Category: Washington D.C. News

On Oct. 17, the SunTrust Foundation will present Capital Area Asset Builders with its first-ever Lighting the Way Award for their Matched Savings Program. The presentation will occur from 8-9:30 p.m. at SunTrust Bank, 1445 New York Avenue, NW. The award, which includes a $50,000 grant, recognizes CAAB for the impact they have made in […]

The Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development along with over 50 community partners joined D.C. (D), D.C. Council members, and local District leaders to celebrate the 1st Annual Community Development Week. Bowser issued a proclamation to officially declare Oct. 10-14 as Community Development Week in the District of Columbia, which kicked off with a […]

Tennis champion Andre Agassi joined Rocketship Education and Woodland Terrace community members to celebrate the opening of the first Rocketship Education school on the East Coast. Rocketship Rise, developed by the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, is located in Ward 8’s Woodland Terrace neighborhood, and has been championed as a model community-education platform, where parents […]

(SILVER SPRING, MD.) –– Radio One, Inc., the largest Black-owned multi-media company congratulates its founder and chairperson, Ms. Cathy Hughes, as the new namesake for Howard University’s School of Communications. In honor of her lifetime commitment to excellence in the media industry, the university will officially rename the school, Cathy Hughes School of Communications during its […]

The Asbury United Methodist Church, located at 926 11th St NW, will hold a Women’s Day celebration on Oct. 16. The theme of the observance is “Growing in Blessedness.” Rev. Alexis F. Brown, campus minister for Howard University, and Associate Pastor at Asbury UMC will deliver the sermon at the 10 a.m. worship service. There […]

No motive has been released by the Metropolitan Police Department in the Sept. 29 homicide near the H Street corridor in Northeast D.C. According to officials, the victim was Eugene Clarke, 39, a resident of Temple Hills, Md. He was fatally shot around 3:55 a.m. Eugene Clarke was shot and killed in a homicide in […]

In the District, Democrats showed their influence on the nation’s capitol for the Oct. 9 presidential debate between Democratic Party candidate Hillary R. Clinton and Republican contender Donald Trump. The Ward 7 Democrats were among the residents who watched the debate at one of the District of Columbia’s political clubs and bars and restaurants that […]

A playhouse located in Ward 8 recently sponsored a theater production and a discussion session that focused on homicides in the Black community. On Oct. 9, the Anacostia Playhouse hosted a play, brownsville song (b-side for tray), written by playwright Kimber Lee, that centered on the shooting death of a promising young Black man in […]

The owner of a District of Columbia restaurant chain and a Ward 8-based social service non-profit broke ground recently on a venture that could produce more than 100 jobs and provide numerous opportunities for residents east of the Anacostia River. On Oct. 6, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D), D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8), […]

Open Door Baptist Church hosts a annual community day Oct. 15. The event will be held at the church, located at 5600 Central Avenue, SE from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The event will include free health screenings for glucose, blood pressure and dental checks. The event will also inform participants on breast cancer awareness information, HIV […]

WASHINGTON – Inside one of the theaters at the Regal Cinema movie complex in Washington’s Gallery Place/Chinatown, the audience of mostly millennial’s sat in one of the darkened theaters and laughed loudly at the dialogue and pictures on the big screen. But it wasn’t a film that had the audience chuckling. It was the presidential debate. […]

Racial justice tops the opening of the Supreme Court’s new term. When Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in Feb. conservative Republicans vowed to stall President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. The eight-member Court is limping forward with race questions involving the death penalty, voting districts, jury deliberations, and the name of the […]