Protests

For eight minutes—a minute for each person killed in a traffic crash since the year began—hundreds of safety advocates blocked one of the city’s main thoroughfares.

The activists haven’t been home in two weeks.

D.C.’s Office of the Attorney General has dropped charges against 20 people arrested by the Secret Service outside the Danish Embassy on March 28, as they protested the construction of the Rockwool insulation factory in Jefferson County,…

If you passed by the pulsating intersection of Park and 14th Streets Northwest in Columbia Heights on April 5, you would have thought there was a block party. People with smiling faces were shouting and clapping to the sounds of…

The day it all began, in late March of last year, Kenneth Holmes had been at Howard University for about two years. During that time, Holmes, Howard’s vice president of student affairs, had spoken with students about their needs and…

The acting head of the National Park Service told Congress it could be three months before the agency decides whether to recover the costs of hosting thousands of protests held annually in the nation’s capital.

The National Park Service is parsing through a mountain of responses it received to a question it posed last year: Should the agency seek to recover the costs of supporting protests in Washington?

Eight organizations have joined forces against a National Park Service proposal that would require activists to pay the government back for the cost of protests and limit where in Washington demonstrators can gather.

More than two years after the mass arrest of protesters at President Trump’s inauguration, two federal prosecutors walked into a D.C. courtroom earlier this month in a little-noticed hearing and told a judge that their investigation had…

A week after police confiscated artist Robin Bell’s projection equipment and arrested one of his collaborators, the local visual artist has his equipment back and plans to get back in the game, stepping up the number of projections he’s…

In a city where protests are akin to a competitive — and sometimes combative — sport, Robin Bell has found a way to separate himself from the pack.

They took the Metro downtown and marched from White House to Capitol.

On Wednesday night, a collaborator of the artist Robin Bell, who has been projecting words and images onto D.C. buildings for years, was arrested by Capitol Police. Capitol Police also seized a projector, laptop computer, battery and stand…

Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds was 22 when she died at the hospital a week after being shot in Northeast D.C. Last week, after two years, a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of two men charged in connection with her death. A Superior…

Demonstrators say the judicial system doesn't seem to value the lives of transgender individuals

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the nation’s capital, it can be hard for protesters to stand out. A group of 50 people — or even 500 — holding signs and shouting hardly merits a second glance in this city of protests.

President Trump’s nominee to lead the National Park Service wouldn’t say Thursday whether he would support efforts to limit where protesters can rally and charge activists for the costs of securing large demonstrations.

The group that protested outside a Fox News host’s home is encouraging others to “confront at their homes!”

The first big lie of the Trump administration had to do with crowds and public space. The day after his Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration, Trump’s official spokesman cited incorrect numbers to back up the president’s claim that “like a million,…