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As near-constant Black Lives Matter protests have become a fixture near the White House, people experiencing homelessness in the District are finding themselves caught in the crossfire between demonstrators and law enforcement.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser was a national hero in the eyes of some of the demonstrators across the country clamoring for police reform last Friday, as she ordered “Black lives matter” painted in the street as a defiant message to the…

As protests continued in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, preparations are underway for an estimated 100,000 people to converge on Washington in late August to push for criminal justice reform.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser gained attention last week after she had a section of 16th Street near the White House painted with the words "Black Lives Matter" in bright yellow and renamed a section of the street Black Lives…

After announcing a series of changes to 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights in February, the District Department of Transportation will kick off construction on a new set of bus lanes along the bustling corridor this week.

Samanta Troper was on her way to get coffee in Dupont Circle on June 1 when she saw a group of people rallying to protest the killing of Tony McDade, a black transgender man fatally shot by a police officer in Florida in May.

If anyone would like to see At-Large Councilmember Elissa Silverman try to remove her foot from her mouth, head over to Twitter, where the lawmaker is walking back comments on what some are calling transactional support for Black Lives…

The National Park Service began its removal of the nearly two-miles of fencing surrounding the “White House complex” on Wednesday. The metal barrier has become a symbol of resistance as demonstrators have converted it into a makeshift…

Washington, D.C., has seen about two weeks of mass demonstrations against police brutality and for racial equality after the May 25 killing of 46-year-old black man George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis. And in the…

The District has seen 12-straight days of demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, drawing tens of thousands of protesters to downtown and the surrounding suburbs.

Metro is on the cusp of finalizing a deal it announced earlier this year with a team of big-name developers to redevelop the agency’s aging downtown D.C. headquarters into a new office building — but there’s one important hurdle left to…

Washington, D.C., is no stranger to protest. Whether it be recordbreakers like the original Women’s March, recurring rallies like March for Life or perennial encampments like the White House Peace Vigil, you’d be hard pressed to find a day…

D.C. is making headway on at least one metric it needs to see in order to start Phase Two reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Wednesday.

"I wish everyone would turn Postmates off. Then they'd have to do the right thing."

The Library of Congress announced on Wednesday that it’s canceling all of its public events until Sept. 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Maya Sapiurka returned to her downtown D.C. office for the first time in three months in mid-May. A scientific policy and training associate at a local nonprofit, she had to pick up some items she’d left when the company moved operations…

Here is what three people involved in the fight for statehood say D.C. residents can do.

On their fifth day of demonstrations, the thousands gathered to protest George Floyd’s killing literally hit a wall. A tall metal fence had gone up almost overnight to keep them out of Lafayette Square, and away from President Trump.

Bettye Howe Saunders is a descendant of enslaved people who lived and worked on land that's now part of Sidwell Friends.

Last week, DC's Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) unanimously voted in support of an alternate design concept to retrofit a Mount Pleasant laundromat into a residential project.