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The DC Preservation League has applied to seek historic landmark designation for the American Theater, a single-story building in Bloomingdale.

The blood-thirst of special-interest partisans attempting to force an ouster of D.C. Council member Jack Evans belies their transparent political intent. It reveals both lingering anger by far-left activists still stinging from the defeat…

It’s nearly Emancipation Day again in the District—on April 16, the city will celebrate 157 years since it freed 3,100 enslaved people from bondage. The anniversary became an official public holiday in 2005, and since then, it’s been…

District residents are heavily debating the merits of a new halfway house in the city instead of staying with the present facility, and many returning-citizens activists want change.

It has long been an example of a thriving enterprise when a business decides to expand and Tyrone White, a successful carryout owner in Ward 8, will be doing so soon.

Georgetown students voted Thursday to create a fund to help descendants of slaves who were sold in the 19th century to pay off the university’s debts.

As many as 10,000 volunteers are expected to hit the outdoors on Saturday, and they’ll have trash bags in hand. The annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup has been a spring tradition in the D.C. area since 1989.

A D.C. activist and entrepreneur behind the #DontMuteDC campaign held a town hall meeting to discuss other issues in the District — gentrification, rising property taxes and the loss of black churches and black-owned business, to name a…

It’s been 10 weeks since the birth of her third child, and Mercedez Milling-Robinson boasts an undeniable glow. Her freckled face, bright smile and bountiful afro show no hints of sadness or fear. On this go-round, Milling-Robinson’s…

It’s easy to hear the word “emancipation” and immediately think of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed American slaves on Jan. 1, 1863. But in D.C., emancipation came earlier, and it’s still celebrated to…

D.C. police are looking for Airbnb renters who allegedly stole items and broke furniture while staying at an upscale Northwest Washington home last month, authorities said.

Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.

What a battle about loud music on a D.C. corner tells us about gentrification, race, and the life of a city.

For nearly a quarter-century, the MetroPCS store on the corner of Florida Avenue and 7th Street in Northwest kept residents and passersby alike jamming to the sounds of go-go, over time solidifying its status as a staple of authentic,…

Georgetown University student activists are pushing to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves, one that would use a student fee to send a message that historical wrongs will not be forgotten — and to prod administrators to…

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An initiative to improve the health outcomes of Ward 7 and 8 residents seeks funds from the D.C. government to expand its work.

A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that a D.C. police officer and a U.S. Marshal groped a transgender man, fondled his genitals to “determine his anatomical gender,” and held him in lockup…

Georgetown University students are voting today on a proposed student fee that would benefit the descendants of slaves sold in 1838 to benefit the university.

As a third-grade teacher for D.C. Public Schools, Gary Hamilton wanted to be part of the community beyond his classroom.