Opinion

When Louis Sawyer Jr.’s family visited him, they took a 14-hour road trip on an overnight bus to get to the federal penitentiary near Jonesville, Va. And that was one of the easier trips during his 25 years in the federal prison system.

It’s been more than a year since D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) declared a public health crisis and closed school buildings to students. The past year has devastated our community in Anacostia. Still, at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public…

The tying shot at the buzzer in last week’s Virginia Tech-Florida NCAA basketball tournament game brought customers at Master’s Touch barber shop on Georgia Avenue to their feet. I was among them. But I felt the need to inform the…

Monday was a big day for policymakers trying to prevent D.C. from becoming a state. After living in D.C. for a decade, I thought getting representation in Congress was a good idea. But following the well-reasoned arguments from…

The case for statehood for the District of Columbia got a boost, ironically, from the disgraced former president.

Monica Roaché does not want to be yanked back into Maryland. No thank you, no way.

Our region’s state and local governments are getting a windfall totaling more than $15 billion in direct aid from the newly passed federal coronavirus relief plan, which will go a long way to help them repair damage from the…

The nation’s capital will shrink dramatically if H.R. 51 — otherwise known as the Washington D.C. Admission Act, and the subject of a congressional hearing Monday — is enacted and fully implemented. The nation’s capital will be reduced to…

The Washington, D.C., Admissions Act, HR-51 (SB-51 in the Senate), comes up for a hearing on March 22 in the House Oversight Committee. Introduced by nonvoting D.C. delegate-at-large, Eleanor Holmes Norton, HR-51 has 227 co-sponsors in the…

Make my generation the last to be denied equal representation in Congress. Make sure my future children won’t grow up in the shadows of democracy.

The pandemic has produced many grim milestones. March 13 was another: the one-year anniversary of the shuttering of D.C. Public Schools.

It seemed fitting that just before I called Rodney Stotts, the most unlikely of falconers, I’d looked out a window of my house and seen a group of crows harrying a bigger bird in the trees across the street.

In addition to the more than 700,000 residents that call D.C. home, this unique city is visited annually by millions of people from around the world as the epicenter of freedom and democracy. The physical contours of the city, its…

OVER THE past few days, that horrendous fencing erected around the Capitol and its grounds has been modified to allow for more traffic. On Monday, officials announced that there will be even more changes, including removal of the looped…

“Well, it’s like the Kremlin,” he said, taking measure of the tall fence and razor wire that will be in all his weekend-in-Washington, Capitol selfies. “You can’t get too close to that either.”

In 2013, just over a month after George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin, I walked into my first day at Georgetown Law. I was the only Black student in my section of more than 70 students.

If there is one thing I have learned from my 37 years in the U.S. Army, and 13 years since in environmental and civil rights causes, it is that fences may work to keep livestock in your field, but they don’t work — and they send the wrong…

As longtime African American residents of D.C., we find recent remarks from D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) on the D.C. Comprehensive Plan so deeply misguided as to be offensive.

The Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River is a new symbol of American possibility and infrastructure renewal.

We don’t typically celebrate CVS openings. The ubiquitous pharmacy-slash-grocer is barely worth a mention to be honest — there are roughly 270 of them across Greater Washington, after all.