Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced on Jan. 29 that the city has a budget surplus of $417 million through Fiscal Year 2012, increasing the city’s rainy day fund from $1.1 billion to $1.5 billion. The surplus is largest for the city since 2005 and the second highest surplus figure since the city gained limited independence […]

These are good days for Alice Bynum. At just a few years shy of 100, she feels well and has everything she needs by way of worldly goods. She has plenty of people she loves and plenty who love her. And, she lived long enough to see an African American inaugurated as president not once […]

A D.C. nightclub owner being retried on a drug conspiracy charge dramatically tore up a copy of his indictment at the beginning of his new trial Monday. Antoine Jones, who is representing himself, told jurors that the indictment is nothing but a formal charge before ripping it twice. In 2010, an appeals court reversed Jones’ […]

A trio of students from Friendship Public Charter School will receive full four-year tuition scholarships thanks to the Posse Foundation, a national nonprofit that aims to help students from diverse backgrounds pursue their academics. The winners of the award are Kendra Spruill, Phillip Pride and Kirk Murphy. Spruill will attend Bucknell University while Pride and […]

Howard University professor Dr. Daryl Michael Scott was recently named president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the organization announced. “I am delighted and honored to be the new president of ASALH,” Dr. Scott said in a statement. We at ASLAH are all about service. Our founder, Dr. […]

President Barack Obama’s limousine will soon carry the District of Columbia’s “Taxation Without Representation” license plate, a subtle, but some say important, protest over the city’s lack of a voting member in Congress. The White House said Tuesday that Obama has lived in D.C. for four years and has seen firsthand “how patently unfair it […]