2021

Beverly Lindsay-Johnson was 12 years old and living in the Bronx when she first heard a song called “I Do Love You” by a singer from D.C. named Billy Stewart . It was 1965 and her radio was always tuned to an R&B station.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said Sunday that she is making plans to protect public safety when President Trump’s supporters descend on the District on Wednesday to protest the result of the presidential election — including asking city…

The push for D.C. statehood has more support in Congress than ever before.

Several D.C.-region officials are asking people to avoid going to downtown D.C. to counterprotest demonstrations held in support of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6.

“What I want to see before I die,” Frederick Douglass wrote, “is a monument representing the negro, not couchant on his knees like a four-footed animal, but erect on his feet like a man.”

Norene Robinson was tired of eating onions. But the grocery store was far away, and she has never loved to cook. And as a 75-year-old fighting to survive a pandemic, she didn’t want to venture out for a more nutritious meal and risk…

A replica of a controversial statue of Abraham Lincoln standing over a newly emancipated Black man has been removed from a public park in Boston.

News Release — Executive Office of the Mayor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 3, 2021 CONTACT:  LaToya Foster (EOM) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser released the following statement after Congresswoman Eleanor…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser swore in Robert J. Contee III as the new police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department on Saturday.

Entertainment venues struggling around the country will receive $15 billion as part of the pandemic relief package passed by Congress in December.

Three new D.C. Council members — all women — were sworn into office Saturday morning, marking a leftward shift in the city’s leadership and the first majority-female council in more than 20 years.

Online classes in the District of Columbia in spring had been a disaster. Thousands of students didn’t have computers or reliable WiFi. Many were falling behind. So as spring gave way to summer, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) was determined to…

The D.C. Council welcomed its newest members on Jan. 2, and — for the first time in two decades — women hold a majority of the seats.

The $5,500 arrived in the middle of August with no strings attached. For Zabria Proctor, it was a godsend. The rent was due. The car loan and insurance needed paying. Bills were piling up. The fridge was often close to bare.

On his first day on the job as a firefighter in Southeast Washington, John A. Donnelly Sr. responded to calls for a baby being born, a shooting, a fire and a person suffering a heart attack.

Building confidence at the grass-roots level and getting “buy-in” from the community before trying something difficult seem like two of those fundamentals that politicians are supposed to have absorbed in Politics 101. When it comes to the…