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jonetta rose barras: AG Karl Racine wants a Civil Rights Division

jonetta rose barras Apr 18, 2019

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser isn’t the only elected official who has been expanding government territory. Attorney General Karl Racine hasn’t been anyone’s slouch. Since being sworn in as the city’s top lawyer in 2015, he has, among other…

Afro-American: D.C. to Selma: A Pilgrimage for the People

Editor Mar 9, 2019

On March 7, 1965 one of the most violent days of the Civil Rights Movement occurred as peaceful marchers were brutally attacked and beaten by state troopers and men as they tried to cross along the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma, AL to…

City Paper: A Recreation of Ben’s Chili Bowl Is Coming to the Sundance Film Festival

Editor Jan 11, 2019

When Frank Smith was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta during the civil rights era, he often drove across the south to take part in various rallies and campaigns. Of course, traveling meant risking bloodshed—or sometimes even…

Arts and Culture

‘Jim Crow Capital’ explores role of African-American women in DC in early civil rights…

Lee Cannon Jan 2, 2019

A new book from historian Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy reveals how African-American women used the national and international platform of the nation’s capital to press the struggle for civil rights forward. In Jim Crow Capital: Women and…

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District Links: Council eyes revisions to Schools First budget approach; Trump faults regional leaders’ response…

Feb 17, 2026 8

The DC Council is advancing a bill to modify aspects of the Schools First budgeting approach established by lawmakers in 2022 in an effort to provide greater stability in school budgets and staffing.…

District Links: DC warns against Potomac River contact amid calls for stronger response to sewage overflows; Trayon…

Feb 13, 2026 23

As DC Water crews continue to work on repairs and containment efforts at the site of a collapsed section of the Potomac Interceptor sewage pipe, the DC Department of Energy and Environment is warning…

jonetta rose barras: Heavy doses of fiscal fantasy in DC politics

Feb 13, 2026 1,099

Earlier this week, during a breakfast meeting with members of the DC Council, Mayor Muriel Bowser and senior managers of her administration reported on the dismal state of the District’s current and…

District Links: Senate votes 49-47 to void DC’s tax decoupling bill; Doni Crawford files to run in special…

Feb 12, 2026 115

The U.S. Senate voted 49-47 along party lines this afternoon to disapprove DC Council legislation that had decoupled the local tax code from multiple provisions in last year's GOP-backed tax changes…

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