Category: Washington D.C. News

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Cornelius Magee, 36, of Silver Spring, Md., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Feb. 13 to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and FBI Washington Field Office assistant director Valerie Parlave announced. According to prosecutors, Magee on Oct. 24, 2012 contacted […]

Everywhere you look in Washington these days you see construction crews, scaffolding, jackhammers and cranes soaring. Drive down any major street in the city, Georgia Avenue Northwest, Benning Road Southeast, or M Street and you see older apartment buildings and row homes mixed with new condos and contemporary construction. As the rest of the country […]

So now what? What’s the latest hypocritical excuse for why the capital of the free world, the District of Columbia, cannot enjoy equal democratic rights? What’s holding back the president, the House of Representative and the Senate from doing the right thing? What did you wager whether D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, a Democrat, would be […]

Family and friends gathered at Mount Airy Baptist Church on Feb. 2 to commemorate the life and legacy of Mark Dixon, an influential advisory neighborhood commissioner (ANC) whose only vice seemed to be the soft drink Mountain Dew. He died Jan. 23 at age 70 after a brief illness. Attendees to the homegoing celebration could […]

Aishia Smith strutted and bounced on stage in a coral suit, beaming a sweet smile while her long braids swung behind her. The 32-year-old D.C. resident had plenty to be happy for. After enduring a life of sexual abuse, drug addiction, alcohol addiction and serving a year in jail, she is celebrating a new stage […]

WASHINGTON — With hundreds of people screaming his name, applauding and rushing his 6’9” frame, multi-millionaire entrepreneur and NBA Hall-of-Famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson greeted every anxious hand, every request for a photo and plea for an autograph with a firm shake and humble smile Thursday as he visited Howard University Hospital. “When I come back […]

On Feb. 6, 20 senior athletes from Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School’s football team revealed their school choices at the institution’s National College Football Signing Day ceremony. Each student will receive scholarships to play football at their respective schools. The four pictured students will attend the University of Maryland, College Park. 

While the vast majority of 14-year-olds are still in bed at 6 a.m. on Saturday mornings, O’Conner Anderson III is preparing to hit the ice. He rises early, eats breakfast, grabs his skating gear and heads to Fort Dupont Ice Arena in Southeast Washington, where for the last six years, he’s trained and prepared for […]

D.C. school officials have proposed changes in graduation requirements and have finalized which schools are slated to be closed. The proposed changes for graduation requirements were submitted by the D.C. Board of Education in December. The public was given the opportunity to respond in January and the school board is scheduled to vote on the […]

With an unexpected windfall socked away for the city, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray promised Feb. 5 to create affordable housing, rebuild the city’s public schools and foster economic development in what he called a “prosperity dividend” in his state of the city address. He unveiled plans to reform the regulatory and contracting systems while investing […]

(Updated:Feb. 8, 2013) Some of the nation’s best and brightest professional and student minds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics converged on Washington, D.C. Feb. 7 for the annual Black Engineer of the Year Award, or BEYA, STEM Global Competitiveness Conference. BEYA chairman Tyrone Taborn said the conference was conceived “to recognize and document the […]