Category: Washington D.C. News

To the dismay of members of the D.C. Council, a D.C., the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) program has been slated to continue for at least another five years. The SOAR legislation provides vouchers to D.C. residents and is the only federally-funded voucher in the country. But what may appear to be a beneficial […]

Just days after District officials announced a rise in hate crimes against Blacks and those within the LGBTQI community, local non-profit Casa Ruby reported a third attack on its premises in two weeks. This assault, caught on surveillance March 12, allegedly shows Andrew Cook, the suspect police took into custody March 13, walking onto the […]

Members and leaders of the District’s teacher’s union recently took to the streets to protest their lack of a pay increase for several years. Thirty members of the Washington Teachers’ Union, led by its president Elizabeth Davis, convened a rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown D.C. on March 3. Elizabeth Davis, president of the Washington […]

Andrew McPhatter was fatally shot in Southeast D.C. on March 1. (Courtesy Photo) A recent wave of violence in Southeast, D.C. left one man dead after six shootings took place in a span of seven days. Six people were shot along Wheeler Road and one was murdered between Feb. 23 and March 1 as D.C. […]

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), and Delaware’s U.S. Sen. Tom Carper held a news conference on March 1 to announce that a bill granting the residential and commercial areas of the District of Columbia statehood was introduced and based on a plan used […]

As lawmakers debate the Affordable Care Act replacement in Congress, local pastors condemned the GOP version as being detrimental to the poor and elderly. Rev. Graylan Hagler Rev. Simeon Corum, a pastor at Goshen Worship Center in Forestville, Md., said he looked intently at his TV screen when Dr. Tom Price, Secretary of the US […]

The D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute recently released a report stating Black Washingtonians suffer higher rates of unemployment than residents of other races and the jobless gap has widened since the Great Recession. An institute report shows that Black Washingtonians have a higher unemployment rate than White residents. The institute’s report DC’s Black-White Employment Gap Continues […]

The replica of a statue of former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry — who was known as the city’s mayor for life — was unveiled at the John Wilson building on what would have been his 81st birthday. Cora Masters Barry addresses a group of politicians and residents who attended a reception March 6, where Mayor […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 33-year-old Maryland man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release for assaulting five women at knifepoint while they walked home from Washington, D.C., Metro stations. Demetrius Banks of Riverdale, Maryland, was found guilty in November of 23 felony counts following a four-week trial in Superior Court. […]

The D.C. Police Complaints Board recently suggested the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) appoint an “independent consultant” to investigate the actions of District police officers on Inauguration Day. The review raised concerns on how authorities responded to protests. The board, in a report on Feb. 27, stated D.C. police should begin an independent examination of the […]

The Nineteenth Street Baptist Church named Rev. Dr. Darryl Roberts as its new pastor. Roberts vowed to continue the church’s legacy in the vanguard of social change and justice. Rev. Dr. Darryl Roberts preaches at Mt. Welcome Missionary Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga. He said he plans to keep fighting for social justice and change […]