Opinion

Friday’s expected successful House vote on D.C. statehood will be a historic milestone. But it is just one step in a long journey toward the day when a D.C. mayor can issue a proclamation for the first elections to Congress of two U.S.…

The president’s crackdown in the capital exposes its vulnerability to authoritarianism.

Despite pushback from local lawmakers and D.C.’s current coronavirus restrictions, Trump plans to host his Fourth of July celebration at the White House.

Here is the question posed to Bradley Beal: Have you ever been racially profiled?

“BUT HOW, in these times, do you raise kids in the nation’s capital, ask them to look at the pain and the strife racial injustice has caused in their hometown and their home country, walk them through steps they can take to make things…

“God don’t like ugly,” my grandma, Ma Pearl, a washwoman with a third-grade education who raised me, would often say. She’d ask me to read the Bible to her, and I wouldn’t understand the passage. “Ma, do you know what does this mean?” I…

THERE WAS a time not long ago when the U.S. Park Police, who patrol national monuments and other federal facilities in Washington, New York and San Francisco, were known for their disciplined and judicious handling of protests. That time…

Being in the streets of Washington reminded me of the occupation I endured as a Palestinian.

As George Floyd lay dying on the ground outside of a grocery store in Minneapolis, begging police officer Derek Chauvin for his life, the 17-year-old employee who was working that day desperately called his boss for help. “They’re killing…

Hospitality has never been easy. As owners of independent restaurants and bars, we’ve always been cautious but optimistic. We risked a lot to bring communities together around a hot meal or a well-made drink. To achieve our dream, we…

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) is criticized because she supports both Black Lives Matter and the D.C. police? We all should be doing that. Sounds like solid mayoral leadership.

The moment I decided to create Black Lives Matter Plaza was when I came face to face with a line of federal police blocking a street in my legal jurisdiction. I was downtown with members of my Interfaith Council to pray for wisdom and…

THE D.C. Council last week adopted sweeping emergency legislation aimed at reforming police practices — and came in for some swift criticism. Officials of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s administration and the police union said the council rushed…

Booms and bangs were everywhere. The air was acrid with pepper spray, marijuana and sage — the peace goddesses were trying to purify the protesters by burning sage.

One of my earliest memories is of walking along a burned-out 14th Street in my hometown Washington, D.C., in 1968, holding one parent’s hand as the other pushed my brother in a stroller; I was 4 years old. They took us to witness the…

“ICONIC PLACE for civil discourse.” That is the National Park Service description of the grounds around the White House, and until recently it was apt. Generations of Americans have gone there to speak out on issues of their day. Sadly,…

It is a clapback so mighty, it can be seen by satellites.

AMID PROTESTS and coronavirus lockdowns, it is urgent that the nation not lose focus on another urgent priority: ensuring that everyone can vote safely in the fall.

Kiesha Davis had no idea that the boy who sat near her in sixth grade couldn’t read.