August 2020

Actor Chadwick Boseman’s shocking death at age 43 hit close to home for many Washingtonians, especially at his alma mater, Howard University.

The first months were uncomfortably quiet. Justin Ralston, principal at Roosevelt High School, was the only school employee in the high-ceilinged, 331,000-square-foot building in Northwest Washington.

Roger Mitchell Jr.'s job hasn’t gotten any easier since he stepped in as D.C.'s chief medical examiner in 2014 — and this month it expanded significantly.

Some protesters who stayed in the District after the March on Washington ended Friday afternoon continued to spread their message, and elements of mayhem, around the city by temporarily shutting down major roads and tussling with police,…

Organizers at the 2020 March on Washington wanted to make one thing clear: The dream Martin Luther King Jr. shared at the 1963 march has not yet become a reality.

TGIF! Washingtonians showed up outside the White House last night, cranking go-go music in a fervent protest of President Donald Trump and police brutality.

Just past dawn Friday, more than a half-century after Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Lincoln Memorial’s marble steps and offered his vision for a fair and righteous America, thousands of protesters descended on the nation’s capital at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping a week of protests and outrage over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, civil rights advocates on Friday denounced police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963…

New restaurant development has dropped off, but we won't see the impact for another year.

The District of Columbia never planned to host the RNC, but the coronavirus pandemic brought the Republican Party’s quadrennial convention here anyway. As President Trump planned to accept his party’s nomination in the Rose Garden Thursday…

A Shaw rowhome just listed for sale may have set the new high mark for asking price in the historic Northwest D.C. neighborhood.

On the eve of the March on Washington 2020, Bridzette Lane shared her memories from the day her 18-year-old son Ralphael Briscoe was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer in 2011.

Thousands of people gathered in D.C. Friday as part of a massive movement to protest police brutality.

The Mazza Gallerie sold for $38 million to the highest bidder in a foreclosure auction Friday after its owner, an affiliate of New York's Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp., defaulted on $67.1 million in loans it took out to acquire the…

More than a month after the $600 per week federal unemployment benefits expired, Congress has yet to negotiate an extension of the program, and pressure is now mounting on D.C. to apply for the temporary relief measure being offered by the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party” in an attempt to drown out President Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

My mother, Marie-Marcelle Buteau Racine, emigrated to the United States in 1963 from Haiti in hopes of creating a better life for our family. She arrived to find a nation struggling to break free of injustice. That year, she joined…