Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

It was a particularly heinous crime—an elderly woman who earned her living working as a street vendor assaulted and robbed near where she went about her work. The attack on Vasiliki Fotopoulos, who was then 83, was particularly troublesome for Metro riders who entered and exited at the Foggy Bottom station. There, she was known […]

As the viewing stands go up and women shop for the perfect ball gowns, Washington-area businesses are gearing up for economic boosts from the activities of the 57th Presidential Inauguration. Though the economic impact will not be as significant as it was in 2009 when almost 2 million people converged on the nation’s capital for […]

The international community in Washington, D.C., will celebrate the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on Jan. 21 with the Ambassadors Inaugural Ball, “Promoting International Peace, Unity and Diplomacy,” at the Carnegie Library. More than 2,000 persons are expected to dance to the sounds of American hip-hop artist Biz Markie; multi-platinum, award-winning South African singer/songwriter […]

Members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority are celebrating their 100th anniversary with a series of events, including a Founders’ Day weekend scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Washington D.C. The centennial celebration touched off New Year’s Day when the sorority, which was founded in 1913 on the campus of Howard University, presented a float in the […]

Two months after losing his seat to a newcomer to D.C. politics, former D.C. Councilman Michael A. Brown has thrown his hat into the ring for a run at a vacant at-large seat on the D.C. Council. In November, Brown lost his seat to attorney David Grosso. He changed his party affiliation back to Democrat […]

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After blinking during in a New Year’s Day showdown with President Obama that could have triggered across-the-board spending cuts and significant tax increases, Republicans are poised to seek deep cuts in spending that would violate the “balanced” approach to the deficit that the president has advocated. In an interview Sunday on ABC’s […]

Hundreds of people gathered at Shiloh Baptist Church on Jan. 3 to pay tribute to Barbara Lett Simmons, a dedicated political and community activist who died on Dec. 22, 2012 at 85. In an upbeat celebration filled with scripture readings, Simmons was praised as a tireless advocate of public education and political power for her […]

Energized with a new chairman and five new freshman House members, the Congressional Black Caucus was sworn in for the 113th Congress Jan. 3 with a pledge from incoming Chairman Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) to “play to win” with the Obama administration in the battle for jobs, income opportunity and political influence for Black America. “I’m […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Jan. 21. The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his Mississippi home. […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The leaders of African American churches will, once again, convene in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Weekend to commemorate one of the most extraordinary events in American history – the second term and inauguration of President Obama, America’s first president of African descent. In an inaugural ball to be held Jan. 20, the […]