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After her son’s friend was shot dead in a robbery attempt, Lisa McNair wanted to send the teen to high school in South Carolina, where his paternal grandmother lives.

Longtime Adams Morgan club Heaven and Hell is so named for its dual-bar concept: Climb the stairs for an angelic dance club, or descend below for a more infernal vibe. But now, the latter part of its…

On “Trenchtown Rock,” Bob Marley sang, “One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.” Saturday’s first-ever Down in the Reeds festival takes the message behind those lyrics one step…

Having apparently solved all the urgent problems besetting D.C. – crime, poverty, traffic, homelessness, public schools that don’t educate, etc. – the D.C. Council - whose city is actually named for…

On Monday in the nation's capital, there is no Columbus Day. The D.C. Council voted to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day in a temporary move that it hopes to make permanent. Several other…

You want it to come off the page or come off the surface as having a life," Akili Ron Anderson says. "That’s what I tried to do."

Transformer is hosting its 16th annual silent auction and benefit on October 26.

Once a week, in the basement auditorium of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., a group of men gather to discuss the various struggles and triumphs of life in a…

Drivers should expect parking restrictions and some street closures west of the White House.

Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the District after the city council approved emergency legislation last week to rename Columbus Day.

The District will increase education funding by at least $20 million for the current academic year after the traditional public school system struggled to balance its budget for the previous fiscal…

WHISTLEBLOWERS, AS the country has become all too keenly aware, help serve the public interest when they stick their necks out to report wrongdoing in government. That, though, assumes that their…

It seems an unlikely subject for a movie: the battle over school vouchers in the nation’s capital.

As the number of victims climbed during a week of murders that left eight people dead in the District, the city’s police chief expressed frustration that more isn’t being done to deal with repeat gun…

Young people in the District such as Marcus Goodwin are no longer asking their elders for permission to participate in the political life of the city — they are doing it and making waves in the…

The hot, dry weather, which has sparked a moderate drought in the D.C. area, is taking a toll on the grass and trees in the nation’s front yard — the National Mall.

The Nationals’ playoff run is something fans have been dreaming about for well over a decade; and now that it’s here, D.C. has plans to make fans’ travel to and from the games a little bit smoother. …

Almost exactly six hours after I first sent out the social media query, the Twitterati sleuths provided an answer: My mystery woman had a name (Vasilisa Smith) and yes, the missing white AirPod…

Rapper and occasional provocateur Kanye West made an impromptu visit Saturday morning to Howard University’s homecoming, turning the campus yard into a church service busy with hymns, hip-hop and an…

For the past four years, as Melvin Nesbitt Jr. was coming up as a professional artist, he managed to find space in which to work. But he had a harder time finding a supportive network of fellow…