Category: Washington D.C. News

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI and IRS agents searched the home Friday of D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr., who’s been under investigation for several months after being accused of diverting more than $300,000 in city funds for personal use, a law enforcement official said. The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of […]

Diamond Whitaker, 20, and her friend, Mary-L. Pope, 24, both unemployed young mothers, sat on their portable chairs wrapped in blankets with umbrellas protecting them from the weather hoping for the chance of a lifetime. The women posted themselves in front of the Hubbard Place Apartments located in a rapidly gentrifying area in the District, […]

Since mid-October, 11 cabdrivers in the District have been the target of robberies or car jackings, however, cabbies say many more go unreported. On Nov. 26, an adult identified as 25-year-old Henry Delonta Williams of Southeast, D.C., and a juvenile were arrested and charged with three of the cab robberies.  Detectives are continuing to investigate […]

Grand Executive Director Adm. William Sizemore welcomed attendees to the launch of A Dialogue on Race in America series, offered as a community service of the Washington Interdependence Council’s ongoing Benjamin Banneker commemorative mission. The event was held at the historic House of the Temple landmark, designed by John Russell Pope. The event featured popular […]

Three prominent Ward Four Democrats were honored at the Second Annual Ethel Delaney Lee Dinner on Nov. 18, in appreciation of their political and community activism. Former Democratic National Committeewoman for the District of Columbia, Barbara Lett Simmons, former president of the Ward Four Democrats, George Fenderson and former assistant to President Bill Clinton, John […]

Helping Hands, founded by Gregory Baldwin, 45, provided 500 Thanksgiving turkeys, hams, grocery bags, a hot meal and haircuts for neighborhood children, parents and elders to several Southeast neighborhoods on Nov. 19, just in time for them to look good and feel great for the upcoming holidays. As a troubled youth, Baldwin, a veteran “street […]

WASHINGTON — Chelsea died of stigma. The official death certificate lists the cause as pneumonia. But Dr. Sohail Rana, a Howard University pediatrician who specializes in HIV/AIDS, says that’s not what killed her. “I had been her doctor since she was a little child,” Rana said slowly. “She liked to call me dad.” Rana explained […]

A former kindergarten aide, library secretary and coach at a Manassas, Va., elementary school was arrested Nov. 15 on four counts of sexually abusing a male student there in the 1990s, The Washington Post reported. Steffon Rodney Christian, 48, is accused of repeatedly performing sex acts on a boy in Christian’s home beginning in 1993 […]

Civil rights activists, Black historians and other notables gathered at Georgetown University to pay tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., 70, for a lifetime of human and civil rights achievement. Author, radio host and Georgetown sociology professor, Michael Eric Dyson, PhD, hosted the Nov. 7 event. The Rev. Al Sharpton opened the evening with […]

The District of Columbia’s first-ever ALDI grocery store, 901 17th St., N.E., opened on Nov 10. As shown here at the ribbon cutting: Jeffey C. Baehr, VP, Fredericksburg Division, ALDI, Kwami Brown, chairman, DC City Council, Councilman Tommy Wells; Allstair Hinds, new store manager; Councilman Harry Thomas Jr., and Kevin Besbitt Jr., celebrated as the […]