Category: Washington D.C. News

Mayor Bowser, with Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, hosted a regional summit on homelessness March 17. Their goal was to determine how best to manage the growing number of metropolitan residents who have lost their homes. The summit goal was to determine how best to manage […]

The Metro DC LINKS will hold an awards presentation to introduce the winners of the Young Black Writers Contest. Three students from D.C. area schools will be honored and given monetary prizes. This awards presentation will take place at the WUSA 9 Broadcast house, located at 4100 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. from 11 a.m. to 1 […]

The D.C. Public Library in collaboration with The DC Legendary Musicians will hold “The DC Legendary Musicians Awards Ceremony and Concert” on April 2 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street N.W. at 6 p.m. The event is being held to support music in D.C. To RSVP for the event, email […]

The top 10 DC public and public charter high school student DC-CAPITAL STARS finalists, selected via a city-wide audition and public voting process, will take center stage and compete for college scholarships at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, located at 2700 F Street N.W., on April 1 at 7 p.m. The […]

Hundreds of women from around the country will convene on March 26 and March 28 for the Black Women’s Roundtable Women of Power “Healthy, Wealthy, Wise” National Summit. The three-day summit to celebrate Women’s History Month will include a wide range of activities with participants, including meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill on March 26 […]

Trinity Episcopal Church located on 7005 Piney Branch Road, NW, will hold a revival on March 26 and 27. The revival is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. The guest preacher will be Rev. Dr. Duanet T. Kay, senior pastor at First Baptist Church in North Brentwood. The event is free and open to all. […]

On March 22 at 3 p.m., Safety Nest for the Disabled will hold a march in front of the National Children’s Center, 6200 Second Street N.W. Although not the first time, demonstrators will march to share their displeasure with the scandal-plagued organization for alleged maltreatment of the disabled. For more information, contact Thalia Wood at […]

The Lyricist Jaz recites a poem about female assault at the performance showcase. Poets, painters, vocalists, and writers gathered at the Anacostia Arts Center in southeast D.C. on March 7 to lend their voices, and insights to unsung stories and issues conflicting their community. Tyece Wilkins, is the founder and director of the annual See. […]

Looking south on Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue SE . (Courtesy Photo Wikimedia Commons) On March 9, District Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced a $5 million investment for the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, S.E. in Ward 8’s Congress Heights’ neighborhood. She was joined in the announcement of the District’s […]

#DCFerguson co-founder Eugene Puryear holds sign of “Stop Jump Outs” before he testifies.  (Photo by Kymone Freeman) Racial profiling and department understaffing were the two major issues the Metropolitan Police Department is dealing with, according to a D.C. Council hearing. Protesters, witnesses, observers, and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Chief Cathy Lanier and her entourage, […]

Certified yoga instructor, Nya Alemayhu. (Photo by James Jackson) As D.C. becomes saturated with athletic-focused yoga instructors, Nya Alemayhu instead values the practice of holistic teaching. “I think a lot of the yoga instructors in Washington don’t realize that teaching yoga is a social responsibility,” Alemayhu told the AFRO. “People come to you for a […]

Avon Hart-Johnson’s research looks at the effect of imprisonment on the entire family. (Courtesy Photo) Convicted felons are not the only ones who feel the isolation of physical imprisonment while incarcerated. According to Avon Hart-Johnson, a Walden University doctoral program graduate, the families of the convicted felon suffer similarly, and not just the grief of […]