Category: Washington D.C. News

The executive director of Youth Tech, a group linked to former D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr., has agreed to plead guilty to lying on her 2009 tax return. Danita Doleman, who had worked as a senior policy manager in the city’s homeland security department faces charges of failing to report $20,000 in income she […]

My grandmother was quite dignified and often came up with lofty axioms to keep us on a narrow path; birds of a feather flock together, association brings assimilation. Every now and then a ringer would slip in, such as ‘when love lights on a cow turd it always sticks,’ her not so delicate description of […]

For those who don’t recognize this phrase, it was the twice-weekly call that let the neighborhood know the AFRO paper boy or girl was in the block. Or maybe you thought his name was “Diddy AFRO” as did Brenda Payne Durrington. She and her sister have been part of the AFRO since they were little […]

A senior trip to Guatemala was an eye-opening journey for Adrienne Perry who learned that oral health care does not exist for many adults and children. Dentistry, a foreign concept in many rural areas of the Central American country, would become a quest for the young traveler from Conyers, Ga. That discovery also reverberated closer […]

Dozens of expectant mothers and parents of newborns celebrated life and healthy pregnancies at the Ninth Annual Healthy DC Mom Baby Shower on May 4, at United Medical Center in southeast Washington. The event hosted by the D.C. Department of Health (DOH) Healthy Start project and the United Medical Center, was part of a campaign […]

Veteran servicemen and women from 27 different states around the nation joined in solidarity this week at the Truth and Justice 2012 Summit on Military Sexual Violence to speak out against sexual assault and harassment in the armed forces. Tears flowed freely during the daylong event, which culminated with a march to Capitol Hill where […]

Recently, President Obama’s administration awarded grants of over $728 million for the renovation and construction of health centers around the country. DC and Maryland centers snagged more than $15 million for projects designed to boost local government’s ability to care for low and mid-income patients while creating jobs in the process. The funds were made […]

Former D.C. Council Member Harry Thomas Jr. was sentenced by a federal judge May 3 to 38 months in prison for stealing more than $350,000 in taxpayer funds. Thomas pleaded guilty in January to using nearly $350,000 from a nonprofit with which he was affiliated. He used the funds, originally intended for youth sports programs, […]

In the wake of Mayor Vincent Gray’s proposed budget cuts to critical housing, homelessness, and family support services, sixty homeless children and parents interrupted the Budget Support Act hearing. April 30, and handed their city representatives hand-painted houses with the message “Kids Need Homes” written on them, as a young man sang a gospel song. […]

Achievement Preparatory Academy (Achievement Prep), a public charter school serving 210 scholars east of the Anacostia River, is among the highest performing public schools in the city, according to 2011 DC Comprehensive Assessment System (DC-CAS) scores. “Over eighty percent of our students come from low-income homes, 100 percent are African American and they are outperforming […]

Last week, hundreds of thousands of people attended a series of events in Washington focusing on science and science related fields. These events included a White House Forum on Women and Girls in STEM, a pair of health policy forums, and a science and technology festival. The largest of the events was the science fest, […]

Howard University Geriatrics Division has been awarded a grant by the District of Columbia Office of Aging (DCOA) to operate fitness and wellness programs at the city’s new Hayes Senior Wellness Center. John M. Thompson, executive director of DCOA, said he was pleased that the external review panel selected Howard. He expressed confidence that under […]