Category: Washington D.C. News

The SunTrust Foundation recognized a local D.C. nonprofit for providing low income residents with programs to help them learn financial literacy. On Oct. 17, SunTrust presented Capital Area Asset Builders (CAAB) with its first Lighting the Way award for the organization’s positive impact on the Washington D.C. area by promoting financial education. The award included […]

Long-standing Black churches are disappearing from the nation’s capital one at a time, the culprit – residential only parking. As the city’s new, mostly White residents push for special neighborhood parking, they are inadvertently forcing churches out of the District of Columbia, city officials and church members said. On K Street in Washington’s southeast neighborhood, […]

Improving police-community relations has been an important initiative in the District, neighboring Prince George’s County and several other police departments throughout the United States in the wake of a number of killings by police of unarmed Black men and women. In an effort to bring the community and officers closer together, D.C. and Prince George’s […]

Money is scarce for Tiana White, who lives in a homeless shelter and says she’s unable to work her retail job due to chronic back pain from a car accident. The mother of three, working on her GED at Academy of Hope Adult Public Charter School in Northeast, estimates she spends $50 a week commuting […]

Synthetic drugs have forced their way into the D.C. metropolitan area. According to an October 2015 University of Maryland study more than half of synthetic drug users are teenagers. However, those in their upper 20s and lower 30s have also suffered repercussions from the drugs. In August, synthetic drug were cited as a contributing factor […]

Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor John Davis recently delivered his presentation on the state of the District of Columbia’s public schools (DCPS), focusing on schools east of the Anacostia River. On Oct. 18, Davis broke with the tradition of delivering an address from a podium. Instead, he allowed principals, teachers, staff and students to present what […]

The AFRO American Newspaper in connection with it’s 125th Anniversary year-long series of celebrations will present the Coalition for Blind Justice Town Hall meeting on Oct. 20 from 2-4 p.m. at the Howard Theatre. This town hall meeting and panel discussion will include elected officials, community leaders, media professionals, entertainers, civil servants, representatives from law […]

The National Black Public Relations Society will be hosting a political cipher: Why We Still Matter in America in response to the current political climate and its surrounding issues of individual rights, race, gender and policy in America. The panel will be held on Oct. 20 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Thurgood Marshall Center, 1816 […]

On Oct. 22 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Sankofa Video Books & Café, located at 2714 Georgia Avenue NW; the Lukumi People Music & Indigenous Bohemian Arts group will be hosting an event that will pay homage to the Egùn (ancestors) and Òrísá (deity of nature). The event is free and open to […]

Students from School Without Walls and Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., recently participated in the AT&T-sponsored Cyberbullying Film Invitational in New York City, part of the All American High School Film Festival. The entrants had to submit eight-minute films aimed at raising national awareness about cyberbullying, a hate crime that can take place […]

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, an associate professor at John Jay College of the City University of New York and a civil-rights attorney, plans to discuss her book “The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Fight for Justice” on  Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW.  The book discussion […]

The District of Columbia Council recently passed a bill on first reading that would change the way medical marijuana is managed and regulated in the city. On Oct. 11, the D.C. Council gave its unanimous approval, 13-0, of the formal Medical Marijuana Reciprocity Amendment Act of 2015, which would expand lab testing to autonomous and […]