Category: Washington D.C. News

Five Howard University Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets were commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army during a May 10 ceremony in Howard’s Armour J. Blackburn University Center. It marked the 94st consecutive year that members of Howard’s Bison Battalion have taken the oath of office. After the students took the oath, family […]

It hit me like a ton of bricks, the text from my sister: “Chuck Brown died today.” I sat silent for a moment, processing the words, wondering if they were true. Chuck had been the object of death rumors before. This could be another, I thought. Usually I would head to the Internet for to […]

Former D.C. mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown, who said he was paid by Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign to undermine then-incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty, called on Gray to resign after one of the mayor’s campaign staffers pleaded guilty to providing funds to Brown, destroying evidence and obstructing the investigation into the case and another was accused of […]

Washington, D.C. is staging a farewell to Chuck Brown, native son and the godfather of Go-Go, that will begin with a 11-hour public viewing May 29 at the Howard Theater and conclude with a three-hour public memorial service at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center May 31, Brown’s family and D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray […]

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), already upset from being denied a chance to testify against a measure that would ban late-term abortions in the District, rebuked the House of Representatives for approving a non-binding measure calling for active-duty military personnel to be exempt from the District’s gun laws. According to The Washington Post, the […]

Mothers from around the country joined law enforcement and students in the nation’s capitol, recently, to launch a new campaign comprised of national organizations seeking to end the drug war. Representatives from several organizations shared powerful stories of losing loved ones to drug prohibition-related violence, incarceration, overdose and addiction. The group also unveiled the “Mom’s […]

Thomas Gore, a key campaign finance official with Vincent Gray’s 2010 Mayoral campaign, pled guilty to election violations on May 22. The 56-year-old Gore pled guilty to one count of obstructing justice and three counts of making campaign contributions in the name of another person. Gore, assistant campaign treasurer for Gray, admitted to paying Sulaimon […]

Never in her wildest dreams did Monica Fenton, 58, believe she would become a mother again. Since September, 2003, when she was falsely accused by DC Public Schools of administering corporal punishment and dismissed from her duties, she never expected to be raising three little boys in addition to mentoring students and being involved with […]

Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown announced May 15 that a deal had been worked out in the city’s budget negotiations which would fund renovations for 24 playgrounds in the District. “Every child in the District should have a safe and inviting place to play,” Gray said. “Working together, Chairman Brown […]