Category: Washington D.C. News

On a hot and muggy Tuesday evening, hundreds of people gathered at the Barry Farm basketball courts in Southeast D.C. for the annual summer ritual of The Goodman League. Hundreds of young men and women come out to see local hoop stars, and sometimes a few well known basketball players, show off their ball handling […]

After 61 years of homeroom bells, yearbook pictures and legions of graduates, student life at Joel Elias Spingarn High School came to an end June 21, with a few tears and lots of memories. When Spingarn opened its doors in 1952, it was the first high school to be constructed in the District in almost […]

Men are often seen as the protector, provider and dominant force in a nuclear family. But, according to the mother of a disabled child and author of a web blog on special needs parenting, fathers secretly harbor pain and heartache when it comes to a disabled child. Suzanne Perryman, who writes the blog specialneedschild.com, recently […]

Mayor Vincent Gray presented Friendship Collegiate Academy Student Phillip Pride with an award for Most Outstanding High School Graduate and check for $4,000 at the D.C. Association of Chartered School’s third Annual STARS Tribute Gala in May. 

At 17, Zaccheus McEwan already believes that a very limited narrative of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement is found in textbooks, so he worked with his classmates to produce an award-winning documentary on the voting rights struggle in his hometown. McEwan of McComb, Miss., is one of 16 students and five staff members who arrived in […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black activists marked the 42nd anniversary of the War on Drugs with a protest in front of the White House aimed at ending a targeted action that has led to the disproportionate arresting, conviction and incarceration of Blacks for decades. The Institute of the Black World 21st Century, an organization dedicated to […]

Dr. Lucius Walker, a mechanical engineer, engineering professor and education administrator died June 6 at age 77 following a lengthy illness. At age 15, Walker attended Morehouse College on a Ford Foundation scholarship. He later transferred to Howard University in 1954 to study engineering, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 1957. Walker continued his […]

Thousands of people flocked to the District June 8-9 to celebrate diversity and victories in the battle against gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual discrimination at the 38th Annual Capital Pride festival. The celebration kicked off on June 8 at 4:30 p.m. with the Capital Pride Parade, which began at the corner of 22nd and P […]

The 21st Annual Capital Jazz Fest 2013, featuring a variety of soul and jazz acts powered into Columbia’s Merriweather Post Pavilion June 7 – 9, drawing thousands of music fans from across the nation who came to enjoy hours of outdoor musical entertainment. The event featured more than 30 acts on two large stages:  The […]

Michael A. Brown, a former member of the D.C. Council who was once a rising star in local politics, pleaded guilty to accepting $55,000 from FBI agents posing as business owners seeking a government contracting advantage, authorities said. The plea allows Brown, son of the late Clinton cabinet member Ron Brown, to avoid the minimum […]