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The time has come for the District to regulate police surveillance technologies. This month, the New York City Council approved the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act. It was a…

The House is scheduled to vote Friday afternoon on legislation that would make the District of Columbia the nation’s 51st state, a historic milestone in the fight for statehood that is expected to…

When Toyin Alli saw Freshfarm, an organization that operates 30 farmers markets in the Washington region, advertise its black vendors on Instagram, her eyes narrowed and her heartbeat quickened.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to the nation’s capital to stay home this Independence Day during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The statue needs more nuance that highlights black agency.

The Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington is not a Confederate monument. It famously exhibits a standing Abraham Lincoln seemingly giving freedom to a kneeling black man naked from the waist up, whose…

The District sits on Piscataway ancestral lands; it was of the Nacotchtank Indians of the Piscataway empire. Our people were of the first to be colonized and forced into assimilation. Centuries…

DC has been trying to make its case to join the union for decades as its residents have long found themselves in a constitutional black hole

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) argued Thursday that the District of Columbia does not deserve to be a state, asserting that while Wyoming has a smaller population, it has a greater right because it’s a…

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s proposed budget will reduce funding for affordable housing in fiscal year 2021 and disproportionately hurt the District’s Black residents, housing experts say.

On the evening of June 16, more than 100 people gathered in Freedom Plaza, across the street from the Wilson Building and down the block from the White House, to watch the documentary “13th” and…

Police in the nation’s capital were bracing Thursday night for protesters who planned to denounce and urge the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln, paid for by people who had been enslaved, that…

Students will return to Howard University in August for a mix of in-person and online classes, the school announced Thursday, but campus life will be far from normal.

After weeks of demonstrations, hundreds of citizens offering public testimony and calls to “defund the police,” a D.C. committee that oversees the police department budget has proposed cutting its…

D.C. lawmakers on Thursday advanced measures to cut $15 million from the police department budget, a change that defund-the-police activists dismissed as insufficient and the police chief warned…

A host of local and federal leaders gathered on Thursday to praise the D.C. statehood bill, which is expected to pass the House on Friday for the first time ever, and to throw elbows at the bill’s…

A statue of President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave in D.C. is under renewed scrutiny, with protesters announcing their intention to tear down the monument Thursday.

Leaders of the yellow church that has been at the center of the District’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations say they are concerned about how police cleared protesters from the area earlier this week…

The D.C. Council’s judiciary committee unanimously voted Thursday to approve a $15 million reduction to the Metropolitan Police Department’s proposed budget for next year and to require the current…

The Smithsonian Institution has paid nearly $253.7 million for the majority of a two-building Southwest D.C. office campus to serve as its consolidated headquarters after getting the green light from…