Category: Washington D.C. News

Paul Quander was a former D.C. deputy mayor for public safety and justice. (AFRO File Photo) Paul Alonzo Quander Jr. died on March 23 of cancer at the age of 61. He was one of the District’s most accomplished sons, serving as deputy mayor for public safety and justice from 2011-2015 under Mayor Vincent Gray (D), […]

Crafted to meet the changing political and social landscape where centuries-old laws were being dismantled, the Antioch School of Law, later the University the D.C. Law School, and now the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law (UDC-DCSL), embraced the mantra “Challenge Authority” from its inception. Panelists celebrating the legacy of The Antioch […]

Ivanhoe Donaldson was SNCC activist and a Marion Barry close friend. (AFRO File Photo) Friends and colleagues of the late former District deputy mayor Ivanhoe Donaldson remembered his passion for civil rights, his keen political acumen, and his close relationship with the late Marion S. Barry. Donaldson, 74, died April 3 of cancer. Former D.C. first lady Cora […]

Toya J. remembers waking in to the emergency room of George Washington University hospital, not sure how she had got there or what was causing her extreme pain. A police report would later fill in the gaps of her memory, documenting what witnesses described as a violent attack against her by a group of young […]

Panelist Sean T. Wallace, supervising housing counselor at University Legal Services; William Fitzgerald Jr., of Long and Foster Real Estate; attorney Sandy Bellamy Thomas; Benjamin Banneker Development Corporation head; and attorney Johnny Barnes discussed preventing foreclosure and evictions. (Photo by Shantella Y. Sherman) It is not uncommon in the District to find investors surveying neighborhoods […]

Participants in the Test My Breast 5-K Walk at Hains Point in East Potomac Park got a vigorous workout before and during the walk on April 2.

Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were children. Now, as college students, they toy around with making their friendship romantic…or, not. Gradually, secrets and truths emerge in this unexpected love story from one of the writers of Showtime’s Masters of Sex. The performance will play at the Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Avenue, […]

The University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law is sponsoring a Law Review Symposium on April 7 from 10 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. The symposium will focus on the efforts of the historical Civil RightsMovement and the transition to modern fights for civil rights. The event will take […]

Ken Dudley is the new coach of youth track-and-field club DC Speed. (Photo by Breana Pitts) Ken Dudley just wanted to give his sons a competitive edge in youth football, so he signed them up for track and field with DC Speed, the premier youth track club in Washington, D.C. The club needed more coaches, […]

Metro trains arrive in the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station Tuesday, March 15, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) In the wake of a recent day-long, system-wide closure of the region’s subway system that revealed massive health and safety concerns, officials of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announced a strategy for repairs that may […]

A Northwest Washington, D.C., man on March 31 pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious disfigurement while armed, in connection with his violently attacking a woman with a knife Jan. 22 in Southeast D.C., according to the District’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. Meguiel Jackson, 36, pled guilty in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to […]

15-yr-old Davonte Washington. (Photo/GoFundMe) Hundreds gathered at the Deanwood Metro Station parking lot in Northeast Washington, D.C., the evening of March 30 to pay tribute to Davonte Washington, 15, who was gunned down at the station on March 26 in what D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier called a “senseless act.” The massive crowd was packed […]