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Downtown Washington blossomed into a rich celebration of black family and culture on Saturday, marking the sixth week of near-constant public expression in the District for racial justice.

The day after he was corralled by police onto a narrow street with no escape, arrested for breaking the District’s curfew while protesting the death of George Floyd, and then held for hours, Micah Scott woke up with one thing on his mind:…

On the outside wall of a building in Northeast Washington, a mural shows a dark-skinned man with light hair riding an electric bike. An American flag, secured to his torso with a chain, flows behind him.

When the United States celebrates its 244th birthday on Saturday, July 4, look for U.S. military aircraft to grace the skies of D.C. and Baltimore.

On April 14, 1876, Frederick Douglass arrived at the unveiling ceremony for the Emancipation Memorial, the statue now under attack by some protesters in Washington’s Lincoln Park.

Disagreement over the fate of a statue depicting Abraham Lincoln standing above a formerly enslaved man was the centerpiece of a Friday night protest on Capitol Hill.

It’s arrogant to think that the District somehow can avoid the public health disaster that is playing out in many states that have already reopened.

They know the only way they can sustain power is to give up on democracy.

D.C. officials on Wednesday will fence off Franklin Square to begin a year-long renovation of the park to make it “more user-friendly.” But the closure will also mean the displacement of the homeless men and women who sleep there.

Here I was thinking that all the rationales for voter suppression and denying representation (Is voting by mail good or to be forbidden at all costs? Is two senators for 700,000 people perfectly just or a terrible slight not to be borne?)…