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It’s always been racist, partisan, and nonsensical.

You can live in Washington, D.C. amid the nation’s cherished monuments to democracy and representative government — the U.S. Capitol, the stately congressional office buildings, the White House — and still be among the most disenfranchised…

Passionate debate from lawmakers representing several states has taken place in the House ahead of a historic Friday vote on legislation to make D.C. the nation’s 51st state.

In the backyard of the nation’s capital, local small businesses are using every ounce of their creativity to stay afloat. Local photographer Violetta Markelou’s project “Inbox Full” captures the inspirations, challenges, and struggles of…

D.C.’s paid family leave program looks set to launch July 1, meeting the city’s target date even as the coronavirus crisis raised questions about how the policy should move forward.

Work is underway on a project to dust off an old Union Station platform and make it a new passenger platform to increase rail capacity.

Shared electric moped company Revel is betting on more demand as more D.C. workers return to their place of work. It will add another 200 scooters to its D.C. fleet, bringing the total number to 600 across all eight wards in the District. …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House is moving toward approval of a bill to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city’s…

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is winning high marks for battling the coronavirus, just as the District stands ready to achieve a win in its longstanding fight — a vote on statehood in the House.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to take a historic vote on D.C. statehood for the first time in a generation on Friday.

D.C. police shot Marqueese two years ago. They still won’t say why.

The time has come for the District to regulate police surveillance technologies. This month, the New York City Council approved the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act. It was a monumental victory for police transparency,…

The House is scheduled to vote Friday afternoon on legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, a historic milestone in the fight for statehood that is expected to pass the majority-Democratic chamber.

When Toyin Alli saw Freshfarm, an organization that operates 30 farmers markets in the Washington region, advertise its black vendors on Instagram, her eyes narrowed and her heartbeat quickened.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The statue needs more nuance that highlights black agency.

The Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington is not a Confederate monument. It famously exhibits a standing Abraham Lincoln seemingly giving freedom to a kneeling black man naked from the waist up, whose chains are being broken. It was and is a…

The District sits on Piscataway ancestral lands; it was of the Nacotchtank Indians of the Piscataway empire. Our people were of the first to be colonized and forced into assimilation. Centuries later, Daniel Snyder finds it okay to…

DC has been trying to make its case to join the union for decades as its residents have long found themselves in a constitutional black hole

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued Thursday that the District of Columbia does not deserve to be a state, asserting that while Wyoming has a smaller population, it has a greater right because it’s a “well-rounded working-class state.”