2021

When the National Portrait Gallery reopens May 14, visitors will have the first opportunity to see a President Donald Trump portrait in the popular America’s Presidents exhibition.

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony was starting to get a little speech-heavy Sunday when Questlove announced he and comedian Lil Rel Howery were going to play a trivia game with the evening’s nominees. “Quest is going to play a song from a…

The premise for an interlude at the Oscars was simple: Questlove played a song and a chosen celebrity had to guess if the tune was ever nominated for or won an Oscar.

Close to a dozen different artists displayed their work in shops throughout the neighborhood

I grew up on some of the meanest streets of D.C., the child of a man who rotated through prison and abandoned me and my mother. The few visits I had with him taught me the wrong kind of lessons. When my mother sent me to him for a…

Part of D.C.’s Attorney General Karl Racine yearlong initiative called The People v. Hate: Standing Up for Humanity, a recent chat discussed community awareness of hate and extremism.

On March 12, 1927, a crowd of several hundred spectators gathered outside a new 10-story building at 1320 New York Ave. NW. They were there to watch an automobile race — not around the building, but up it. This was possible because the…

Jessica Amaya Torres knew she needed to write an essay for her high school English class, but she was finding it hard to concentrate on homework.

The next phase of a major Metro escalator replacement program begins Monday in downtown Washington as construction crews begin replacing the moving staircases at the Gallery Place station after more than four decades of use.

Residents of Northeast Washington’s Carver-Langston neighborhood say they are weeks into a U.S. Postal Service delivery slowdown.

DC doesn't have plans to ease what is effectively a kind of solitary confinement for 23 hours of the day for the approximately 1,500 inmates at the DC Jail.

Two men were killed in separate attacks in Southeast Washington on Thursday night as homicides in the District continue to rise for the fourth consecutive year.

Lawmakers call for ‘exit strategy’ to what experts call extended solitary confinement

Supporters of a bill to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state, which the House passed this week, often cite “taxation without representation” as a rallying cry.

The head of the Washington Teachers’ Union said families who want in-person learning in the fall should receive it, issuing the labor organization’s strongest endorsement of in-person learning since the coronavirus pandemic closed campuses…

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District Department of Transportation on Friday announced a new proposed route for the Ward 7 D.C. Circulator bus.

D.C. educators and school leaders are discussing how they plan to get more students to return to in-person learning, and they said it starts with building trust.

In 2020, the pandemic hastened the decline of Friendship Heights, a largely commercial neighborhood straddling the NW DC/Maryland border. On Friday, an Urban Land Institute (ULI) panel presented their thoughts as to how Friendship Heights…