2019

In the summer of 1950, Washingtonians were excited about a new 4,000-seat performance space set to open. Its name: the Sesquicentennial Amphitheater, “Sesqui” for short.

A year after fire destroyed a senior citizens apartment complex in Southeast D.C., 150 residents filed a lawsuit Friday.

Alysha Butler’s AP U.S. History class is starting at the beginning: a discussion about the Thirteen Colonies. It’s a topic Butler acknowledges is not always a fan favorite.

Polly Donaldson, the head of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development since 2015, worked in the non-profit housing sector for almost three decades before taking on her current role — but her best qualification may…

Combating climate change on an individual level can feel like a drop in the bucket.

The chill is back in the air and the D.C. Council back to work after its summer recess. A friendly reminder: the 13-member council and the mayor set policy for more than 700,000 people (except for the minority of cases when Congress…

The D.C. Council is considering a bill to fully legalize marijuana and regulate the retail marijuana market. The council decriminalized minor marijuana possession in 2014 ; later that year, voters approved an initiative that removed…

Two years ago, I wrote a book detailing how African American leaders in the District and elsewhere helped, sometimes unwittingly, to usher in the mass-incarceration era. Many black judges, mayors and legislators who served during the…

The D.C. Council’s myopic handling of embattled member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) could be dismissed as an exercise in klutziness were the situation not so serious. Lawmakers seem too shortsighted to see the urgent need to resolve the problem…

Mike Dixon left his first visit to his son’s new school deflated. The Dixons had scored a seat at a Chinese-language charter school in the District that families clamor to attend.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in D.C. has unveiled its most recent acquisitions, which include a billionaire, a legendary music group, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a fashion industry giant and more.

There's no need to rush to the Panda House.

In a couple of weeks, DC will join other jurisdictions which have implemented new regulatory systems in response to the short term rental market embodied in the rise of platform Airbnb.

“Southeast is nowhere for you to be trans. There’s no resources, there’s no help for you there,” Bela Muney, a trans woman and LGBTQ advocate, told DCist last December.

The National World War I Memorial slated for D.C.’s Pershing Park has received final approval from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, five years after Congress authorized the memorial and its downtown site.

Officials will hold a meeting about the highly anticipated project next week