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Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.

What a battle about loud music on a D.C. corner tells us about gentrification, race, and the life of a city.

For nearly a quarter-century, the MetroPCS store on the corner of Florida Avenue and 7th Street in Northwest kept residents and passersby alike jamming to the sounds of go-go, over time solidifying its status as a staple of authentic,…

Georgetown University student activists are pushing to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves, one that would use a student fee to send a message that historical wrongs will not be forgotten — and to prod administrators to…

Family-Friendly Fete Includes Parade, Fireworks, Star-Studded Entertainment

An initiative to improve the health outcomes of Ward 7 and 8 residents seeks funds from the D.C. government to expand its work.

A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that a D.C. police officer and a U.S. Marshal groped a transgender man, fondled his genitals to “determine his anatomical gender,” and held him in lockup…

Georgetown University students are voting today on a proposed student fee that would benefit the descendants of slaves sold in 1838 to benefit the university.

As a third-grade teacher for D.C. Public Schools, Gary Hamilton wanted to be part of the community beyond his classroom.

Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) said he will stop his outside consulting and legal work, which has sparked an investigation into influence peddling by federal authorities and placed Evans at the center of an ethics scandal.

The long-shuttered hotel property on L’Enfant Plaza, now dubbed the Hilton Washington D.C. National Mall, has reopened after a closure of more than five years.

The parents of a 10-year-old D.C. girl who was shot and killed while walking to an ice cream truck last summer are suing the District.

The family of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson, who was fatally shot last year while heading to an ice cream truck, filed a lawsuit against the D.C. Housing Authority, alleging that it failed to provide adequate security at the public housing…

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced at a D.C. Superior Court hearing on Tuesday that they were dropping a charge of misdemeanor solicitation for prostitution against transgender activist Dee Curry.

The Board of Trustees would still need to approve the measure

Since D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office released the city’s first-ever Cultural Plan last week, artists and arts leaders have been poring over the 224-page document to see how the city plans to support them and their work.

Union Drinkery, a neighborhood bar by A&D and SUNdeVICH owner Ali Bagheri, will close on April 27. A new wine shop and bar called Saint Vincent will take its place in the fall, according to the Washington City Paper.

Happy Thursday. City Paper has a long-read cover story on DC’s child welfare system overseen by Child and Family Services Agency:

From D.C. to Dallas, cities are drafting documents to help protect their cultural resources from economic changes. But too often, these plans lack teeth.

The playground at Neval Thomas Elementary in Northeast D.C. looks like a lot of schools’. It has slides and monkey bars, but look at the asphalt around it, and you’ll see a new paint job that’s fun and functional.