Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

School Without Walls students, faculty and supporters marched to the White House in peaceful protest on March 27 to call for justice for Trayvon Martin. Martin, a Florida teenager was shot to death in February while walking unarmed through a gated community in Sanford, Fla. About 300 students marched in circular motion in front of […]

A coalition of churches, community groups and labor organizations committed to ensure that District residents receive their fair share of construction jobs in the District has filed a claim with the D.C. Human Rights against one of the largest contractors in the District, alleging discriminatory hiring practices. According to the claim filed Jan. 28, by […]

One of the best kept secrets among incarcerated people who are incarcerated is that they have the right to vote if they are pre-trialed or sentenced for a misdemeanor. Once inmates are classified and found eligible to vote, they should be given the opportunity to register. But as advocates for voting rights report these rights […]

Precipitation didn’t stop several thousand people from massing in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. March 24 to rally for justice in the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, the head of a neighborhood watch program in Sanford, Fla., after he said that Martin looked suspicious. Since then, 911 recordings of […]

The Institute of the Black World 21st Century hosted “It’s Nation Time,” a national symposium commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. The convention saw 10,000 Black people gather to adopt a National Black Political Agenda and establish a process to hold candidates accountable to Black interests at […]

He promised to bring down Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration after his firing early last year. But Sulaimon Brown’s revenge may extend way beyond what he anticipated. The former minor mayoral candidate dominated the news in 2011 when he accused Gray’s campaign of illegally paying him to heckle rival, then-Mayor Adrian Fenty during the 2010 election. […]

The founders of a ministry with a focus on building a church with the “least of these” as described in Biblical scripture directed a play about the lives of homeless men and women. The play is a riveting story of men and women living on the streets of the District as they become untangled from […]