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"We went indoors, people really liked it, it was an incredible atmosphere. But I could tell people wished we were outside."

Georgetown University students voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of creating a new student fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold nearly 200 years ago to benefit the school.

D.C. will be bustling with fun events this Saturday, and those planning to attend or maneuver past the cherry blossom parade or the Emancipation Day celebration should plan on extensive road closures throughout the downtown area.

A proposal from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that could lead to the more frequent moving of speed, red light and other photo enforcement cameras to different streets drew some skepticism at a hearing on Thursday.

The DC Preservation League has applied to seek historic landmark designation for the American Theater, a single-story building in Bloomingdale.

The blood-thirst of special-interest partisans attempting to force an ouster of D.C. Council member Jack Evans belies their transparent political intent. It reveals both lingering anger by far-left activists still stinging from the defeat…

It’s nearly Emancipation Day again in the District—on April 16, the city will celebrate 157 years since it freed 3,100 enslaved people from bondage. The anniversary became an official public holiday in 2005, and since then, it’s been…

TGIF! Tomorrow DC will hold its annual Emancipation Day Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue, days before April 16, when in 1862 slaves were freed in DC.

District residents are heavily debating the merits of a new halfway house in the city instead of staying with the present facility, and many returning-citizens activists want change.

It has long been an example of a thriving enterprise when a business decides to expand and Tyrone White, a successful carryout owner in Ward 8, will be doing so soon.

Georgetown students voted Thursday to create a fund to help descendants of slaves who were sold in the 19th century to pay off the university’s debts.

As many as 10,000 volunteers are expected to hit the outdoors on Saturday, and they’ll have trash bags in hand. The annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup has been a spring tradition in the D.C. area since 1989.

A D.C. activist and entrepreneur behind the #DontMuteDC campaign held a town hall meeting to discuss other issues in the District — gentrification, rising property taxes and the loss of black churches and black-owned business, to name a…

It’s been 10 weeks since the birth of her third child, and Mercedez Milling-Robinson boasts an undeniable glow. Her freckled face, bright smile and bountiful afro show no hints of sadness or fear. On this go-round, Milling-Robinson’s…

It’s easy to hear the word “emancipation” and immediately think of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed American slaves on Jan. 1, 1863. But in D.C., emancipation came earlier, and it’s still celebrated to…

D.C. police are looking for Airbnb renters who allegedly stole items and broke furniture while staying at an upscale Northwest Washington home last month, authorities said.

Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.