Editor 25036 posts 0 comments

The $152 million project is expected to open to students for the 2021-2022 school year.

A Democratic-backed effort to grant statehood to the District of Columbia faces an uphill battle in Congress, even with record support and powerful allies like Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). …

REPUBLICAN DISREGARD for the civil rights of D.C. residents has long been established. So it was no surprise that at last week’s House hearing on D.C. statehood, GOP lawmakers ticked off their usual reasons that they don’t think the…

What appeared to be the first short-lived suspension of elevator service in the just-reopened Washington Monument happened on Saturday.

A year after a fire destroyed the homes and belongings of residents of a senior citizens apartment complex in Southeast D.C., a lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the Arthur Capper Senior Public Housing’s 150 residents.

The vice president of the D.C. State Board of Education announced he will run for D.C. Council.

On a recent tour of the remnants of the Barry Farm public housing complex in Southeast Washington, historians rattled off reasons the city should landmark the property, including that hundreds of freed slaves settled there after the Civil…

Issues with the recently renovated elevator at the Washington Monument had some visitors spending a lot more time at the top than they expected Saturday afternoon.

She’d lived on this historically black D.C. block for 40 years. Now the city she knew was vanishing, and so was her place in it.

In the summer of 1950, Washingtonians were excited about a new 4,000-seat performance space set to open. Its name: the Sesquicentennial Amphitheater, “Sesqui” for short.

A year after fire destroyed a senior citizens apartment complex in Southeast D.C., 150 residents filed a lawsuit Friday.

Alysha Butler’s AP U.S. History class is starting at the beginning: a discussion about the Thirteen Colonies. It’s a topic Butler acknowledges is not always a fan favorite.

Polly Donaldson, the head of Washington, D.C.’s Department of Housing and Community Development since 2015, worked in the non-profit housing sector for almost three decades before taking on her current role — but her best qualification may…

Combating climate change on an individual level can feel like a drop in the bucket.

The chill is back in the air and the D.C. Council back to work after its summer recess. A friendly reminder: the 13-member council and the mayor set policy for more than 700,000 people (except for the minority of cases when Congress…

The D.C. Council is considering a bill to fully legalize marijuana and regulate the retail marijuana market. The council decriminalized minor marijuana possession in 2014 ; later that year, voters approved an initiative that removed…

Two years ago, I wrote a book detailing how African American leaders in the District and elsewhere helped, sometimes unwittingly, to usher in the mass-incarceration era. Many black judges, mayors and legislators who served during the…

The D.C. Council’s myopic handling of embattled member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) could be dismissed as an exercise in klutziness were the situation not so serious. Lawmakers seem too shortsighted to see the urgent need to resolve the problem…

Mike Dixon left his first visit to his son’s new school deflated. The Dixons had scored a seat at a Chinese-language charter school in the District that families clamor to attend.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in D.C. has unveiled its most recent acquisitions, which include a billionaire, a legendary music group, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a fashion industry giant and more.