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Federal judge says inmates are likely to prove "deliberate indifference" by DC Department of Corrections in how it handled the spread of coronavirus behind bars.

Two weeks after winning the Ward 2 primary election, political newcomer Brooke Pinto has declared victory again—this time in the special election to fill the Ward 2 seat.

How to spend the holiday, either marching in the street or online from home.

After weeks of protests around the D.C. region, and across the U.S., in the wake of George Floyd’s police-custody death, the Million Moe March on Friday hopes to move forward toward ending systemic…

“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.…

A new study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition finds that D.C. ranked 13th on the list of “most intensely gentrified” cities across the country from 2013 to 2017, trailing behind San…

D.C. police Thursday announced possible street closures and restrictions for downtown Washington ahead of expected demonstrations Friday and into the weekend.

Three D.C. pastry chefs have launched an effort that’s become an international bake sale raising money for community nonprofits working against racism.

As D.C. heads into its fourth straight weekend of protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, demonstrators are planning to hit the streets again on Saturday and Sunday.

As the death of George Floyd and subsequent protests have prompted conversations about race across America, D.C. teachers have stepped forward to inform the D.C. State Board of Education that they…

For some, it has made events and workshops more accessible.

So far, 12 artists have painted 14 plywood murals around the District.

What does "defund the police" mean? Black D.C. activists share the policy changes and ideas behind the words that have dominated national conversation.

Since 2005, the D.C. Jazz Festival has become an annual summer tradition.

Democrat Brooke Pinto won Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat that Jack Evans vacated on the D.C. Council and should begin representing Ward 2 on the council by the end of the month.

How the head of Washington Performing Arts has gone from "gut-wrenching despair" to hope and resilience.

Every voter in D.C. will get their ballot for the general election in the mail. It’s one of the changes the Board of Elections plans to make after “lessons learned” in what Mayor Muriel Bowser called…

Maiesha Rashad, a pivotal figure in D.C.’s music scene, died Monday. Rashad had been diagnosed with stomach cancer in February.

Brooke Pinto has been declared the winner in the special election for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat formerly held by Jack Evans — a position she will occupy at least until the end of the year.

Every year on June 19th, Louis Hicks and his family would gather together at the family farm in Maynard, Tex., for a daylong picnic and party. The kids would run wild as the adults barbecued and…