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The children marching for Davon McNeal through the darkened streets of historic Anacostia this week shouted, “Kids’ Lives Matter.” Adults implored the crowd: “What. Is. His. Name?” to a thunderous ovation of “Davon.”

Hundreds of family, friends, and supporters gathered in Anacostia on Thursday to honor and remember 11-year-old Davon McNeal, who was shot and killed during a Fourth of July celebration in Cedar Gardens, where he used to live.

After what appeared to be a popular pilot program in late June, the Adams Morgan streatery will not close to traffic again through the course of the pandemic.

TGIF. After independent at-large Council member David Grosso called for the ousting of Police Chief Peter Newsham, Mayor Muriel Bowser yesterday defended DC's top cop and called Grosso a "lame duck."

School leaders across the D.C. region are scrambling to prepare classrooms for students in the fall.

“He just was at the wrong place at the wrong time.” That’s simply not true. Eleven-year-old Davon McNeal was at the right place, and at the right time. What’s more, he was doing the right thing.

Toddlers don’t come to Ilumi Sanchez with questions about world geography or algebra. They mostly want hugs, snacks and playtime in a nurturing environment. For more than a decade, Sanchez has exceeded expectations at her home-based…

As protests against police violence picked up steam nationwide in early June, one of the consistent demands from Black Lives Matter demonstrators came in three words: Defund the police.

This was an ill-fated year almost from the start, but on Thursday, locals noted on Twitter that plenty of places in D.C. were giving off bad vibes well before 2020.

At Capital City Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, three students’ parents have died after contracting the coronavirus. Many more grandparents and relatives of the school’s nearly 1,000 students, most of whom are black or…