Category: Washington D.C. News

WASHINGTON–Coolidge High School’s principal and two female staff members face misdemeanor assault charges in the Nov. 2 beating of a former colleague in the school’s parking lot after Coolidge’s homecoming game. Thelma Jarrett, a 19-year veteran of the school system, surrendered to D.C. police Nov. 15 and was arraigned in D.C. Superior Court Nov. 15, […]

The lady in the fancy pink suit and fancy blue top hat trimmed in pink caught my attention as she entered the fellowship hall where I was enjoying a pre-Sunday School breakfast with my grandparents at Tenth Street Baptist Church. The lady’s smile was bright, her presence as luminous as sunshine. I kept my eye […]

Inez Powell Dade walked grandly through the entrance of the U.S. Navy Yard Conference and Catering Center, leaning elegantly on a cane and the arm of an escort. As she entered the room, with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” playing in the background, hundreds of family members and friends rose in a standing ovation. […]

When Sondra Phillips-Gilbert grew concerned about the dilapidated state of the Rosedale Recreation Center in 2006, she set her sights on having it renovated. Phillips-Gilbert created the Rosedale Grassroots Organization and invited other community groups and citizens into her home to formulate strategy. Six years later, on May 25, she was among a group of […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former D.C. Council chairman who violated campaign finance laws avoided most of his possible jail time but will have to spend hundreds of hours doing community service and stay out of trouble. Superior Court Judge Juliet McKenna on Tuesday sentenced 42-year-old Kwame Brown to 30 days in jail, all suspended. That […]

Voters started queuing up at 6 a.m. outside the Wayne K. Curry Sports and Learning Complex in Landover on the first day of early voting in Maryland on Oct. 27, even though polls didn’t open until 10 a.m. Two hours later, lines were hundreds of people long, as they were in downtown Silver Spring, Baltimore […]

Disgruntled mental health patients, health activists and supporters are scheduled on Nov. 5 to rally in front of the John A.Wilson Building to demand that District officials provide specialized home health care services for people who suffer from both mental health and physical illnesses. Organizers said the protest was called to send a message to […]

(WASHINGTON, DC — On the heels of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s emergency decree for the District, the D.C. National Guard is prepared to respond to storm damage. The D.C. National Guard’s Quick Reaction Force of approximately 150 soldiers and airmen are prepared to respond to the storm’s aftermath. On order, the District of Columbia National […]

South African anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Allan Aubrey Boesak visited Howard University recently to talk to students about his country’s failure to achieve much-needed reconciliation at a time when the citizens of the nation need to come together. Boesak made the address at the Howard University Divinity School on Oct. 18th with a lecture […]

Longtime Radio One talk show host and 45-year radio veteran Bernie McCain died on Oct. 12 from natural causes. He was 75 years old. A well-respected personality on WOL 1450 AM and WOLB 1010 AM, McCain was also known as a loving family man, community activist and mentor. A memorial service was held in his […]

Interfaith teams from six faiths are scheduled to share their authentic traditional meditations with public audiences this fall. Ordained and lay religious leaders from the diverse doctrines will facilitate gatherings in churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, universities and community centers in the DC area. Interfaith Meditation Initiative, a non-religious, non-sectarian, DC-based public charity announced the schedule […]

Amir Malik Dogan El, 20, cast his first vote in a presidential election on the first day that polls opened in Washington, D.C. because he felt it was important to make an early statement. He was among almost 1,095 people who trekked to D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics headquarters at One Judiciary Square in […]