Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown, recently voted vice chairman by his council colleagues, said he called for an investigation of his campaign finance funds and is completely cooperating with the Metropolitan Police Department and the D.C. Office of Campaign Finance. “I didn’t have much to give,” Brown told the AFRO on July 2. “But I’m […]

Opponents of Arizona’s unprecedented immigration law are claiming a partial victory today after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all but one of four controversial provisions. The court reaffirmed the federal government’s sole governance in enforcing laws against illegal immigration. In doing so, it negated parts of Arizona’s law that allowed police officers to arrest, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who defeated a primary challenge this year despite being the target of a House ethics investigation, has been on a medical leave for two weeks and is being treated for exhaustion, his office announced Monday. In a three-sentence news release, Jackson’s office disclosed that the Democrat went […]

Two boys, ages 7 and 8, and their adult chaperone were wounded June 25 by stray gunfire in the latest episode of street gunplay in a southeast Washington neighborhood. Police said that shortly before 12:30 pm, an unidentified gunman opened fire on another person in southeast D.C., hitting the two boys, 7 and 8, who […]

Local lawmakers in Washington, D.C. on June 22 enacted what activists are calling the nation’s “most robust” anti-bulling law. Surrounded by students, teachers and anti-bullying advocates, Mayor Vincent C. Gray signed The Youth Bullying Prevention Act of 2012 into law at the Wilson Building. The measure would protect children from hostile behavior in D.C. schools, […]