Category: Washington D.C. News

Mayor Adrian Fenty has announced assignments for the 22,000 District-area youth looking to get some work experience under their belts this summer. Participants range in age from 16 to 22, and according to the mayor’s office, approximately 68 percent of this year’s participants in the Summer Youth Employment Program are from Wards 5, 7 and […]

The District of Columbia City Council has paid yet another tribute to slain intern Alonte Sutton. The governing body decided recently to display a photo of the youth among other deceased Council representatives at the John A. Wilson Building. Sutton, 18, had worked last summer as an intern for At-large Councilman Michael Brown. He was […]

City Council Chairman Vincent Gray, a candidate in this year’s mayoral race, poses with members of the American Federation of Government Employees, which has endorsed Gray. See story on Afro.com.

The number of unsolved homicides in the District of Columbia since 1980 continues an upward spiral. And, according to a member of the grassroots organization, Peaceoholics, a lot of it has to do with the lack of civic involvement, coupled with a general distrust of law enforcement. “Some people don’t know the difference between practicing […]

The Washington Juneteenth Jazz & Arts Festival, honoring D.C. native Duke Ellington, will be held on June 17 at the West Minister Presbyterian Church. The festival is in conjunction with the 11th Annual Washington Juneteenth National Holiday Observance. The festival, sponsored by the National Association of Juneteenth Jazz Presenters, is also a part of “June […]

WASHINGTON — Howard University College of Medicine is number three among the 141 American medical schools in producing doctors that meet the nation’s new health care needs, according to a study by George Washington University released Monday. The study in the June 15 edition of the Annals of Medicine is the first ever to score […]

The Washington, D.C. mayoral election between incumbent Adrian Fenty and City Council Chairman Vincent Gray has already been a bumpy ride—and things may have just gotten bumpier. Another disagreement between the pair emerged during the week of June 7 when both were slated to address the 2010 graduating class of Dunbar Senior High School. According […]

The federal attorney who was assigned to oversee last year’s fatal shooting of Trey Joyner has passed the case over to prosecutors in Philadelphia. Ron Machen had been under heat to solve the June 8, 2009 shooting, in which six U.S. Park Police officers were accused of shooting the 24-year-old in the back. The officers […]

Mayor Adrian Fenty recently teamed up with Department of Health Director Dr. Pierre Vigilance to announce the interim appointment of Dr. Nnemdi Kamanu Elias as a senior deputy director for the District’s HIV/AIDS Hepatitis Tuberculosis and STD Administration. Prior to assuming the post, Dr. Elias was the chief medical director for HAHSTA. She will serve […]

Cardoza Senior High School in Northwest Washington served as the backdrop for graduation ceremonies in honor of the first class of registered apprenticeship graduates of the D.C. Apprenticeship Academy. More importantly, the 12 apprentice electricians, who ranged in ages from 22 to 30, were recognized for having completed the Academy’s four-year program which required some […]

In Waldorf, Md., two sisters are trying to create a business model that has seldom been seen in the Washington, D.C. area. Regina Bethea, 45, and Dorthy Cayard, 49, are the principle owners of Laugh Out Loud Stations, a place where the entire family can have fun. The concept for the business was born out […]

Teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools system this week overwhelmingly approved their latest contract, a measure which now poises them to become among the highest paid instructors in the region. The vote to ratify the controversial contract would give DCPS instructors their first salary increases in three years, an 11 percent hike that […]