Category: Washington D.C. News

Acqunetta Anderson Eighteen candidates are now running for Mayor Muriel Bowser’s empty Ward 4 city council seat. The special election is on April 28. Name: Acqunetta Anderson Occupation: Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, Ward 4 Party: Democrat Why are you running? To help move the ward forward for all of its citizens. Ward 4 has not benefited […]

Booker T. Washington (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress) Carter G. Woodson was in many ways a self-made man, a singular man whose greatness grew out of the ordinary. As such, there are but a few names – at least those recorded in the annals of formal history – one can point to as […]

Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau WASHINGTON – It has been 17 years since residents in Ward 1 and the communities of LeDroit, Shaw, U. Street, Pleasant Plain and Columbia Heights have had a councilmember other than 69-year-old Jim Graham. Brianne Nadeau, an 11-year-resident of Ward 1 who had served an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner before running for office, […]

Owners at Lee’s Flower Shop say business has grown tremendously in recent years. WASHINGTON — It is a busy time for Lee’s Flower and Card Shop, just days before Valentine’s Day, when Americans spend $1.9 billion on flowers and 64 percent of men and 36 percent of women give flowes to a significant other. The […]

Students protest, holding signs. Three teachers at the Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science charter school who claimed they were about to be terminated because they wanted to teach more Black history, resigned officially on Jan. 27. The school’s board of directors issued a statement verifying the resignations, but they denied the allegations […]

East Washington Heights Baptist Church will present its 28th Annual Gospel Choir Concert on Feb. 15. (Facebook photo) In celebration of Black History Month, the East Washington Heights Baptist Church Gospel Choir will present its 28th Annual Gospel Choir Concert on Feb. 15 at 3:45 p.m. The theme for this year’s concert is “Achieving Unity […]

Lula Washington’s “Whispers.” (Photo courtesy of Artimpactusa.com) On Valentine’s weekend, Feb. 14-15, the Lula Washington Dance Theatre, from Los Angeles, Calif., will celebrate its 35th anniversary at Dance Place, located at 3225 8th Street, N.E. Founded in 1980 in inner city Los Angeles, this vibrant troupe is known for its powerful, high-energy dancing and unique […]

On Feb. 13 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Carmen Torruella-Quander will be one of the many artists invited to exhibit in “Light of the Ancestors,” an art exhibit featuring some of America’s most outstanding artists. Torruella-Quander, an internationally accredited classic artist will be featuring her two great works, “Whispers” – which deals with the history […]

WASHINGTON – It has been 17 years since residents in Ward 1 and the communities of LeDroit, Shaw, U. Street, Pleasant Plain and Columbia Heights have had a councilmember other than 69-year-old Jim Graham. Brianne Nadeau: New Ward 1 Councilwoman Brianne Nadeau, an 11-year-resident of Ward 1 who had served an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner before […]

Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick announced he signed a “letter of intent” to transform the United Medical Center (UMC). When Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick announced he signed a “letter of intent” (LOI) to enter a collaborative agreement with the District of Columbia and Paladin Healthcare Capital LLC, to transform the United Medical […]

Brandon Todd (l) is a Ward 4 candidate, and LaRuby May (r) is a Ward 8 candidate in the April 28 D.C. Council special election. (Photos courtesy of dcyds.org (Todd) and Facebook (May).) The April 28 special election to fill the D.C. Council member positions in Wards 4 and 8 has a number of candidates but the District […]

Young Invincibles and Enroll America hosted dozens of events leading up to National Youth Enrollment Day. Like many African-American college graduates living in the District, Keysa Towns has experienced the highs and lows of living outside of a dependency on her parents. Aside from escalating living costs – her Northwest apartment building was sold and […]