Category: Washington D.C. News

The Capital Guardian Youth Challenge Academy led the 2016 Emancipation Day parade on April 16 down Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest D.C. (Photo by Melanie R. Duncan) The 2016 D.C. Emancipation Day parade April 16 was greeted by a diverse crowd as it proceeded down Pennsylvania Ave. NW. The holiday is a central part of the […]

By day Ralph Cooper is a television producer. By night he is politically incorrect comedian. (Photo by Mark F. Gray) On a night of intense Stanley Cup Playoffs hockey in D.C. there’s a packed house inside RFD – an Irish soccer pub and sports bar – around the corner from Verizon Center in Chinatown.  As […]

The Julia West Hamilton League will host an Annual Luncheon, Fashion show and Afternoon of Music event on April 23 in celebration of the group’s 78 years of community service. The event is scheduled to begin at noon at the J.W. Marriott Hotel Grand Ballroom, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Tickets cost $70. Proceeds will be […]

The MetroStage will feature the play “Black Pearl Sings” by Frank Higgins from April 21-May 29. MetroStage is located at 1201 N Royal St. The play features two women in Depression-era Texas in a journey of race andreconciliation, religion and tenacity in their search for the origins of folk music. The play is loosely based […]

The New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, located at 6107 Franconia Road, is scheduled to host its “Use It or Lose It” Spring Revival April 26-28. The revival will feature guest ministers from local Virginia churches, including Rev. Isaac E. Howard of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfax, Rev. Connie Welch of Christian Institute in Reston […]

President Barack Obama speaks to the overflow room of students, Thursday, April 7, 2016, at the University of Chicago Law School in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Barack H. Obama will act as keynote speaker at this year’s Howard University commencement ceremony, the White House announced April 14. The event will be held May 7 […]

15-year-old Davonte Marquise Washington. (Courtesy Photo) Family, friends, classmates and other members of the community gathered April 8 at First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Landover, Md., to celebrate the life of Davonte Marquise Washington. The 15-year-old was one of several murders in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that residents deemed as “senseless. Washington was […]

At-large incumbent Vincent Orange (D) and hopeful Robert White discuss the issues plaguing D.C. at a forum in Ward 8 April 9. (Photo by Shantella Sherman) A lively and spirited crowd came together April 9 at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Anacostia to participate in a candidates’ forum. Moderated by D.C. Jobs with Justice […]

Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) and incumbent council member Yvette Alexander (D) are rivaling over the Ward 7 council seat. (Courtesy Photos) Former D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D), during the special elections of 2007, said he would do “everything” to get his mentee Yvette Alexander (D) elected to his former seat as Ward 7 […]

The Downtown Circulator bus drives by Union Station on Friday, July 7, 2006, in Washington. (AP Photo/Leslie E. Kossoff) New concerns have rocked D.C.’s Department of Transportation over the safety of its Circulator Bus fleet alongside an already troubled Metrorail subway system. According to a new report, 95 percent of D.C. Circulator buses have at […]

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Southeast D.C. (Photo/dc.gov) James Kyle, who was hired to lead St. Elizabeth’s Hospital by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), resigned after just 30 days as the institution’s CEO. Regarded as “a nationally board certified health care executive with over 30 years of experience in the medical field,” by Bowser, Kyle resigned […]

Jovante Hall, 18, was charged with second-degree murder while armed in the April 11 stabbing death of John Rufus Evans III. (Metropolitan Police Department) An 18-year-old man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in what marks the second homicide at the same Metro station in just over two weeks, police […]