Category: Washington D.C. News

The D.C. Council voted Feb. 7 to impose a moratorium on the opening of additional strip clubs in Ward 5. Councilmember Vincent B. Orange, Sr. introduced the moratorium in response to concerns from residents who said the ward had been adversely affected by an overconcentration of strip clubs, topless bars, gentlemen’s clubs and adult entertainment […]

Health care, hospitality and the tech industry are the keys to the District’s future, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said in his State of the District address Tuesday. Gray said the city has enjoyed tremendous growth in a tight economy, but that the wealth had been spread unevenly. The District, Gray said, is the “No. 1 […]

Members of Occupy D.C. vowed Feb. 5 to continue to press for an end to economic inequity after a weekend of arrests and inspection sweeps by U.S. Park Police that all but shut down the twin encampments less than two blocks from the White House. While in other cities Occupy movement protest camps have been […]

Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced Feb. 1 that the District of Columbia will introduce new construction codes next month which, Gray said, would put the District at the forefront nationally for sustainable building practices. The District’s Construction Codes incorporate most of the model codes issued every three years by the International Code Council (ICC). The […]

An Arlington County, Va. judge removed herself in the controversial case of an African- American woman on trial for booing at a high school play which depicted Blacks as inferior. Jackie Carter, whose protests during a racially-offensive dance segment performance last year at her daughter’s school led to her arrest, received a three month legal […]

Southeast D.C. is getting in on the cupcake trend with the opening of a new shop in Anacostia, believed to be the first Black-owned cupcake shop east of the river. Besides offering the delectable delicacy, Olivia’s Cupcakes, 2318 Minnesota Ave. S.E., is also home to the Royelle’s Princess Party Palace, a room that allows young […]

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray joined Council Chairman Kwame Brown, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and developers Feb. 1 at the groundbreaking for The Shops at Dakota Crossing in Ward Five’s Fort Lincoln New Town. “The Shops at Dakota Crossing represents another exciting milestone in the continued retail renaissance of the District,” Gray said […]

When Howard University Men’s Basketball Coach Kevin Nickelberry talks to youth about bullying, he can tell who is being bullied. Having been bullied throughout most of his public school education in Prince George’s County, he recognizes their reaction to his very personal account of his ordeals. “I can always identify the kids who are being […]

WASHINGTON – Neglecting your teeth can kill you. Unfortunately, such was the story of Diamonte Driver, a 12-year-old Prince George’s County boy who died in 2007 after an infection from an abscessed tooth spread to his brain. Because Driver’s mother didn’t have dental insurance or Medicaid coverage, she couldn’t afford the simple tooth extraction that […]

As a young journalist, Gwen McKinney was inspired by social justice. For four years, she reported for the Philadelphia Tribune, the city’s Black newspaper. Later, she moved to Washington D.C. and became a Capitol Hill correspondent. “There is no such thing as objective journalism,” McKinney said in a phone interview with the AFRO. “So much […]

“My job is to make sure that you have an easy life,” said Anthony Lewis from the eighth floor Verizon board room of his Maryland office. Newly named vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Lewis, a native of Norfolk, Va. has big plans for the company he’s been a part of since 1986, known then […]

A Black woman faces up to one year in jail for vehemently protesting a racially-insensitive middle school dance production skit in Arlington last year. Jackie Carter was charged with disorderly conduct in public places, a class-one misdemeanor. A hearing on Jan. 26 will determine the judge in the General District Court for Arlington County before […]