Category: Washington D.C. News

Agape Embassy Ministries, 5775 Barclays Dr., Suite 7, is scheduled to host their annual community fair on Sept. 23 from noon – 4 p.m. The fair will feature food, music, rides and games for the Kingstowne community. The event is free and open to all ages.

Athleta is hosting its first annual Style Evolution Fashion Show on Sept, 24, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 3229 M. St., NW. The fashion show will give audience members an insider’s look into the life of being a stylist. Audience members will receive the full VIP treatment as they are given detailed insight […]

The eighth annual D.C. State Fair will be on Sept. 24 located at 375 and 425 M. St., SW  from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free and highlights the District’s traditions of growing and gardening and various foods. The D.C. State Fair will also include competitions to find the perfect mumbo sauce, […]

The season finale of All the Way Live Tuesdays is scheduled to be held on Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Anacostia Arts Center, located on 1231 Good Hope Rd., SE. This weekly cypher will include some of D.C.’s  most popular artists performing live, such as WPGC’s Joe Clair, Uptown XO, Head Roc, and […]

The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an employer-led coalition focused on hiring opportunity youth, will hold its annual career fair on Sept. 20. The career fair, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 810 7th ST NW, is expected to offer almost 1,800 interviews and jobs in the retail industry to D.C. youth from ages 16 to […]

The D.C. Drug Court on Sept 20 will be honoring National Recovering Month with a commencement ceremony and cookout for roughly 30 graduates who are on the road to recovery. The ceremony is scheduled to be held at the North Michigan Park and Recreation Center, 1333 Emerson Street, NE, at 11:30 a.m. (AP Photo/Stephanie Zollshan) […]

The second annual Duke Ellington School of the Arts gala, “Evening at Duke’s Place,” is scheduled to be held on Sept. 16 at the Ritz Carlton in Northwest Washington D.C. “It’s benefitting the many young people across the District of Columbia and Virginia and Maryland, who apply to be admitted to the Duke Ellington School […]

SILVER SPRING, Maryland – Beginning in the mid-1970s, war and political turbulence led a large number of Ethiopians to flee their home country. Many of these emigrants came to the United States, with a particularly high number settling in the Washington region. Thanks to a welcoming environment and local educational institutions, as well as legislation […]

At a time when thousands in Texas are recovering from the floods caused by Hurricane Harvey and 6.2 million Floridians are in the dark as a result of Hurricane Irma, an army of compassionate individuals has ferried first responders, food trucks and utility crews to Southern states to help those in need. Washington D.C.-based Capital […]

Vernon Davis, a Washington D.C. native who currently plays tight end for the Washington Football team, recently sponsored a clothes give-a-way at a local charity that helps homeless youth. Davis shook hands, took pictures and selfies, and talked to young people at the event, Vernon’s Closet, Sept. 8 at Covenant House Washington in Southeast. Vernon […]

Redlining, a discriminatory pattern of disinvestment and obstructive lending practices that impede home ownership among Blacks and other people of color, has played out against racial, political and socioeconomic constructs in Washington D.C. for generations. It is now being vividly documented in a new exhibit, “Undesign the Redline,” at Pepco Edison Place Gallery and facilitated […]

Derek B. Turner, arrested and charged last week for the murder of Andrew McPhatter in March in Southeast Washington D.C., was so obsessed with his alleged exploits he scoured the Internet for articles about the shooting for more than a week after the victim’s death, court records show. Turner, 26, a Ward 8 resident, was […]