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"They're portraying him as a man, but he was a kid. He was into tennis shoes and video games."

St. John's Church is having local artists paint on the plywood panels installed during the George Floyd protests

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said Friday that the city had never intended to propose removing or replacing federal monuments in the District, and accused critics of deliberately misinterpreting a…

Neiman Marcus in the Mazza Gallerie in Northwest D.C. will close within the next two months.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has named her pick for D.C.’s new fire chief.

The top federal prosecutor for D.C. has walked back on his earlier claims that D.C. police had arrested protesters without sufficient evidence during this summer’s demonstrations — the latest in a…

Several events are planned on Saturday to remember Deon Kay, the Black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer on Sept. 2. There will also be protests and marches against police…

A Medium post attributed to Jessica A. Krug, a professor at George Washington University, said she has been pretending to be Black for much of her adult life. The post went viral on Thursday, gaining…

San Francisco-based Neapolitan-style pizzeria Mozzeria, one of few deaf-owned businesses in the U.S., is opening a location on H Street in Northeast D.C. Sept. 4, not far from Gallaudet University.

Shattering the otherwise scorching quiet of summer in D.C., dozens and sometimes hundreds of illegal off-road vehicles have taken to swarming the capital city’s residential neighborhoods each weekend…

Alice Carter worked and got worked over by D.C.’s streets.

D.C. Council Member Trayon White held a virtual community safety meeting Thursday night to talk about hard truths and what is being done to mitigate violence in communities east of the Anacostia…

A D.C. government committee caused quite a stir this week when it released a report calling for the city to reassess the many historical figures whose names grace Washington’s public properties.

When Amy Bormet was launching the Washington Women in Jazz Festival in 2011, she approached venues all over the District, hoping to book five nights in March.

Why didn’t I just raise my fist?

The District’s fire chief, Gregory Dean, who was hired five years ago to lead a department marred by a series of high-profile failures, has decided to retire, D.C. Fire spokesman Doug Buchanan…

D.C.’s Fire and EMS Chief Gregory Dean is retiring.

LESS THAN 24 hours after a young Black man was fatally shot by a D.C. police officer in Southeast Washington, officials on Thursday made public the body-camera footage of the deadly encounter.

A D.C. police officer who fatally shot a young man Wednesday afternoon in Southeast Washington fired once after seeing the 18-year-old turn while holding a gun with his right hand, according to…

The top federal prosecutor in D.C. on Thursday sought to de-escalate a burgeoning feud with city officials over arrests of anti-racism demonstrators, retreating from his suggestion days earlier that…