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Something jumped out at me in the basement the other day. Usually it’s crickets that do that down there. This time it was a memory, a memory stirred by three tiny cardboard boxes.

Keeping local music venues alive in D.C. will require city funds, according to one coalition.

Protests continued in the nation’s capital Saturday for Deon Kay, a young Black man fatally shot by D.C. police this past week after officers saw a gun in his hand during a police chase.

As protests against police brutality and systemic racism filled streets across the country this summer, a group of Black prosecutors in the nation’s capital began thinking about how they, too, could take a stand.

Three days after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Deon Kay, a slew of protests, marches, and an emotional vigil unfolded across the District. Crowds marched and gathered throughout the day at Malcolm X Park, Dupont Circle, and at…

Movie theaters are starting to reopen with spread-out seating. College students, sometimes masked, have arrived on campuses. Empty schedules are filling up again with mostly outdoor dinner dates, family gatherings, church services and…

As it tends to do, inspiration came to Cierra Lynn Taylor in the form of a whim.

The D.C. Police Reform Commission grilled Chief Peter Newsham with questions surrounding the shooting of Deon Kay during an emergency virtual meeting on Friday.

In their second meeting on Friday evening, members of the newly created D.C. Police Reform Commission interrogated police chief Peter Newsham and Interim Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Roger Mitchell over the circumstances surrounding the…

“Long live my heart,” reads part of a memorial for 18-year-old Deon Kay, who a D.C. police officer fatally shot on Wednesday afternoon.

George Washington University’s history department plans to replace Jessica A. Krug, the associate professor who said she lied about being a Black woman, the department chair has confirmed.

A $32.8 million donation, the largest gift received by Howard University’s College of Medicine, will ease student loan debt and “produce more Black doctors,” officials announced this week.

TGIF. Yesterday’s release of police body-worn camera footage may have answered some questions about the shooting death of 18-year-old Deon Kay by a Metropolitan Police Department officer, but it has led to many more.

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Washington University is investigating the case of a history professor who allegedly admitted to fraudulently pretending to be a Black woman for her entire career.

The relatively new DC Council law requires footage to be released no later than five days after a shooting, pending family approval. Here's a look at the history.

The District is in the midst of a perfect storm. It arises from the convergence of a mayor struggling to cope with a covid-19 pandemic, a surge of violent crime, violence and a federally induced depressed economy; an anti-racism police…

And what is an "anarchist" city anyways?

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser suggested Friday she isn’t in any rush to lift any further coronavirus restrictions — for at least the next few months.

"They're portraying him as a man, but he was a kid. He was into tennis shoes and video games."

St. John's Church is having local artists paint on the plywood panels installed during the George Floyd protests