Category: Washington D.C. News

The Rock Creek Conservancy will conduct its Fourth Annual Extreme Trash Clean-Up of the park area along North Portal Drive and along East Beach Drive from 9 a.m. to noon on April 14. Cleanup is to begin at North Portal and East Beach Drives, N.W. and is a way for students to earn community service […]

Virginia McLaurin, affectingly known as Granma Virginia, was honored recently by family members, the staff and students at Sharp Health School in Northwest Washington on the occasion of her 103rd birthday. She has served there for the past 20 years as a Grandparent volunteer. The various classes presented skits and other performances; Kimili Anderson gave […]

Very few people trying to move up in the business world can avoid it: networking. Whether employee or employer, the ability to network is an essential skill to have. For African American women looking to break through the glass ceiling in public relations, the essential task of networking is a little easier with help from […]

Washington, D.C. Councilman Marion Barry has come under fire for comments he made about the Asian business community following his victory in a primary election. According to The Washington Post, at an April 3 rally following his victory in the Ward 8 primary elections, TV cameras caught Barry speak out against Asian-owned businesses in the […]

Mayor Vincent C. Gray swore in nine members of the District’s Financial Literacy Council April 4, which will help improve programs that educate District residents in how to manage their personal finances more effectively. “Basic financial literacy is the essential prerequisite, along with working hard, to succeeding in our society,” Gray said at a news […]

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies has announced a partnership with AME Church Bishops Vashti Murphy McKenzie and Adam Jefferson Richardson, Jr., and GREEN DMV to help local congregations in Washington, D.C. raise their environmental awareness. GREEN DMV, a non-profit organization that promotes the use of clean energy and the development of green […]

The Howard University School of Divinity has received a $1 million, three-year research grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc., to study African-American churches in three cities and one rural location and document the best practices in those communities that lead to the spiritual, physical, social and mental health of black congregations. Divinity school faculty and […]

Hundreds of aspiring child models answered the call to become America’s Next Top Kid Model during the Kiddie Katwalk model search and reality show auditions on March 17. The Kiddie Katwalk was presented by Spoiled and Rotten Kids Spa and hosted by Fox 5 News Anchor Allison Seymour, with on-air correspondence by Marcus A. Williams. […]

It was a lack luster day in the District of Columbia as voters took to the polls in the April 3 Primary Election. The results – incumbents overwhelmingly held onto their seats. It was a great night for Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) who ran unopposed. Evans has been in […]

About 400 seniors attended the first “Mature Workers Job Fair” hosted by the DC Department of Employment Services to attract resident 55 and over seeking employment opportunities. The event, held at the Martin Luther King Library on March 29, was filled with seniors, dressed in business attire, with briefcases and laptops, eagerly seeking jobs. “We […]

D.C.’s Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) has a new home in the city’s U Street corridor. At a news conference last week, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) Director Jesús Aguirre said the new DPR central office is now at 1250 U St., N.W. The move is designed […]

The District will celebrate the 150th year without slavery in April with a series of lectures, concerts, films, a street festival and a parade. The Compensated Emancipation Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on April 16, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed nine months later in 1863. The Compensation Act freed more than 3,000 […]