Opinion

The Aug. 9 Metro article “D.C. hotel rooms may further limit virus’s spread” described the extraordinary job D.C. has done to protect people experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. As the doctor in charge of medical care…

As protesters take to the streets across the country demanding equity and recognition for Black lives, an important symbolic battle is taking place in D.C., where I have spent most of my adult life as an arts advocate. Go-go artists are…

FOLLOWING THE police shooting of Michael Brown six years ago in Ferguson, Mo., D.C. was one of the first big cities to undertake a body-camera pilot program for its police force; by the end of 2016, all D.C. patrol officers were equipped…

A day after more than 100 bullets tore through a crowd and into the bodies of 20 people, Ron Moten stood under a D.C. sky, looked straight into his phone’s camera and described one way that the city was better off when it was considered…

These scenes in the nation’s capital should be triumphant.

A quirk of not having statehood is that D.C. does not house its own convicted people in its own prisons.

On Jan. 1, 1863, a pensive President Abraham Lincoln sat down and signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a moment that represented the crowning achievement of his presidency. The Emancipation Proclamation enabled Blacks to join the Union…

Ellington Rose and her rainbow bathing suit belong in those still blue waters.

As novel coronavirus infection rates surge in most states and the new school year approaches, parents are understandably worried about their children’s health. Yet, even as the coronavirus dominates concerns of parents and school leaders,…

At his office on Benning Road in Northeast Washington, Edwin Chapman treats about 275 opioid addicts a month. They get counseling, a modified physical exam and buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses the craving for potentially lethal…

As novel coronavirus infection rates surge in most states and the new school year approaches, parents are understandably worried about their children’s health. Yet, even as the coronavirus dominates concerns of parents and school leaders,…

A day after Carmen Garner drove across the Washington region to visit five boys at their homes, he is still thinking of the walk to one child’s front door.

Statues are coming down and names are being changed around the country. At Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, the monolithic statue of George Preston Marshall, founder of the Washington professional football team and a segregationist, was…

Since April, we have been sounding the alarm that music venues such as the 9:30 Club and the Anthem cannot survive the novel coronavirus shutdown without federal assistance.

Raise your hand if you have experienced racism at school.

Just five days after health officials announced the first case of Covid-19 in the D.C. area, Martha’s Table announced a major change to its strategy for promoting economic and food security among D.C. residents. We were going to give…

The D.C. government has vowed to intensify efforts to address income inequality and race disparities. It should reconsider residential parking rules, which serve to increase the divide between rich and poor, white and nonwhite.

The call in the July 18 editorial “The D.C. Council needs to get real” for the D.C. Council to “wake up to reality” was hardhearted and wrongheaded.

The July 19 Metro article “Schools scaling back plans for in-person learning” touched on some reasons people want to return to in-person schooling despite the dangers: child care, food security and availability of technology. This isn’t a…

Because our lanky old hound had to pee at 4 a.m., my son gets to learn to drive this summer.