Category: Washington D.C. News

Following months of sometimes contentious debate, Metro’s Board of Directors has paved the way for the first of two fare hikes. The first went into effect June 27 and is part of the beleaguered transit system’s effort to cover a $189 million budget deficit. The agency’s new fiscal year begins July 1 and incorporates an […]

Basketball games at Washington, D.C.’s Barry Farms Goodman League are run in daily sequence during the evening hours of the summer. Since the outdoor blacktop, affectionately known as the B.F. Coliseum, sits openly alongside the exhaust-producing Suitland Parkway, it takes a well-conditioned athlete to endure the heat and hustle of back-to-back games. Thankfully, Memphis Grizzlies […]

While HIV testing and awareness are recognized nationally on a single day in June, the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs has extended this day into a full week to further increase HIV testing throughout the VA health care system. Kicking off on June 27, the VA will provide patients living with HIV with the most […]

When his father passed away more than a year ago, Azim Al-Sala’m wanted to find a way to not only honor the man who instilled principles of kindness and charity in him, but also carry on his positive legacy. A native Washingtonian, Al-Sala’m, 33, founded Consider Someone Else, a social networking Web site that aims […]

It has been just a handful of years since the highly acclaimed “Automatic Inmate HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling Program” at the city lockup was launched. Since that time the program has already conducted HIV screenings for more than 40,000 inmates, and jail officials are poised to keep administering the tests as new detainees enter the […]

Unless its current owner – or another patron – quickly steps in and rescues the beleaguered facility, the District will forge ahead with plans to have United Medical Center in Southeast Washington foreclosed. Attorney General Peter Nickles, who recently filed notice against the 17-acre property, said the measure would allow the hospital to be auctioned […]

WASHINGTON- Tons of teddy bears, flowers, pictures, balloons and signs that read, “We All Miss You,” line the front of a small check cashing store on the 2300 block of Benning Road, N.E., where a well-known merchant was slain over the weekend. On June 17, the block was swamped with cars, as the First District […]

It’s been a year since the tragic accident on Metro’s Red Line claimed the lives of nine people and injured several others. But for the surviving families, whose grief was only deepened by this week’s huge memorial service at the Fort Totten station in Northeast Washington, it’s incumbent upon Metro to not only make amends […]

Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson asked the students of Ferebee-Hope Community School Complex to stand in their red uniform shirts and receive accolades from their teachers and parents on June 16 when he visited the school’s 21st Century Community Learning Center Afterschool Program’s commencement ceremony. Dressed in a soft gray suit, Gibson set aside time […]

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.