2019

When DC Public Schools honored teachers and administrators at the Standing Ovation ceremony earlier this month, they capped off a challenging year for the school system. Last year DCPS was at the center of a scandal involving inflated…

You probably know that Duke Ellington was a Washington native. But would the iconic jazzman be the best cover subject for a book about local jazz? The new book Washington, DC, Jazz, by Regennia N. Williams and the Rev. Sandra…

In just a month, Mayor Muriel Bowser faces the first test of the pledge to use her second term to be bold in tackling DC’s biggest challenges, like affordable housing and homelessness. That test will come on March 20 when she releases the…

I asked myself that question when DC Council Chairman Pro Tempore Kenyan McDuffie and eight of his colleagues introduced the Center for Firearm Violence Prevention Research Establishment Act of 2019. Were they suffering group confusion or…