An overnight shooting left a young man dead on Sept. 25 in Northeast, D.C. according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Police said the shooting happened early Sunday morning around 2:45 a.m. in the 400 block of Riggs Road, NE. Authorities responded to a call for gunshots in the area of Nicholson Street and Kensington Place. […]
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D.C. Residents Take Control of Rental Housing By Buying Building
A dilapidated affordable housing complex recently began renovation in Northwest D.C. after being purchased by tenants. Homestead Apartments in Northwest D.C. began renovations on Sept. 23rd. (Photos by Linda Poulson) On Sept. 23 tenants, housing officials, and city officials gathered to preserve affordable housing at Homestead Apartments, located at 812 Jefferson St. NW, in the […]
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D.C. Residents Gear Up to Vote
While the District of Columbia has always voted for the Democratic Party nominee for president since becoming an Electoral College jurisdiction in 1964, a group of political scientists recently urged city residents to cast a ballot in the Nov. 8 general election anyway. Clarence Lusane says the country is facing one of the most dangerous […]
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Presidential Debate Leaves Viewers Uneasy and Unmoved
HUNS – A watch party for the first presidential debate of 2016 in Busboys and Poets, filled with Democrat Hillary Clinton supporters, gave her televised clash of ideas with Republican nominee Donald Trump the feel of a boisterous Super Bowl party. Viewers jeered the opposing team, in this case Trump, applauded Clinton’s zingers and rebuttals and […]
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Sean Combs Spreads the Love with $1 Million Check to Howard
No matter how he’s addressed – Puff Daddy, Puffy or P. Diddy – Sean Combs still holds Howard University and Washington, D.C., close to his heart, which he demonstrated during a recent concert where the entertainment mogul donated $1 million to the school. Combs, 46, presented a $1 million check to Howard President Wayne A.I. […]
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Mendelson Re-Shuffles Council for White’s Entrance
Vincent Orange’s Aug. 15 resignation from the D.C. Council has resulted in several changes – the selection of Robert White to finish his term and a change in the Council’s committee structure. Orange was defeated in the June 14 Democratic Party at-large primary by Robert White, an activist who lives in the Brightwood section of […]
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Howard University Hospital Nets $4 Million Surplus
Howard University Hospital is in the black with a $4 million surplus after years of struggling to operate and be profitable. On Sept. 20 at the Founders Library, Howard University President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick announced that the hospital is going through a significant financial and operating rebound. The hospital is operating with a solid […]
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Role of Grandfamilies Cements Black Togetherness
Ingrid Holloway still remembers fondly arriving in D.C. in the 1960s after days of traveling on the Greyhound Bus from Shelby, Miss., the home of her grandparents. Barely fifteen, Holloway left behind an infant son – the product of a sexual assault – and many of the bad memories associated with poverty, Jim Crow, and […]
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Frazier Looks to Keep Building At Dunbar In D.C.
Henry Frazier was once a great program builder in college football. He laid the championship foundation for two programs that were doormats in their respective HBCU conferences at the Division I and Division II levels. That Midas touch is being put to the test to help restore the success to one of the storied programs […]
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Judge Wilkins’ Book Offers Insight into Black Museum Creation
In the shadows of the innumerable stories soon to bear fruit within the National Museum of African American History and Culture, sits, perhaps, its most endearing story of all – the tale of its own gestation. Judge Robert L. Wilkins’ “Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of […]
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SE Community Party Leaves 2 Dead
An annual Southeast, D.C. neighborhood event filled with dancing, children activities, music and food was disrupted Sept. 17 after gunshots were fired and left two people dead and several others injured. The chaos began around 8:20 p.m. when multiple gunshots occurred on the 2600 block of Birney Place SE and brought the community party, known […]
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D.C. Police Face Staffing Crisis
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) introduced emergency legislation on Sept. 16 that would shift eligibility requirements for police recruits and veterans hoping to minimize a police department staffing crisis. Many of the department’s senior officers were hired in the early 1990s and are becoming eligible for retirement. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) […]