling with much older people. […]

Ward 8 D.C. Council candidate Trayon White (D) posted April 26 a photo of brown water at Martin Luther King Elementary. He posted a follow up April 27 announcing the water was clear and DCDGS was conducting tests for harmful contaminants. (Courtesy photo) Amid a potential crisis in water safety in the District, its leaders […]

Members of District community service organizations are distraught after DC Trust, a nonprofit over 15-years-old, announced April 28 their organization will close due to mismanagement of funds that the organization blamed on prior management. “It is devastating,” Shenita Vanish, vice president of Community Services Foundation, told the AFRO May 3. “DC Trust has been a big […]

In an effort to reinforce its mission statement, a national organization dedicated to providing mentorship to Army service members and ROTC cadets along with its Washington D.C. chapter held its biannual conference from April 21-23 in Washington D.C. The National Board of the ROCKS, named after one of the group’s early mentors, Brigadier General Roscoe […]

DCHA Executive Director Adrieanne Todman spoke to roughly 100 attendees April 26 during the opening of a new center in Southwest D.C. that offers workforce development and training. (lower right photo) A UDC counselor assists a a local resident. The Ward 6 Greenleaf community cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art learning and career center – […]

Two of the District’s leading public officials are asking the city’s public service commission to reconsider its decision in the Exelon-Pepco merger as the new utility announced plans to raise rates in the District and Maryland. The People’s Counsel, Sandra Mattavous-Frye, and District Attorney General Karl Racine requested April 22 that the District of Columbia Public […]

A Washington, D.C., Metrobus drops off passengers in Arlington, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) On May 2, a Metrobus driver was allegedly stabbed with a pair of pliers by a male as the vehicle was coming to the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Nannie Helen Burroughs., N.E. The driver managed to get out of the bus […]