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Four months ago, Brooke Pinto was a virtually unknown candidate for the D.C. Council who had never voted in the District.

With a global pandemic ongoing and sports facing unprecedented uncertainty, the 2026 World Cup seems like part of a distant future. FIFA has enough concerns about conducting qualifiers for the 2022 tournament, let alone the competition six…

Another D.C. university has announced its commitment to stop investing in companies that deal in fossil fuels.

Responding to community feedback, a popular D.C. deli has apologized for naming several of its menu items after Black athletes and entertainers.

As the Frank D. Reeves Center, on the northwest corner of 14th Street and U Street Northwest, gets redeveloped into a mixed-use hub, it will have an important new tenant: the NAACP’s National Headquarters.

The House committee overseeing U.S. Park Police hears from witnesses, but federal agencies were a no-show for now.

All sorts of live events, from concerts, to conventions, to festivals, have been canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and D.C.-area companies that produce them are feeling the hurt.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People might soon call Northwest D.C. home.

Congress on Monday began to investigate tactics used by federal law enforcement officers to clear protesters near Lafayette Square ahead of President Trump’s photo op in front of the pale yellow facade of St. John’s Episcopal Church.

The NAACP will move its headquarters to Washington, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced on Monday.

When Mary Blackford first started sharing her idea of building a food hall in Ward 7, she says people in her community had their doubts.

More than 18,000 people have signed an online petition urging D.C. Public Schools to rename Woodrow Wilson High School because of the former president’s advocacy of segregationist policies.

The days of going to a neighborhood library on a weekday evening or on a Sunday may well be numbered.

It seemed, at first, to be a routine goodwill gesture from a group of District residents delivering box lunches to D.C. police officers, who accepted the gifts and put their arms around participants for photos.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans a future headquarters move from Baltimore to D.C., with the civil rights group eventually relocating to a redeveloped Reeves Center at the heart of the U Street corridor.…

D.C.’s first streatery pilot along 18th Street in Adams Morgan appeared to be popular over the weekend.

Four are charged with trying to bring the Lafayette Square monument down

There really is a pop-up for everything.

Weeks after protesters were removed forcefully from Lafayette Square, witnesses testified before members of Congress to denounce the “aggressive tactics” used against demonstrators by U.S. Park Police and other federal agents.

Witnesses told members of Congress on Monday that law enforcement officers forcefully cleared out peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House earlier this month with little warning and indiscriminate attacks on some of…