Congress on Monday began to investigate tactics used by federal law enforcement officers to clear protesters near Lafayette Square ahead of President Trump’s photo op in front of the pale yellow facade of St. John’s Episcopal Church.
More than 18,000 people have signed an online petition urging D.C. Public Schools to rename Woodrow Wilson High School because of the former president’s advocacy of segregationist policies.
It seemed, at first, to be a routine goodwill gesture from a group of District residents delivering box lunches to D.C. police officers, who accepted the gifts and put their arms around participants for photos.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans a future headquarters move from Baltimore to D.C., with the civil rights group eventually relocating to a redeveloped Reeves Center at the heart of the U Street corridor.!-->…
Weeks after protesters were removed forcefully from Lafayette Square, witnesses testified before members of Congress to denounce the “aggressive tactics” used against demonstrators by U.S. Park Police and other federal agents.
Witnesses told members of Congress on Monday that law enforcement officers forcefully cleared out peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square near the White House earlier this month with little warning and indiscriminate attacks on some of!-->…
On Saturday evening, the Metropolitan Police Department published a seemingly innocuous tweet about a group of residents delivering lunch to officers in the Second District.
The D.C. Council is tinkering with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to incentivize the construction of affordable housing in the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods, aiming to strengthen affordability requirements and open the program to include!-->…
Johns Hopkins University completed on Monday the first part of its acquisition of the former Newseum complex at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, where it hopes to start work soon on a major overhaul of the property.
Nearly five years after an arts-focused boutique hotel was proposed next to Union Market, the development team has decided to take a different approach for the site.
Several local social justice organizations hosted a DC Excluded Workers rally Monday morning at Freedom Plaza in support of D.C. workers who are left out of key cash assistance programs, including sex workers, street vendors, and others in!-->…