Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

Deer Park Water, a popular bottled-water brand, launched a new campaign to promote plastic bottle recycling in this region. Following its Baltimore debut, the brand’s traveling exhibition, housed in a tractor trailer, visited various District locations, beginning with Georgetown and then local Safeway outlets, including the 6500 Piney Branch Road. The trailer was designed with […]

This past summer, a group of D.C. students became historians, anthropologists, researchers and archeologists as they attempted to uncover a forgotten facet of their city. The middle- and high school students, accompanied by scholars, set out to learn about the lives of the African Americans buried in the pre-civil war era in the woods of […]

Councilman Michael A. Brown (I–At Large), other DC leaders and activist groups kicked off a new website to promote DC Statehood efforts. Residents hope the new website, www.statehooddc.com will take the District’s statehood campaign global using today’s technology and social mediums. US Shadow Representative Michael Panetta (D-DC) agreed the new outreach campaign can dispel negative […]

The last few weeks have seen a spike in homicides and violent crimes across D.C. and neighboring suburbs, particularly in Prince George’s County. Since Oct. 21, there have been more than 12 homicides and many assaults and robberies around the District. On Halloween night there were six separate shootings in the District alone, one of […]

A well-known community activist in the District publicly changed his political party recently sending a message to the local leaders that young Democrats are tired of the status quo. The outspoken activist, Ron Moten, 41, publicly announced his decision to switch from Democrat to Republican, which may impact next year’s council race. Moten called himself […]

On a recent summer day, U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-4) had the unique opportunity to soar with the Falcons of the 113th Wing, District of Columbia Air National Guard (DCANG). “It was the ride of a lifetime,” she said as she suited up and boarded the aircraft for an F-16 orientation flight at Joint Base […]

A recent Supreme Court ruling may soon send home thousands of federal inmates convicted on crack cocaine charges. In 2007, it was reported in the AFRO that nationwide 19,500 federal crack offenders were eligible for reduced sentences. From that group only 269 federal inmates from the District would be eligible over the next 30 years. […]