Category: Washington D.C. News

Mazi Holland, the Ward 1 events coordinator for the Obama For America campaign, has some advice for people in her district: vote early. “We are encouraging seniors to vote early or by absentee ballot because many of them have challenges getting to the polls,” she said. Ward 4 resident, Lozen Craft, has already decided she’ll […]

D.C. police resumed blood-alcohol tests for suspected drunken drivers September 28, two years after the program was suspended because of testing equipment flaws. A trained police operator will measure blood-alcohol content as police process an arrest, and police will also conduct field sobriety tests at the scene. The program was suspended in 2010 after inaccurately […]

A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced Sept. 21 to 15 years in prison for the shooting death of another man inside a Northeast apartment building earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said. Keyon Caldwell, 33, of D.C. pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Draynell Henderson, […]

A pair of brothers each received 10 years in jail Sept. 21 for their roles in a string of armed robberies of Washington D.C. taxi drivers last year, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said. Darrius Watts, 20, and his brother Gregory Watts, 19, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of armed […]

WASHINGTON – The nation’s oldest African liberation organization kicked off its centennial celebration Monday with a look back on the historic importance of freedom during the anti-apartheid movement. Howard University hosted the inaugural commemorative African National Congress Conference 2012, a three-day conference geared toward educating participants on the history, legacy and the movement to build […]

They officially banded together in 1971, 13 African-Americans who had been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. As members of Congress, they had a responsibility to defend the rights of all of their constituents. As Blacks, they felt it was their duty to make sure the legislative process was inclusive of people who looked […]

Silver Spring, Md– The Montgomery Parks Foundation, a Silver Spring, Md based fundraising and support group which promotes the benefits of the Montgomery County, Md. parks system to local residents and lawmakers, will partner with industry leaders in environmental education for an upcoming evening showcase of programs designed to enhance environmental literacy in the classroom. […]

Long before he came to Capitol Hill, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) was active in the fight for freedom. On Sept. 17, he paid homage to the nation’s progress in treating all of its citizens’ equally in a program that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. He spoke, appropriately, at the […]

WASHINGTON D.C.– A D.C. Superior Court jury found a 28 year-old District man guilty Sept. 14 of first-degree murder and other gun and assault charges in a shooting two years ago near a playground that left one man dead and two others wounded. The verdict marked the third time in a week in which a […]

Flashy sequined dresses, scribbled personal notes, records, custom-made guitars and countless other effects of the women who have rocked and rolled through the decades line the walls. Effects from the wedding ceremony of Sister Rosetta Tharpe sit inside one glass case, dresses of Tina Turner in another. Guitar riffs and drum patterns sound off in […]

To El Brown and Karen Francis, Sept. 11, 2001, was not just a terrible moment in time 11 years ago. To the women, both military spouses, Sept. 11 was only the beginning. For Francis it was the start of “a 22-month deployment, with care packages,” she said. Her husband experienced four active duty deployments and […]

To the D.C. delegation that attended the just-ended 2012 Democratic National Convention, the event was more of a pilgrimage than a party gathering. Those who traveled to the Democratic party confab in Charlotte, N.C. on behalf of the 600,000-plus residents of the nation’s capital, most of them Democrats, came with a clear mission. “We want […]