Category: Washington D.C. News

Black Youth Project 100’s D.C. chapter is hosting a house party on March 4 to raise funds for the March BYP National conference that will be taking place in North Carolina. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 p. m. The chapter raises awareness for the struggles of local Black, Queer communities. The event […]

The Black Women Overload group is sponsoring a discussion about Black women and their political stances in the upcoming presidential election at the Southeast library, 403 7th Street S.E., from 3 p. m. – 4 p. m. on March 6. The event will address Black women’s concerns, political views and voting strategies related to the […]

The Gallery Place-Chinatown metro station on the Green Line – the same line where a man was shot Tuesday. Two suspects are in custody in connection with the shooting. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP) WASHINGTON – The attorney of one of two teens charged in the highly- publicized shooting on a Metro train on Feb. […]

The District of Columbia Public Service Commission (PSC) rejected the full settlement agreement recently proffered by Exelon in its attempt to acquire Pepco but has set conditions for its acceptance. On Feb. 26, the PSC voted down, 2-1, the Nonunanimous Full Settlement Agreement and Stipulation (NSA) that was negotiated by Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration and with […]

Ben Schumin (Own work) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons The recent shooting of a 24-year-old man at the Anacostia Metro Station by a 16-year-old has prompted further police presence to be ordered by Metro’s General Manager/CEO Paul J. Wiedefeld and Transit Police Chief Ron Pavlik On Feb. 23 the alleged shooter and Andre Brodie, 19, reportedly […]

(Stock Photo) The commission charged with assisting males in Washington, D.C., to become more productive citizens has started deliberations, and the public is encouraged to participate.  The first meeting of the Commission on Fathers, Men and Boys convened Feb. 17 at the R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center in Ward 8. The meeting’s objective was to organize, update commissioners […]

Two teenagers, a 16- and 19-year-old, are now facing charges of assault with intent to kill after they allegedly shot a man aboard a Green Line metro train in Washington, D.C., this week in the latest of a series of incidents on D.C. Metro. Metro Transit Police said the 24-year-old victim was shot on the […]

A federal jury handed down a guilty verdict in the indictment of Kensington, Maryland physician William Crittenden III. Crittenden faced charges including the unlawful distribution of oxycodone and alprazolam, and eight separate counts of unlawfully distributing oxycodone. Federal law makes it illegal for licensed health care professionals, such as doctors or pharmacists, to knowingly sell […]

D.C. police arrested two men in the Feb. 12 shooting of a father and his small child inside a Southeast, D.C. barbershop while a third suspect remains on the loose. According to police reports, three men began shooting inside Wrenn’s Barbershop on 8th Street in the early afternoon on Feb. 12. The three attackers then […]

Sylvia Cyrus, ASALH executive director; Ronald A. Stroman, deputy postmaster general, USPS; Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, president of ASALH and Jon Jarvis, National Park Service director unveiled Feb. 20 the commemorative stamp of Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the A.M.E. Church. (Photo by Rob Roberts ) Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Negro History Week – […]

A Luma Lab Incubator at Howard University could help support small businesses and underrepresented communities gain an edge in technology. Howard University and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the installation of a new Luma Lab operation as a D.C.-based incubator on Howard’s campus. As the District’s first venture capital hub for start-ups and emerging companies, […]

Daron Wint (Police Mugshot Handout) Daron Wint, the only suspect accused in the so-called “Mansion Murders,” in which three members of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper Veralicia Figueroa were killed, pleaded not guilty of all charges at an arraignment hearing Feb. 19. Judge Jose M. Lopez presided over the hearing at the D.C. Superior […]