Category: Washington D.C. News

With temperature forecasts in the upper-90s to 100° this week, and a heat index of over 100° F, Montgomery County health officials are encouraging residents to find places where they can stay cool and to take precautions to avoid heat-related illnesses.  Most at risk are young children, the elderly, and people with health problems such […]

The Center for Business Inclusion and Diversity recently honored 100 minority and women-owned businesses as top companies for the mid-Atlantic Region in 2012 at a luncheon in Adelphi. Produced in conjunction with The Pinder Group, LLC and greiBO media, the banquet brought together minority and women entrepreneurs at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center on […]

Twenty years after he retired as head administrator of the Metropolitan Police Department, Isaac Fulwood Jr. is still known around Washington D.C. as “Chief.” These days, instead of supervising thousands of police officers, he serves as chairman of the U.S. Parole Commission. Always passionate about keeping youth out of trouble, he has mentored teenage boys […]

Pepco is still in the hot seat over how one of the region’s principal electric power providers responded to massive power outages throughout the Metropolitan Washington area in the wake of a violent summer storm June 29. If a July 13 hearing conducted by the D.C. Council is any indicator, Pepco executives will be sweating […]

Ed Ellis of Temple Hills said when both he and his mother were issued speeding tickets in Washington D.C. while driving downhill, it wasn’t the $150 fines that bothered him as much as the unfair location of the speed camera—at the bottom of a hill on Branch Avenue. The problem is, according to Ellis, that […]

They came out early on the Fourth of July—men, women and children, many dressed in patriotic red, white and blue. Before the parade, barbecue and fireworks, they gathered at the National Archives in Northwest Washington to kick off the holiday with a reading of the Declaration of Independence by four descendants of original signers. But […]

As fireworks lit up the sky over the nation’s capital on Independence Day, D.C. police combed two neighborhoods in Northwest Washington investigating shootings that left two people dead and six injured. The first incident occurred just after 8 p.m. in the 5000 block of First Street, NW. Police who responded to a call for shots […]

D.C. government officials are bracing for a battle against business owners and developers who are challenging a law that requires businesses to hire D.C. residents, authorities said. D.C. City Council members have long complained that although the District’s First Source Employment Agreement has been on the books since 1984, enforcement bottlenecks and administrative loopholes have […]

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW) has teamed up with Microsoft Corporation and several National Football League players to combine athletics and computer/video technology all in a weekend camp. According to the BGCGW, Washington Redskins, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons players are spending the weekend of July 6-7, […]

The city’s Caribbean festival may have left for Baltimore, but there is one group in D.C. that still gets to put its culture on display in a summer festival. The third annual D.C. Africa Festival will be held July 21 at Banneker Field in Northwest Washington. The idea is to introduce Washingtonians to African culture […]

The nation’s capital is not the same town that George Clinton dubbed “Chocolate City” in the early 1970s. Blacks in D.C.—then about 80 percent of the population, Clinton figures—embraced the title with pride. In Clinton’s Chocolate City, President Muhammad Ali called the White House home with Aretha Franklin as his first lady. Richard Pryor formed […]