Category: Washington D.C. News

Four hundred Howard University students are planning to forego frolicking in the tropics or just resting and relaxing at home to work as volunteers in seven major U.S. cities as part of the school’s Alternative Spring Break program, officials said. Students raised $50,000 during a 12-hour radiothon held March 3 at the university’s radio station, […]

Former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown said his campaign is gaining momentum for next month’s special election as he knocks on doors, visits churches and plans to attend a series of fundraisers scheduled before the March 10 finance reporting deadline. “Now that I’m cleared, people are focusing on my campaign,” Brown said in an […]

Rock Newman, one of the major political players in Washington during the 1990s, is back in town and attracted a powerful group of elected officials to the launch of his new radio program Feb. 23 at a small studio in Southeast Washington. Those who took to the microphone to participate in the first Rock Newman […]

Shauna-Kay Creary, a student of the University of the District of Columbia was recently selected as a participant for the 2013 NCAA Division II Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championships in the Long Jump event. Student -athletes qualified for the championships by reaching the automatic and provisional standards established for each event. “I’m elated with […]

Spingarn High School opened to fanfare among Washington Blacks in 1952. Named for Joel Elias Spingarn, the educator for whom the NAACP’s prestigious Spingarn Medal is named, the school boasts among its graduates NBA greats Elgin Baylor, who went on to serve 22 years as general manager of the L.A. Clippers, and Dave Bing, now […]

Little Eriona Birts, 6, a first-grader at Friendship Public Charter School in Northeast Washington spent the afternoon of Feb. 16 playing games and eating pizza at a welcome home party at the Chuck E. Cheese’s in Largo, Md. It was a special celebration orchestrated by her father, Eric Birts, who had spent many frantic moments […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]