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Absent adequate translated materials, community members pool resources to support immigrants. One ANC filed complaints with the DC Office of Humans Rights.

From the 1950s through the late 1990s, D.C. was known as Chocolate City, because it was the first majority-Black major city in the United States. The city was home to prominent Black people who owned their own businesses. Influential Black…

The redevelopment of the D.C. Housing Authority’s headquarters in NoMa should finally move ahead later this year, with some — but certainly not all — of the enhanced affordability measures championed by the project’s critics.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A four-story, 50-ton marble tablet engraved with the text of the First Amendment, previously displayed on the facade of the now-shuttered Newseum in Washington, will find a new home in Philadelphia across from…

A 50-ton marble tablet of the First Amendment is relocating from the facade of the shuttered Newseum in D.C. to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Significant racial disparities persist in the vaccine rollout across the D.C. region, despite the fact that Black and Brown communities have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, after months of navigating complex appointment…

It was the first local film festival to go virtual at the outset of COVID-19 last March.

If you’re hankering to see a movie on the big screen in D.C. or Maryland, you’re in luck: AMC plans to reopen theaters in both areas soon.

More than 100 people protested anti-Asian violence in downtown D.C. on Wednesday night, blocking streets near Chinatown as they called on the city to disband a police unit that activists say has failed to address issues in the Asian…

Metro said Wednesday it has finalized a $2.2 billion contract with Hitachi Rail to build its next model of rail cars under a plan that calls for the company to build an assembly plant in the Washington region, possibly employing hundreds…

No crowd will gather for the traditional lighting of the 17-century stone lantern on the Tidal Basin this weekend, because Washington’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival will be online. But the flame is far from the most interesting part of…

Goodbye Pennsylvania Avenue. Hello Pennsylvania.

As a child, Agnes Lee was taught to be fearful of the police and of airports. She didn’t understand why until her mother shared a family secret when Lee began applying to college. Lee and her parents had been living illegally in the United…

D.C. activists led a demonstration Wednesday night in response to the mass killings of eight people, including six women of Asian decent, in three massage parlors in Georgia.

More than 1,000 D.C. teachers took an online survey in late January and early February asking how they and their students have handled the pandemic, and the results are in.