Category: Washington D.C. News

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 […]

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 […]