Category: Washington D.C. News

WASHINGTON, D.C. – David Clarke isn’t a cop or a truant officer, but for a few years now he has taken his fight against truancy directly to students’ front doors. Behind those doors, Clarke often finds students and their families in crisis causing unexcused absences. Clarke, the admissions director for the six D.C. schools operated […]

One day after students waged a protest calling for his resignation, University of the District of Columbia President Allen Sessoms faced the D.C. Council to answer questions about controversial expenditures from the university’s budget on March 8. Sessoms repeatedly answered many of the same questions about his travel expenses to foreign countries. Council members inquired […]

Hundreds of nurses dressed in red jackets picketed outside the grounds of the Washington Hospital Center on March 5 demanding a safe staffing plan to care for patients. For many of the nurses this second day of picketing was a hard pill to swallow. The original one-day walkout was held on March 4, when over […]

The cold weather is about to come to an end, which usually heralds spring, a time of new life. But for some Washington, D.C. residents, it can signal the end of an old as rising temperatures usually mean an increase in the number of evictions in the District. According to the US Marshals Service, there […]

WASHINGTON- With a cell phone in one hand and a group of cheerleaders on the sideline, teenagers can easily make a fight viral in less than 30 seconds. Washington, D.C. Metro riders are all too familiar with this as two brutal fights involving youth surfaced on local and national blog sites. Two recorded fights on […]

The firestorm ignited by Sulaimon Brown, a former mayoral candidate who told The Washington Post Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign gave him money and promised him a job in return for his attacks on then-incumbent Adrian Fenty, will leave indelible scorch marks on Gray’s administration, political analysts say. “It doesn’t bode well for an independent, strong […]

There is, perhaps, no name more synonymous with Washington, D.C., than Ben’s Chili Bowl. Known for its half smokes and spicy chili, the 53-year-old restaurant has been a pillar on the U Street corridor since its opening and is now being preserved and celebrated in an exhibit at George Washington University’s Estelle and Melvin Gelman […]

Howard University students, many of them soaked from afternoon rains, took to the streets of Washington, D.C. March 6 to raise money to support their efforts to help residents of Haiti and five U.S. cities during their spring break. The students were part of the WHUR 96.3 Helping Hands radiothon, according to a press release […]