Category: Washington D.C. News

The second annual DC-CAPital Stars Talent Competition and Night of DC-CAPital Stars Gala drew more than 400 persons to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 8. The show kicked off with a tribute to Michael Jackson featuring a medley of song and dance featuring the DC-CAPital Stars Talent Competition semi-finalists.?Then […]

Mahogany Woodland is a young Prince George’s County native and a person of many talents.  She’s a teacher, has her postgraduate degree and now can add author to her list of titles. Woodland’s first book, Freshman Honeys was recently released.  It is a book that, while fiction, definitely has some hints of things she and […]

In the wake District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s startling revelation late last year that she’d fired  teachers for having sex with students, Councilman Kwame Brown has proposed a bill that would make it a criminal offense for a public school teacher to become sexually involved with a student –  regardless of the pupil’s […]

While the scarcity of jobs has posed a big problem for the economy as a whole, it has been even worse in Washington, D.C., where the unemployment rate currently hovers around 12 percent. And for the city’s youth, who are often overlooked in favor of older, experienced workers, the statistics are even more devastating. Officials […]

LAUREL – The condition of the Thomas J.S. Waxter Center for female juvenile offenders is so bad that Department of Juvenile Services Secretary Donald DeVore told Capital News Service during a tour last week that the facility recently stopped accepting girls into its high-security program. Also, several girls who have lived at Waxter reported through […]

(March 17, 2010) – Nearly 150 D.C. students, parents and school faculty embarked on the annual College Round-Up in Tarboro, N.C., led by Councilmember Kwame R. Brown. This marks the third year that Brown has escorted D.C. high school students to the event, where many students received on-the-spot offers from many Historically Black Colleges and […]

(March 17, 2010) – Mahogany Woodland is a young Prince George’s County native and a person of many talents. She’s a teacher, has her postgraduate degree and now can add author to her list of titles. Woodland’s first book, Freshman Honeys was recently released. It is a book that, while fiction, definitely has some hints […]

(March 10, 2010) – Since same-sex marriage became a reality last week in the District of Columbia, excited couples have prepared to make their way to the altar, embarking on a union that is still prohibited in most states and jurisdictions. To date, just five other states, including Massachusetts and Iowa, allow such marriages. Mayor […]

(March 10, 2010) – With a March 18 deadline set by the White House for the passage of the president’s marquee health care reform legislation, supporters and dissenters ramped up their lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., this week. On March 9, more than 50 major labor, organizational, and religious leaders—under the aegis of Health Care […]

(March 10, 2010) – Scores of Howard University students took to the streets and local celebrities lent their support at WHUR 96.3 radio during a 12-hour radiothon to raise money to finance the students’ Alternative Spring Break of helping others in cities across America. The students raised $25,350 to fund their efforts in Atlanta, Chicago, […]

(March 10, 2010) – Census Bureau officials are working towards 100 percent participation in the 2010 census and they’re seeking help from myriad and innovative sources—including the non-profit sector. “It is really important that we get the word out any way we can,” said Cheryl Harrington, head of Prince George’s Complete Count Committee. “We need […]

(March 10, 2010) – Myths and falsehoods about the census have long played a role in people’s reluctance to participate. But with questionnaires for the decennial survey about to go out in the mail, U. S. Census Bureau officials remain focused on getting the word out that the March 15 count will be legitimate. They […]