Opinion

IN ANNOUNCING longtime police officer Robert J. Contee III as her choice to be the city’s next police chief, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she did not consider anyone else for the job. It is easy to understand why. Her nominee’s…

A year that has taken so many we love from us in suffering, sickness and death will soon be coming to an end. We are grateful for the skill and determination of those who have worked so diligently to discover effective treatments and to…

In my role as founder of the Catalogue for Philanthropy, I have been moved and inspired by what I have heard and seen during this time of crisis from nonprofits across the D.C. region. There are many great and good things being done that…

In less than an hour, James Simmons will have to check into a homeless shelter, where a bunk bed waits for him. But at this moment, as he walks along Rhode Island Avenue in Northeast Washington, his focus is not on that place.

Last weekend, downtown D.C. was plunged into chaos when pro-Trump groups affiliated with the Proud Boys, an organization designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, descended upon D.C. to continue to claim election fraud…

On the bright, sunny afternoon of Nov. 29, I sat at my computer in Southeast D.C., putting in lessons for my students when I heard the chilling noise of gunfire: Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang. Seven, maybe eight shots rang out…

The 2019 Point in Time (PIT) Count in D.C. revealed a welcome drop in the number of homeless families — a nearly 45 percent decline since its 2016 count. Unfortunately, this count grossly underreports the numbers of women and children…

A 9-YEAR-OLD girl was shot Monday afternoon in Southeast D.C. Police believe the girl, who fortunately did not suffer life-threatening injuries, was the victim of a stray bullet. Four days earlier in Northwest, a 12-year-old boy was shot…

Do you hear what I hear? I hear the imperial American myth in the throes of its own death rattle. And I hear a people clamoring for a story by which to order their lives.

D.C. Public Schools is deliberating new names for Woodrow Wilson High School. The criteria set forth by DCPS state that any individual under consideration must have made a significant contribution to society. The new name also should…

This weekend, we saw that fire of hatred turning against churches in D.C., including one of the oldest African American churches in the nation.

The Proud Boys are as stupid as they look, decked out in their ridiculous yellow-and-black garb and wannabe military gear, if they thought marauding D.C. streets would leave this community hiding behind locked doors. They only managed to…

BLACK CHURCHES have historically been sources of strength, support and hope for African Americans — and that, as a result, has made them targets for racists and other hateful people. U.S. history is littered with destructive — and, too…

Blame me for overreacting and focusing this column time and again on an issue that, based upon the perfunctory attention it gets from city leaders and the civic community, is treated as something minor: violence, particularly among our…

It would be in the best interests of D.C. residents and businesses for the D.C. Council to approve the amended Comprehensive Plan — and soon.

For the past nine months, D.C. Public Schools and the Washington Teachers’ Union have been locked in an unseemly war over how to reopen our school buildings. This difficult time could have been a rare chance to unify disparate voices and…

The hotel is a hotel again. City life moved on.

It is unfortunate that the requirement for having a public school named after you in D.C. is that you be dead. Students should have the opportunity to know who the people are whose names hang on the buildings they typically spend years in.…

The myth that Woodrow Wilson High School owed its reputation for academic excellence to its namesake, the president who brought Jim Crow to Washington, has been busted. The school has always owed that reputation to its educators.

“ABRASIONS AND contusions to the head, face and torso; contusions to the heart and thymus gland; acute abdomen injuries consisting of hemorrhaging of the soft tissue of the abdomen; liver laceration; right kidney laceration; multiple…