2020

In a situation markedly different than what initially transpired between police officers and protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s death, hundreds of thousands of people of various races peacefully converged on portions of the…

Sakira Coleman came down to Black Lives Matter Plaza to organize the crowd and give the movement a burst of energy. “It’s exhausting. This is our thirteenth day protesting out here,” she said. But “it’s just business as usual now. It takes…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 only includes 7.85 million in local funding for the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). This is $15,000 less than what was approved last year for the current budget.

Latavia Huntley brought her 3-year-old son Tariq to the stretch of H Street lining Lafayette Square Wednesday morning and said they spent about two hours walking where protesters marched days before.

As near-constant Black Lives Matter protests have become a fixture near the White House, people experiencing homelessness in the District are finding themselves caught in the crossfire between demonstrators and law enforcement.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was a national hero in the eyes of some of the demonstrators across the country clamoring for police reform last Friday, as she ordered “Black lives matter” painted in the street as a defiant message to the…

As protests continued in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, preparations are underway for an estimated 100,000 people to converge on Washington in late August to push for criminal justice reform.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained attention last week after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words "Black Lives Matter" in bright yellow and renamed a section of the street Black Lives…

Happy Wednesday. The DC government is ramping up its contact tracing capabilities, a key aspect of efforts to progress to the next phase in the city's reopening. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC health officials say the earliest the District…

After announcing a series of changes to 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights in February, the District Department of Transportation will kick off construction on a new set of bus lanes along the bustling corridor this week.

Samanta Troper was on her way to get coffee in Dupont Circle on June 1 when she saw a group of people rallying to protest the killing of Tony McDade, a black transgender man fatally shot by a police officer in Florida in May.

If anyone would like to see At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman try to remove her foot from her mouth, head over to Twitter, where the lawmaker is walking back comments on what some are calling transactional support for Black Lives…

The National Park Service began its removal of the nearly two-miles of fencing surrounding the “White House complex” on Wednesday. The metal barrier has become a symbol of resistance as demonstrators have converted it into a makeshift…

Washington, D.C., has seen about two weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality and for racial equality after the May 25 killing of 46-year-old black man George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. And in the…

The District has seen 12-straight days of demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, drawing tens of thousands of protesters to downtown and the surrounding suburbs.

Metro is on the cusp of finalizing a deal it announced earlier this year with a team of big-name developers to redevelop the agency’s aging downtown D.C. headquarters into a new office building — but there’s one important hurdle left to…

Washington, D.C., is no stranger to protest. Whether it be recordbreakers like the original Women’s March, recurring rallies like March for Life or perennial encampments like the White House Peace Vigil, you’d be hard pressed to find a day…

D.C. is making headway on at least one metric it needs to see in order to start Phase Two reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday.