Category: Washington D.C. News

More than 200 local law enforcement agents made arrests, executed warrants and seized dozens of bank accounts and property on Feb. 20 in the largest health care anti-fraud operation in the history of Washington, D.C. The crackdown came after a multi-year, multi-agency investigation into tens of millions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid billing conducted by […]

Grace Church, led by Bishop Derek Grier, recently released its debut album, GRACE|LIVE featuring musical performances by the wildly celebrated Grace Worship Team. GRACE|LIVE is 13 tracks of unadulterated worship. The Grace Worship Team brings listeners with them as they praise to such popular favorites as “Freedom” by Eddie James. Listeners will also be introduced […]

Charles Reese will be a featured guest artist for the upcoming Black History Month special program, “Bayard Rustin & James Baldwin: Freedom Fighters and Friends” presented by the DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities at the Arena Stage. Reese is a New York Audelco Award nominee, cultural architect for public engagement, educator, and Washington […]

THEARC Theater will hold two free showings of Lady Days, 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., Feb. 20, in honor of Black History month. Lady Days is a Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) theatrical production adapted from the stage production Lady Day @ Emerson’s Bar and Grill about the life and times of Billie Holiday. The […]

Washington Concert Opera is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the greatest Italian composer of the 19th century, Giuseppe Verdi, by presenting two of his relatively unknown opera gems: I masnadieri and Il corsaro. These two operas, written early in Verdi’s career and premiered only one year apart, reveal Verdi’s amazing technical prowess and […]

Stanice Anderson remembers the sensation of floating that came after she injected heroin. She also remembers the agony of trying to quit—the stomach cramps, nausea, the feeling of desperation that she would never be free. “The rush is euphoric. It felt like I was really light,” Anderson, of the District, told the AFRO. “There were no […]

Ramping up to the April 1 Democratic primary, the Missionary Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Washington, D.C. and Vicinity hosted a debate forum Feb. 17 at Zion Baptist Church in Northwest. Clergymen, residents, and even out-of-towners came out to hear the candidates discuss several issues including poverty, affordable housing, parking, and education. Democrats running for mayor […]

Efforts to raise both the federal and state minimum wage continued this month. At the federal level, information from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported a change could have wide-reaching positive and negative effects. “The $10.10 option would have substantially larger effects on employment and income than the $9.00 option would – because more […]

To many young Black men in the Washington-Baltimore area, the failure of a Florida jury to convict a White man who fatally shot unarmed 17 year-old Jordan Davis for murder said a lot about the way the nation thinks about the value of the lives of its young Black men. To several young Black men […]

It was the surprise of a lifetime for three Friendship Collegiate Academy seniors who received scholarships to further their education at Hanover College in Indiana. Associate director of admissions and director of the Templeton Scholars Program, Monica Green from Hanover College visited the school, Feb. 28, to make the presentations to Takima Johnson, Cora Smallwood […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and other city leaders are making their annual trip to New York to meet with the three bond rating agencies. The city’s bond ratings have improved steadily since the mid-1990s, when Congress was forced to take over the bankrupt district government. Gray will argue that the […]

Despite a massive mid-February storm that even slowed the U.S. Postal Service in D.C., a U Street florist made sure that his Valentine’s Day deliveries didn’t get stuck in the snow. The storm that dumped eight inches of snow in D.C., 10 inches at Thurgood Marshall/BWI Airport and more than 12 inches at Dulles Airport […]