Category: Washington D.C. News

More than 1,500 supporters of President Barack Obama packed a synagogue in Northwest Washington recently to rally on behalf of their candidate and to plan strategy to win over undecided or infrequent voters in Virginia. The rally took place Oct. 17 at the Jewish Historical Synagogue located at 600 I St., NW, part of an […]

Gallaudet University Chief Diversity Officer Angela McCaskill, who was placed on paid administrative leave after it was disclosed that she had signed a petition at her church calling for the same-sex marriage measure to be placed on the November ballot, said at a news conference Oct. 16 in Annapolis that she was treated unfairly by […]

Rumors are flying among District residents about the absence of campaign posters in the local political races. Some believe that current office holders assume that once the primary elections settle who is going to represent each party in the November general election, posters are not needed. After all, in a town that is dominated by […]

Kimberly Marcus, who conducted African American outreach for the Democratic National Committee, is moving to the Commerce Department where she will be associate director for legislative, education and intergovernmental affairs for the Minority Business Development Administration. She was appointed by President Obama in September. “Kimberly Marcus is well-suited for this position in light of her […]

When Dr. Anne Pruitt-Logan signed on to a biography project 10 years ago, it wasn’t because she felt an urge to write another book. A retired Ohio State University professor who was working at the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington D.C., she was already a published author and had a full schedule. But when […]

There aren’t many annual events in the Washington, D.C. area that outrank Howard University’s homecoming on the “places to be” list. From high profiled figures to average everyday D.C. natives, they all want to be present at Howard’s Greene Stadium for the homecoming football game, along with all of the other festivities planned in celebration […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–After ten months in the Afghan war zone, the contingent of the D.C. Army National Guard’s 273rd Military Police Battalion that had been deployed in Afghanistan will return home Oct. 14, the U.S. Army announced Oct. 12. Starting at 3:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon, 70 soldiers will arrive to the D.C. National Guard Armory. They […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–A Laurel man and woman are being sent to prison, him for seven years and her for four, after admitting to engineering a sex-for-pay scheme over the Internet, using teenage girls, a D.C. Superior Court judge has mandated. Dominique Emanuel Bell, 22, and Candice Ponder, 26, pleaded guilty to pandering, inducing or compelling a […]

Howard University will present a star-studded “One Night Only” Homecoming Gala Concert Cabaret” on Oct. 20 at the Howard Theatre to raise funds for the renovation of Founders Library. The enlightening evening will be headlined by graduates Debbie Allen, Phylicia Rashad, Taraji P. Henson, Wendy Robinson and Sean Combs. They will perform along with a […]

Howard University has named Elsie L. Scott, Ph.D., former president and chief executive of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, as the founding director of the Ron W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center. “I am excited to have been selected to be the first director of the Ron W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center,” […]