Category: Washington D.C. News

Apply for the DC Community Heritage Project Grant by May 8. The DCCHP is a partnership between the Humanities Council and the DC Historic Preservation Office. This program is designed to provide funding and support to community leaders interested in preserving the history, architecture, and collective memory of their neighborhoods.  The DCCHP is local history […]

Bring the whole family to the 2015 Tots to Teen Expo. The free event will be held at the Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mt. Vernon Place, N.W. D.C. on April 25 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be activities for everyone including bumper cars, basketball games, face painting, kids Zumba classes, […]

Chincoteague, Va. is having its first craft beer festival April 24 and April 25 at the Chincoteague Fairgrounds in Chincoteague, Va. The Saltwater Brew ‘N’ Que features a lineup of Mid-Atlantic artists, over a dozen regional breweries pouring unlimited tastings and a Kansas City BBQ Society Cook-off. Tickets are available online at www.saltwaterbrewnque.com.

The Earth Day Celebration at the National Mall was a joint initiative with the Global Poverty Project. (Courtesy Photo) WASHINGTON – Great music, great weather and the best ticket price in town – free — brought thousands of people from across the region, and even across the Atlantic Ocean, to the National Mall to celebrate […]

WASHINGTON — Floretta Dukes McKenzie legacy as an educator is more than just impressive. Floretta Dukes McKenzie’s life was celebrated, April 18, at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium. (Courtesy Photo) The life-long educator served as superintendent and chief state school officer for Washington, DC Public Schools, deputy commissioner in the U.S. Office of Education, deputy superintendent […]

Natalie Williams is a former aide to the late Marion S. Barry. (Courtesy Photo-Williams Campaign) Natalie Williams, the advisory neighborhood commissioner for single-member District 8A07, is one of the candidates for the Ward 8 vacancy on the D.C. Council. Williams, president of the Ward 8 Democrats, wants to use her experience and political chutzpah and savvy to represent the ward at the […]

Marion C. Barry (Courtesy Photo) Marion C. Barry has been putting up signs for months throughout Ward 8 as he runs for to fill the former District City Council seat his deceased father, Marion S. Barry. As he walks through the southeast Washington neighborhood, almost everyone knows who he is. Many have known him since he was a child. His notoriety, however, has worked in his […]

District residents are weighing in on what they believe should be part of the curriculum for a forthcoming all-boys academy in the city. Chicago’s Urban Prep High School, which the proposed southeast D.C. boys high school would be modeled after. (AP photo) The creation of an all-male public high school recently cleared a hurdle with the legal blessing of D.C. […]

Despite objections from local residents and one District city councilman, the Washington, D.C. Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration recently renewed the liquor license for the Stadium Club, a hip-hop strip club. The club was under a six-month review, having been closed and reopened repeatedly due to shootings and stabbings over the past two years. The club, […]

(Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP and Courtesy Image) A Washington, D.C. federal court recently approved a settlement in a case meant to reform how officers in the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s (WMATA) Metro Transit Police Department treat juveniles. According to the agreement reached in Winslow v. Taylor, the WMATA will retain an independent expert to examine […]

(Photo By Justin Wright, Howard University News Service) High school students from two Washington schools will be able to earn college and high school credit under a new partnership between Howard University and the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Starting next fall, seniors at Banneker and McKinley Technology high schools, who meet the eligibility […]

Fun, fashion and fundraising are on the menu for the 6th Annual Pink Hat Tea, “Committed to Scholarship and Service: Our Legacy Continues,” on May 31, hosted by the Pearl and Ivy Educational Foundation in collaboration with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Xi Omega Chapter. Attendees will enjoy tea service, entertainment, hat/neckwear fashion show and a […]