Category: Washington D.C. News

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich launched a nuclear attack on the needy last week by using ugly stereotypes to argue that people are poor because they are lazy and the solution to widespread poverty is scrapping child labor laws and putting poor kids to work in menial jobs. He said in a speech in Council […]

The Olender Foundation hosted its 26th annual awards, Dec. 6, with top honors going to a trailblazing civil rights activist, a newspaper publisher whose charitable work uplifts young people’s lives, and a judge who promotes human rights worldwide. Singer Debra Tidwell and the award-winning jazz ensemble, Greg Twombley and the Washingtonians, kicked off the show […]

Five female students have alleged in a lawsuit that Howard University failed to take action when a supervisor of a campus work-study program on campus allegedly sexually and verbally assaulted them. According to the lawsuit filed on behalf of the students, George Bright-Abu, a supervisor of the work-study program at The Founders Library on campus […]

Construction is underway at CityMarket at O Street, a $300 million mixed-use development that was fast-tracked last month for federal funding by the Obama administration. The project will restore the historic; 19th century O Street Market building, creating a multi-use development that will include a new 71,000-square-foot Giant Food Store, residences, a Cambria Suites Hotel, […]

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 […]