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Explaining race and racism can feel like a minefield for parents, but a world-renowned expert on the subject suited up for the daunting task at Anne Beers Elementary School in D.C. this week. The school, located in Ward 7’s Hillcrest…

If Adam Eidinger’s bitcoins weren’t tied up in a lawsuit in Japan, he says, he thought about funding this whole recall thing himself. But alas, they are. And the maximum allowed contribution to a recall campaign is $500 anyway. So he’ll…

The grass on the National Mall stands up to the foot traffic of roughly 36 million people a year. Tourists, protestors and recreational sports leagues trample the emerald turf on a regular basis. It’s the most visited national park in the…

The market in Southeast Washington where 15-year-old Maurice Scott was fatally shot is a regular stopping place for neighborhood teens. One of the slain youth’s teachers wanted to memorialize his best student with a mural on the outside…

At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.

U.S. Park Police officers on Monday arrested two members of the local LGBT protest group No Justice No Pride after they attempted to hang from two flagpoles in Freedom Plaza a large banner calling for decriminalization of sex work in D.C.…

More than 400,000 people are expected to turn out for D.C.’s Capital Pride Parade, festival and other events this weekend from the D.C. area and Mid-Atlantic region to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New…

At the request of gay Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Randy Downs, city officials have approved the installation of 20 rainbow and transgender flag banners to be hung from light poles along 17th Street, N.W. near Dupont…

DC Superior Court got a four-legged addition to its ranks on Wednesday, when two-year-old black Labrador Pepper started work in Magistrate Judge Mary Grace Rook’s courtroom.

As they prepare for a student-led march scheduled for Thursday afternoon, friends, family and members of the Somerset Prep DC Public Charter School community remember slain teenager Maurice Scott as an honor roll student and rising high…

In the weeks leading up to what would be an emotionally charged D.C. Council hearing, droves of community members took to group email lists, social media, local radio programs and the streets in support of a bill that would alleviate…

An ad hoc group of African-American entrepreneurs have organized to request the D.C. government produce a study on how many Black businesses and firms are getting city government contracts.

June 5, 2019 Contact: Jack Miller Norton Praises House Action on DREAMers, Pathway to Citizenship WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that House passage yesterday of the American Dream and Promise…

The 14th Street restaurant is done with declining sales and feuding with upstairs residents

The board of Monument Academy Public Charter School voted Tuesday to close the school at the end of the academic year — a stunning turn for a weekday boarding campus that has attracted big named-donors and received national attention for…

But Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration has touted the shrinking number of homeless families.

When it’s working, the multi-tiered cascading fountain at Meridian Hill Park is the longest of its kind in North America. But in recent years, it hasn’t been working all that frequently.

Starting next month, D.C. will begin collecting taxes from businesses to fund its new paid leave program, which is scheduled to go into effect next year. But some businesses say there’s been confusion about how the tax is being assessed.

Four days before he climbed aboard the airplane that would drop him over Nazi-occupied France, Pvt. Delmer D. Linaburg sent a letter to his mother back home in Winchester, Va.

Last summer, plans for an expanded Union Market were a bit in flux after a development partner dropped out. Now, as the city gears up for tennis atop the market building, EDENS is back with a new development partner and a new plan.