February is Black History Month in the United States. To celebrate, the annual DC Power anthology is returning once again ...

Jimmy Carter was honored at his state funeral in Washington, DC on Thursday. We think of Carter as the man from Plains, ...

Between 1933 and 1934, Houston enlisted an all-Black team of NAACP lawyers to represent ... while also bringing national attention to the case. Born in Washington D.C., Houston's legacy in the ...

St. Luke’s in Columbia Heights was DC’s first independent Black Episcopal church, built in the 1870s by minister and radical ...

The Washington, D.C. attorney general has ... and the Law,” there has been a long history of under-protection of Black lives. From the rape of enslaved and freed Black women in the antebellum ...

Nesmith native Denise Nesmith Washington has found national fame as The Hair Hat Lady. Her ornate synthetic hair hats and ...

Thousands are gathered in Washington DC to commemorate the 1963 ... and self-determination shaped history and brought us to this moment." "We are Black with a capital B," she said.

the history, give us the values and the symbols of our people,” she said. “I feel like I’m part of a continuum of those who felt the importance of that.” With the lighting of the black ...