Category: Washington D.C. News

The D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) recently released data that showed a 4 percent increase in public high school graduation rates for the 2014-15 school year, the most recent data available. The report assesses graduation rates from both The District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) and Public Charter School (PCS) systems. […]

Rudy Brown, owner of Stuff Haulers (Courtesy Photo) While many people want to recycle, some are unaware of how to do it properly. Rudy Brown takes each client through a unique process to manage unwanted items. Stuff Haulers is a junk removal company rooted in eco-friendly and pro-community practices. “I find out what it is […]

Yasmine Arrington grew up like most of the other children in her neighborhood, but there was one part of her life that she kept mostly locked away, one that she says caused her lots of pain, embarrassment and financial struggles. For most of her life, her father was locked away in a Georgia prison while […]

Youth panelists that participated in D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie’s #YouthSpeakDC event. (Courtesy Photo) An intergenerational crowd of youths and adults came together on Oct. 17 to hear what teens and millennials had to say about issues such as education, drugs, and the lack of resources to stay out of trouble. The summit, given by […]

Award-winning author Jonetta Rose Barras (Photo/bancroftpress.com) Award-winning author Jonetta Rose Barras joins with Esther Productions, Inc., a DC-based nonprofit organization, and nationally recognized artists and therapists Brittany Nicole Adams, Joy Jones and Tracie Robinson to present THE GIFT: An Interactive Arts Healing and Reconciliation Experience being held October 20, 2015 from 5:30 PM through 8:00 PM at the Frank […]

The ROCKS, an organization partnered with the Department of the Army, will host their first annual golf tournament. The event is scheduled to take place on Oct. 23 at The Westfields Golf Club, 13940 Balmoral Greens Ave., at 8:30 a.m. All proceeds from the tournament will go towards the organization to help continue their mission to strengthen […]

The Lambda Kappa Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha will hold their annual Kozy Kerchief & Kozy Kaps program at the Vienna Presbyterian Church, 124 Park St. NE, on Oct. 24 from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The event will take place on National Make A Difference Day and consist of AKA  members and volunteers […]

Musiq Soulchild Taalib Johnson, otherwise known as contemporary singer Musiq Soulchild, is scheduled to perform at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St NW, from Oct. 24-25. Introduced to the world in 2000, Musiq, a Philadelphia native, is a soul artist whose unique style blends R&B, Soul, Funk, Rock, Blues, Jazz, and Hip Hop.  He has […]

Bell Biv DeVoe, an R&B music group that branched off from New Edition, will be performing at The Howard Theatre, 620 T St NW, on Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Group members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ron DeVoe, will perform hits, including “Poison,” “Do Me,” and “When Will I See You Smile Again?” among […]

(Screengrab from cellphone footage of incident) More than fifty protesters trekked the Eastern Market / Navy Annex corridor on Oct. 13 to demand an internal investigation of police conduct following the aggressive detainment of a University of the District of Columbia (UDC) student a day earlier. In cellphone footage recorded reportedly by Michael Brown, one […]

With two months left in 2015, as of Oct. 9 the District of Columbia has 120 homicides. That figure is 44.6 percent higher than 2014. Benjamin Crump, President of the National Bar Association. Across the United States, families, cities, and communities are grappling with a culture of violence manifested by tens of thousands killed each year […]

Jessica Cunningham accepts 2015 Milken Educators Award. (Photo by courtesy of Milken Family Foundation.) America’s true unsung heroes work daily to educate youth who shape the future. This is the belief of Lowell Milken, who established the Milken Educator Awards program in 1987 to recognize the outstanding work of early-to-mid career education professionals across the […]