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Happy Thursday. DC has seen 14 days of sustained reductions in community spread of COVID-19, health officials reported this morning. That's one of the key metrics being used to determine whether the District is ready to move to Phase Two…

Two weeks after winning the Ward 2 primary election, political newcomer Brooke Pinto has declared victory again—this time in the special election to fill the Ward 2 seat.

How to spend the holiday, either marching in the street or online from home.

After weeks of protests around the D.C. region, and across the U.S., in the wake of George Floyd’s police-custody death, the Million Moe March on Friday hopes to move forward toward ending systemic racism.

“God don’t like ugly,” my grandma, Ma Pearl, a washwoman with a third-grade education who raised me, would often say. She’d ask me to read the Bible to her, and I wouldn’t understand the passage. “Ma, do you know what does this mean?” I…

A new study from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition finds that D.C. ranked 13th on the list of “most intensely gentrified” cities across the country from 2013 to 2017, trailing behind San Francisco, Denver, Boston, Miami, New…

D.C. police Thursday announced possible street closures and restrictions for downtown Washington ahead of expected demonstrations Friday and into the weekend.

Three D.C. pastry chefs have launched an effort that’s become an international bake sale raising money for community nonprofits working against racism.

As D.C. heads into its fourth straight weekend of protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, demonstrators are planning to hit the streets again on Saturday and Sunday.